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ASIC
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OMPOSITION
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TEPS
This section explains the steps involved in creating the composition screen shown at
the beginning of this chapter. Further details for each of the steps then follow.
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ACKGROUNDS
The background for a composition can be any of the following:
• A moving video sequence
• A still image (that is, a frozen frame from a video sequence)
• A solid color
• A set of color bars
As you’ll learn later in this chapter (under “Creating a Composed Image”), you must
establish the background
before entering Compose mode.
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Select the background. This example uses a still image of
a mountain range. You can use still images, moving video,
a solid color background, or color bars.
Create a solid color tile. This rectangle serves as a
background for the next element and separates it
from the main background image.
Create the next tile, which is a moving video of two
polar bears jousting.
Create another solid colored tile. You might eventually
Create one last solid color tile, but make it long and thin
so that it looks like a simple, wide line.
use this tile as a background for a text title.