Wanna Switch? - Lesson 5 - Effects & Titling

Kevin P. McAuliffe
Toronto Canada

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In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you Media Composer's "Go To" effect, the 3D Warp, and how easy it is to create basic titles for your sequence. Then, to wrap it all up, he shows a great and often overlooked feature of the basic title tool, that will have you staying in your NLE to do most of your titling effects.

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Re: Tutorial: Wanna Switch? - Lesson 5 - Effects & Titling
by Jeremy Cole

Question: I have the 5.5.2 trial.
I created a lower third in Marque, saved it to a bin, edited the title into my sequence and then tried to put a 'picture-in-picture' effect on it (slide in from the left). I got the 'Does not apply' error. I tried it a couple of times, double clicked on the timeline, opened the nested effect (title), closed it and then suddenly the 'picture-in-picture' effect worked. I tried repeating my actions on another lower third and I could not get the picture-in-picture effect to work. What is going on? Bug or user error?

Regards,
Jeremy

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Re: Tutorial: Wanna Switch? - Lesson 5 - Effects & Titling
by Jeremy Cole

Figured it out. Needed to promote the title to 3D. Then I could do the push on with ease.

Regards,
Jeremy

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