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Creating Vertical Effects
4. Ctrl+Shift+drag (Windows) or Command+Shift+drag (Macintosh) Clip
A to the original location of Clip B.
Creating a Picture-in-Picture Effect
We won’t have time to go into all the vertical effects Media Composer has
to offer, but to get you started, we will touch on one of the most popular: the
picture-in-picture (PIP) effect. A PIP allows you to layer two clips on top of
one another and adjust the size, position, and opacity of the top clips.
To create a two-layer PI P effect:
1. Edit the desired background clip onto V1.
2. Edit the desired foreground clip onto V2, directly above the back-
ground clip.
3. Open the Effect Palette.
4. Apply a Picture-in-Picture effect (Blend category) to the clip on V2.
5. Enter Effect mode, or switch to the Effects toolset.
Yo u c an c u s to m iz e t h e P I P i n m a ny w a y s . Fo r e x a m pl e, y ou c a n c r op t h e
edges, resize the foreground image, or move the PIP across the screen.
Practice Your Skills
1. If you performed the previous four exercises, you can use your own
sequence for this exercise. If you didn’t, open Dance Montage Effects
Part 3 into the Timeline to complete this section.
2. Press Ctrl+Y (Windows) or Command+Y (Macintosh) to add a video
track to this sequence.
3. Park the position indicator in the middle of the “Spanish dancers 2
MLS” clip, which is marked with a yellow locator.
4. Ctrl+click (Windows) or Command+click the head of this shot. Mark
an IN at this point.
5. Perform a match frame at this point by clicking the Match Frame but-
ton in the Tool palette or by pressing the key to which you mapped the
match frame.
Media Composer puts an IN point at the matched frame.
6. Patch V1 on the Source side to V2 on the Record side.
7. In the Timeline, select V2, and deselect V1 and A1.
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