How to Match Colour Between Two Clips
Two shots that were fine separately look wrong next to each other. How to fix it with your eyes, and how to fix it with scopes when your eyes lie.
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Effects & colour
Colour grading, background removal without a green screen, transitions, blur, vignette and film grain - the looks that make a video feel finished.
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How to Apply an Effect to Only Part of the Frame
Masks let a blur, a grade or a glow affect one region instead of everything. Where the feather setting matters more than the shape.
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When to Use a Transition, and When to Just Cut
Most videos have transitions in the wrong places. A simple rule about what a transition means, and the three cases where a plain cut is always better.
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How to Add a Camera Move to a Static Video
A locked-off shot of a person talking reads as a paused video. A slow push-in fixes it, costs nothing, and is invisible when done at the right speed.
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How to Add the Ken Burns Effect to a Photo in a Video
The slow pan and zoom that makes a still photo work in a video. The two rules that separate it from a photo that just moves around.
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Does a Camera Move Help or Distract?
Movement is not automatically better. A short test for whether a move is doing work, and the specific cases where holding still is the stronger choice.
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How to Make a Replaced Background Look Real
Cutout edges are only half the problem. The two lighting cues that make a composite read as a person in a room rather than a sticker on a picture.
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How to Animate a Text Highlight in a Video
Marker sweeps, underline draws and box traces explained: what each shape says, the timing that makes them read, and how to add one without keyframes.
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Why does video background removal look bad when I move?
The halo, the flicker and the chunk of wall that follows your hand: what each artifact actually is, and the four fixes that remove it for good.
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How to Color Grade Phone Video to Look Cinematic
The warm, gently contrasty look that reads as finished, the intensity setting almost everyone gets wrong, and a two-minute workflow you can repeat.
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How to Add Transitions Between Video Clips (and When Not To)
Cut, cross dissolve, whip pan, zoom: what each one signals, the duration to set, the exact steps to add it, and the four times to use none at all.
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How to Remove a Video Background Without a Green Screen (2026)
How AI matting replaces a green screen, which removal tools upload your footage and which do not, and a five-step workflow for a clean talking-head cutout.
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How to Add a Vignette and Film Grain to a Video on Mac
A vignette pulls the eye to the centre and grain hides digital flatness. How to add both on macOS at strengths a viewer will never consciously notice.
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How to Color Grade a Video on Mac (LUTs Made Simple)
Fix exposure and white balance first, then apply a look and dial it back. Grading on macOS with presets, an intensity slider and live scopes.
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