Learn Media Composer Lesson 53: Animation Techniques: Lists
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 53: Animation Techniques: Lists

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_53 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to create a simple list, and animate it in your timeline. Most people get tripped up with which is the better way to do this technique, but Kevin shows your why you might want to consider the 3D tool, as it is simple to use,…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 52: Working with Photoshop Files
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 52: Working with Photoshop Files

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_52 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how easy it is to create, import and work with Photoshop files. There are a few options that come with importing graphics alone, and add in Photoshop files to the mix, and things can get tricky very quick. Kevin shows you the ropes so if creating…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 51: Decomposing
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 51: Decomposing

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_51 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer’s question where they have accidentally deleted footage from their sequence that they need, and they don’t have the master clips to go back and recapture/re-import. Is all lost? Not after watching this tutorial. Kevin shows you how easy it is to not only get your…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 50: Transfer Modes
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 50: Transfer Modes

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_50 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer question about the ability to do transfer modes (composite modes) inside of MC and Symphony 6. The viewer is currently using a free plug-in with MC 5.5, but since the plug-in is 32-bit, it won’t work inside of MC6/Symphony 6, as they are 64 bit…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 49: Advanced Marquee Techniques
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 49: Advanced Marquee Techniques

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_49 Advanced Marquee Techniques PART 6: In this last lesson in our almost 3 hour in-depth look at the Marquee Title Tool, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about lighting in your Titling scenes, and goes into great detail on light types, light manipulation and shows you how to set-up realistic looking lighting scenarios in the Marquee…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 48: Advanced Marquee Techniques
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 48: Advanced Marquee Techniques

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_48 Advanced Marquee Techniques Part FIVE: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about applying textures to your text, he shows you why seamlessly tileable elements are the way to go, and even how to manipulate your textures, once they have been applied. Finally, he wraps things up by showing you how easy it is…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 47: Advanced Marquee Techniques
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 47: Advanced Marquee Techniques

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_47 Advanced Marquee Techniques Part FOUR: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe expands on his Title Roll lesson (Advanced Marquee Technique #3), and shows how you would go about integrating client logos into your title rolls and crawls. Again, this is a technique that is normally done outside of Media Composer or Symphony, but as…

Animate Effects Across Multiple Clips with Beat Reactor
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Animate Effects Across Multiple Clips with Beat Reactor

Watch Kevin P. McAuliffe take an audio clip and automatically animate Boris Continuum Complete’s Film Glow effect to music using the built-in Beat Reactor. Many BCC effects integrate Beat Reactor and this tutorial shows you how to easily create animation as well as a neat trick to ensure that the effect animates evenly across three…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 46: Advanced Marquee Techniques
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 46: Advanced Marquee Techniques

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_46 Advanced Marquee Techniques, Part THREE: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewers e-mail about Title Rolls and Crawls. He starts out in the standard title tool, and then shows you how simple it is to create the same crawl in Marquee. Finally, he takes it up a notch, and shows you how…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 45: Advanced Marquee Techniques
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 45: Advanced Marquee Techniques

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_45 Advanced Marquee Techniques, Part TWO: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how simple it is to create a complex animation inside of Marquee in a matter of minutes, when creating the same look in After Effects or a 3D application could take hours. No other applications are used here, just Marquee, and…

Avid Media Composer: Batch Importing
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Avid Media Composer: Batch Importing

library.creativecow.net/hancock_michael/Avid-Media-Composer_Batch This tutorial for Avid Media Composer/Symphony covers the basics of batch importing in Avid, and includes replacing a file with another file so it will auto-update across sequences, renaming clips in your bin then finding the original imported file name, batch importing with an alpha channel, importing a file with audio then replacing only…

Learn Media Composer Lesson 44: Advanced Marquee Techniques
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Learn Media Composer Lesson 44: Advanced Marquee Techniques

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_44 Advanced Marquee Techniques: Part ONE: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to take a complex looking scene, and create it very easily within the Marquee interface. This tutorial is normally something that can only be done in a compositing application, but with the power of Marquee, and a little forward thinking,…

Avid DS Introduction to LUTs Part 1 of 2
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Avid DS Introduction to LUTs Part 1 of 2

The proliferation of digital camera formats over the last decade has introduced entirely new color management concepts into a once straightforward editorial color pipeline. Although this tutorial by Igor Ridanovic of HDhead.com looks at Avid DS specific color management tools, it also lays down the basic groundwork necessaryto understand lookup tables (LUTs) and their use…