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Media Composer

Smart Tool – Avid Media Composer® 5 Overview

A subtle but very important change to Media Composer 5 is the addition of the Link Selection Tool as well as the Smart Tool editing palette. Historically in Media Composer, to make adjustments to a segment or transition, you would have to enter a specific mode. Now with the Smart Tool, depending where your cursor

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Waving Flag in Avid DS

Learn how to create a stylized 3D billowing flag in Avid DS. This effect is useful for lower thirds, backgrounds and other graphic elements. The tutorial comes with a free downloadable preset available at hdhead.com. By Igor Ridanovic. HDhead.com.

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Avid DS Tutorial – Edge Blur with Custom Sliders

Learn how to create an edge blur preset for Avid DS with expressions and custom sliders. Nice to have around for green screen compositing or to soften anything containing an alpha channel. Follow along to build the preset, save it, and then drop it into any effects tree with an alpha channel for fast and

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Avid DS Tutorial – Doing Text FAST

Tutorial explaining hotkeys, shortcuts, and best practices for creating and editing text in the graphics module within Avid DS, all the while seeing real-time feedback on your broadcast monitor for immediate WYSIWYG.

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Media Composer

Magic Mask Effect for Avid Media Composer

Learn how to use the magic mask effect in Avid Media Composer to create an effect similar to the Pleasantville effect. You can view a full text transcript of this tutorial by visiting: http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2011/01/magic_mask_in_avid_media_c…

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Avid Screencast #49: Sports Trailer Look

This week, another viewer suggestion: We’ll create the high-contrast, saturated look that is common to many sports trailers. We’ll also play around with BCC’s Glow and add some flicker to the shots.  

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #47: Audio Basics VII – Audio Effects

In this last episode in the audio series, I’ll show you how to apply audio effects in Media Composer and a couple of neat real-world tips (like limiting you master output) that will hopefully help you out one day or another.   This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct links

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