Video Editing and Special Effects for Beginner-Advanced

Learn basic video editing with Edius X Pro from Grass Valley in this quick introduction, highlighting a fast, reliable workflow and a lifetime one-time license around $499.

Organize your video editing projects with named folders for video clips, audio, music, and photos, and choose a monitor with color accuracy and readable text for 4k or full hd.

Arrange and customize Edius X Pro window layouts for faster editing, snapping edges, and creating tabs, then adjust project presets, hardware devices, playback buffers, and user interface options.

Explore timeline fundamentals by managing video, audio, and text tracks, inserting or overwriting clips, snapping, muting, and using shortcuts such as home, end, delete, ctrl+z, and spacebar.

Import media into the bin, place clips on the VA timeline, unlink audio, trim to 10 seconds, apply 2D dissolve transitions, add AI voice with video and motion graphics.

Master fast editing with transitions, dissolves, and frame-level trimming using keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Z, C, and V. Snap motion graphics to markers, adjust the timeline, and undo changes easily.

Practice exercise in text fx teaches creating, positioning, and resizing title text with edge and shadow edits. Convert text to video to apply motion graphics and a variety of transitions.

Apply transitions at clip edges and use video filters on the clip to craft text fx in Edius X Pro. Drag text to the V track and test color correction.

Master keyframe concepts for motion graphics by animating a photo from off-screen left to off-screen right using two keyframes on a short background video.

Learn to use keyframes for stretch and rotate effects across a timeline, with five keyframes guiding background audio, motion graphics, and foreground video.

Practice a 3d keyframe text effect using five keys to stretch and rotate text, center it on the track, and convert the result into video with a background motion graphic.

Learn green screen basics by applying chroma key to remove the green background, replace it with a motion graphic background video, and fine-tune keyer settings such as power and range.

Add a 3d track and place a motion graphic as a background, then apply chroma key to two dancing clips, adjust power, range, and detail, crop and preview.

Practice green screen compositing by layering a computer monitor video over a background, applying chroma key, then resizing and repositioning to fine-tune the key strength and range.

Blend two video clips by adding a third track, layering motion graphics, trimming excess, and matching edges while adjusting source opacity to 50% for a blended preview.

Record your voice using the Klar vocal plugin and apply Wave Shell vocal effects in real time via the VST. Try presets and save your settings for future projects.

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Learn essential image formats for video editing, including jpeg and png with transparent backgrounds, and apply motion graphics, text animation, and keyframes to craft an 8-second sequence.

Learn to create professional broadcast quality special effects in Adobe After Effects, using Storyblocks templates, replacing media, fitting to composition, editing text, and rendering in full HD 1920 by 1080.

Learn to use Adobe After Effects templates on Windows, install QuickTime, replace media, adjust text, and render 1080p h264 video via render queue.

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