OK; many thanks.

I better look for a video showing how to do this. I tried it before but found the user interface completely impenetrable.

I do it every day. If I can do it, you can do it. I'll add it to my list of things to illustrate. It's a long list and I'm not even working it at the moment.

Well, I did it! I managed to taper down the contrast from 0.15 to 0, and at the same time taper down the blue reduction from -0.03 to zero (Sony Colour Balance FX).

This is great stuff. I just hope I can remember how I did it for next time :)

You are right; one may need more than the two key frames, but I think two will do this job since the haze is pretty well related to altitude, until you get to some point which is above it completely.

I did it in this video

https://vimeo.com/238443928

and it is most effective during the descent, which starts around 19:00.

Thank you again for your help.

That worked out great, Peter. Well Done!

Since my wife and I can't seem to agree on when we will decorate for Halloween, I watched your video in its entirety. The difference in haze seemed to be under control with the changes you made.

General Comments:

1) The map with the flight route might have been more helpful to the viewer if you had shown it earlier rather than at the end. Folks in California are not as familiar with that geography.

2) The graphic at 25:57 could have been moved to one side and reduced in size slightly (using Pan/Crop or Track Motion) not to obliterate the actual terrain. Or a 50/50 split screen could have been effective while maintaining the focus on the actual view. An Example:

3) Ten days ago I didn't know what a "localizer" was. I still don't understand 70% of the chatter on the radio.

4) Though I'm curious about most technical things, and aviation is one of them, I'm unlikely to take flying lessons at this stage of my life. I have a friend who flew small planes for pleasure in the central valley of California and later moved to the Rocky Mountains outside of Colorado Springs. When I visited him at his new home, he looked out his living room window and mentioned to me that he now lives higher than he used to fly in California.

Thank you for the very helpful input :)

Yes the maps should appear earlier.

I have been unable to place graphics into the corners. The controls seem to implement a "crop frame" around 30% and 70% from the left. The only way I have managed it in the past is by placing the graphic on its own track and using the track's Track Motion to do it. Obviously I am missing something but I spent ages on it, without success. I don't know why it is so difficult to just drop in a graphic, size it, and drop it anywhere within the frame (just like one can so easily do in any pic editing app) without it getting cropped by some invisible crop function which seems impossible to switch off.

A localiser is a radio beam transmitted from the runway, up the approach path, which in conjunction with a receiver in the aircraft provides left/right guidance. There is a similar thing which does it vertically (a glideslope) but this airport doesn't have that. Yes the radio quality is poor. My mp3 recorder was saturating (I can fix that easily by reducing the level and then normalising it all with a sound editor), and the general quality is poor due to the AM system used in aviation. Much ATC equipment is of poor quality too. The language used is also specialised... it's not really English, and often it is so heavily accented almost nobody can understand it.

You are never too old to start :) I started at 43 and am now 60. Aviation is full of older guys - the younger ones rarely have the time *and* the money :)

Now that you're an expert at using key frames, reverse engineer this project to learn how to resize graphics and move them on and off the screen until your heart's content. Once  you get the hang of it, you'll be doing it in less than a New York Minute.  

Extra Credit

I do waaaaay more of this kind of stuff than a rational human should so I usually build these graphics into a separate project and then drop that project onto a separate track in my main project. That's called "nesting".  Notice the media on the track in this picture is actually a Vegas project?