How to Record a Voice Over in Avid
This video will show you how to record voice over in Avid using the Audio Punch In Tool
How to simply reset Avid Permissions
This video will show you how to reset Avid if you’re having a performance issues. Using MCState and Media Database file reset
How to work with LUTs (Lookup Tables) – Avid Media Composer Tutorial
LUTs (Lookup Tables) can be helpful and are sometimes necessary to convert Log footage into Rec 709 or other more dynamic color spaces. In this Avid Media Composer Tutorial I demonstrate how to apply LUTs to your source footage, bake it into your clips and ways to apply LUTs just within your timeline. Chapters: 0:09…
5 ways to lay out your scene bins in Avid Media Composer
Hey Guys! This one is taking a de-tour from technical stuff to take a look at 5 different ways to lay out your rushes bins for prior to cutting. This is one of the core things you’ll do when starting out as an assistant and one of the things your Editor may appreciate the most…
Making DNx Proxies for Avid MC in DaVinci Resolve
Hey Guys! This one is just to cover making DNx transcodes for Avid in DaVinci Resolve. I’ve seen a bunch of people run into issues with this in the forums if they’ve never done it before. So this will take you through the whole thing. Applying LUTs, making sure metadata is intact, even creating ALEs…
Six AWESOME features of Avid Media Composer
Love it or hate it, Avid Media Composer is the dominant editing platform for film and television. It’s used in edit suites from New Zealand, to the UK, to Germany and the USA (I’ve worked in 3 of those, guess which!). Yet despite it being so widely used there are a number of REALLY amazing…
Avid Media Composer and macOS: What the removal of QuickTime and Title Tool mean for your workflow
Beginning with Media Composer 2023.12, import and batch reimport now use UME and no longer require linking and transcoding! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms-zN-aLars&t=495s Aside from the above change to importing, information in video is current as of Avid Media Composer 2023.12 Many editors looking to make the jump to a new Mac are baffled by the fact that…
What’s new in Media Composer 2022.7?
Hey Guys, thanks for watching. Some nice new (if subtle) additions to Avid Media Composer in 2022.7
10 Fixes For when Avid isn’t working
Hey Guys! Thank-you so much for watching!! You can treat this video as an FAQ of common support tips for Avid Media Composer. These are the most common fixes to various problems I could find and they have got my Avid back up and running in no time on countless occasions so I really hope…
9 More AWESOME features of Avid Media Composer
Hey Guys, so since easily the most popular video so far was the first one going through some great features that may not be well-known in media composer, I decided to go for round 2! I’ve gathered a further 9 very useful features that some other Editors and Assistants have told me they didn’t previously…
Meet the new Avid Media Composer!
While it has been three years now, there are still many who have yet to make the jump from the old Avid Media Composer UI (2018 versions and earlier) to the “new” UI (2019.6 and later) and for perfectly valid reasons. There’s always issues with being an early adopter. Though now many post production facilities…
Best features of the new Avid (added between 2019.6 and 2020.4)
This is a video highlighting and demonstrating my top 14 best features to have debuted since Avid changed the Media Composer UI (and code/engine/overhaul) back in 2019 with the release of 2019.6 up to current version at time of recording 2022.4 Thanks Everyone for watching!! Got more content coming soon (working on a long-form series…
Scripting Macros in Keyboard Maestro (macOS)
Thanks Everyone for watching!! Macros are a huge part of my workflows these days and have honestly saved me countless hours at this point! I’ve put together a whole variety of these scripts to deal with specific problems and workflow scenarios. I truly hope this video convinces at least one person to look into it…
Meet the new Avid Media Composer!
While it has been three years now, there are still many who have yet to make the jump from the old Avid Media Composer UI (2018 versions and earlier) to the “new” UI (2019.6 and later) and for perfectly valid reasons. There’s always issues with being an early adopter. Though now many post production facilities…
Meet the new Avid Media Composer!
While it has been three years now, there are still many who have yet to make the jump from the old Avid Media Composer UI (2018 versions and earlier) to the “new” UI (2019.6 and later) and for perfectly valid reasons. There’s always issues with being an early adopter. Though now many post production facilities…
