Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Motion Effects Part 1
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Motion Effects Part 1

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe starts the first of a multi-part lesson on creating Motion Effects, and starts out by creating them the easiest, but not necessarily the most obvious way, and that is via the Motion Effect command. This command, accessible only when the preview monitor or clip is selected will get you…

How to Create a Custom Grunge Textured Background in Avid Media Composer | Sapphire
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How to Create a Custom Grunge Textured Background in Avid Media Composer | Sapphire

In this Sapphire video effect tutorial, learn how to create your own unique and custom grunge backgrounds quickly and easily. This video tutorial shows you how to make your own customized grunge background. This cool and edgy video effect works especially great as a background or texture for title sequences, or for simply creating an…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Source Browser In-Depth
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Source Browser In-Depth

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe goes in-depth with the new Source Browser import/linking tool inside of Media Composer 8.6. Not only does he give you the in’s and out’s of this awesome new feature, but he also shows you how working with elements from Rampant Design Tools have become super easy, not only with…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – BCC Remover & Mocha BCC
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – BCC Remover & Mocha BCC

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at a common situation that editors run into, and that’s when a producer/director asks them to remove an element from a shot. Whether it’s a sign on a wall, or even a boat on an empty ocean, this is a fairly simple task, assuming the footage…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Audio Ducking In-Depth
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Audio Ducking In-Depth

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a great viewer question about Audio Ducking, and whether it’s possible to drop super long VO’s into your timelines, with no editing done to them, and still work with Audio Ducking, or is it based on the in and out points of edited VO’s in your timelines. Kevin…

Tracking Options for Avid Users: BCC 10 & mocha Pro plug-in
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Tracking Options for Avid Users: BCC 10 & mocha Pro plug-in

Colorist & finishing artist Dan Harvey shows Boris Continuum Complete + Avid Media Composer users the main differences between three different types of motion tracking available through Boris FX and Imagineer Systems. Part I. Covers the point motion tracker built into BCC for simple motion tracking tasks. Part II. Covers the integrated mocha/BCC Pixel Chooser…

Quick Tip: Wide Angle Lens Correction with BCC 10 plug-ins inside Avid Media Composer
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Quick Tip: Wide Angle Lens Correction with BCC 10 plug-ins inside Avid Media Composer

BCC Lens Correction is a plug-in designed to the remove lens distortion introduced by wide angle lens, fish eye lenses, and GoPro cameras. Freelance Editor Nathan Ryan shows Continuum Complete 10 and Avid Media Composer users how to easily fix and fine tune distortion, warp, and perspective issues using the new Lens Correction filter. Footage…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Working with LUT’s
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Working with LUT’s

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about working with Look Up Tables (LUT’s) inside of Media Composer. They’re not as simple to get installed in Media Composer as they are in other applications, as they are treated more like AMA Linked to parameters, as opposed to effects, but once installed, they can be worked…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – What’s New in 8.6
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – What’s New in 8.6

The new 8.6 release of Avid Media Composer is here, and there’s a lot to be excited about!  The Source Browser is the most prominent new feature, and it will change the way you source, link to and import media.  Gone are the days of importing or linking to tons of clips to find the…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Clip & Interface Color Options
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Clip & Interface Color Options

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about color. The color of your bins, the color of your Project window, and even the color of your timeline window, and how to adjust them. Then, it’s onto talking about how to adjust the clip colors in your timeline, which will give you an extra layer of…

Avid-Powered Post at Warrior Poets
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Avid-Powered Post at Warrior Poets

Discover how Avid shared storage and the Avid Artist | DNxIO video interface provide Warrior Poets with the cutting-edge workflows they need to produce the high-quality and engaging content that audiences demand. Production teams can access and share media instantly, work with media in any resolution, and turn around demanding projects fast. And thanks to…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – MDV Media Management Utility
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – MDV Media Management Utility

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at a great FREE utility for both Mac and Windows Media Composer editors that let’s you mange your media quickly and easily. MDV always used to be a difficult program to track down on the internet, but now it’s creator (DJFio) has made the application not…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – BCC Pan & Zoom
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – BCC Pan & Zoom

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe steps up his Pan & Zoom game by looking at BCC’s Pan & Zoom effect, which is a major step up from the Avid Pan & Zoom effect in Media Composer. With the ability to auto-animate your Pan & Zooms, add vignettes, and utilize 3D rotations (to name a…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – 4KFree.com
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – 4KFree.com

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives Avid Media Composer editors the scoop on anther great, FREE resource, and that is http://rampantdesigntools.com/free-download-sign, from Rampant Design Tools. 4KFree.com will give you almost 100 free elements from across the Rampant Design Tools library, which will take any project you’re working on to the next level! http://www.provideocoalition.com/kmcauliffe/

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Custom Transitions
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Custom Transitions

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to create a custom transition to work with in your project. Not only can you create your own transitions quickly and easily, but you can also save them to bins, to apply to other transitions in your current project, or add that bin to your “Favorite…