Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 3 – AD’s Media Copy
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 3 – AD’s Media Copy

ByFreddy

In this lesson, in our final look at archiving in Avid Media Composer, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about another third party utility to consider when you’re looking for an archiving utility, and that is Automatic Duck Media Copy. This simple to use, yet very powerful app will have you archiving your media composer timelines in…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 2 – Media Mover
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 2 – Media Mover

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about a third party utility to archive your projects called Media Mover. Whether you want to archive your entire sequence (all media), or everything in your project (Media, Precomputes, etc), Media Mover will make your life super simple with its easy to use interface, and it’s lightning fast…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 1
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 1

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about how to archive your project in Avid Media Composer. There are Third Party utilities on the market, but if you’re on a budget, you can successfully back up a sequence to an external hard drive on your own, with this straightforward tutorial!

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding? Part 3: 2K/4K/UHD
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding? Part 3: 2K/4K/UHD

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe finishes his in-depth look at Transcoding by talking about working with larger than HD material. There are so many factors to keep in mind such as Source Settings, Proxy Timelines and Timeline Quality. This lesson will make sure you’re transcoding your larger than HD footage correctly every time!

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding Part 1: Under The Hood
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding Part 1: Under The Hood

ByFreddy

In this week’s lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe looks at the process of Transcoding. The first lesson in Transcoding focuses on the Linked to clips in your bins, and shows you how many “under the hood” features need to be considered and adjusted, before you can do the actual transcoding.

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Consolidating?
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Consolidating?

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about the most asked question he receives. What is the difference between Transcoding and Consolidating? Consolidating is up first, and Kevin gives you three examples of where you’re going to use Consolidating in your Media Composer workflows.

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 5
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 5

ByFreddy

In the last lesson in our look at editing Music Video, we talk about how to stylize your footage, without having to go to Adobe’s After Effects. Using some simple color correction, Animatte, and a couple of BCC Lite effects that, if you’re on the Media Composer Subscription plan, you get for free, you can…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 4
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 4

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at editing Music videos by starting to talk about effects work in your music video timeline. Transitions play a big part in the editorial process, and sometimes you need to use a program like AE to create transitions, or buy them from a third-party company. In…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 3
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 3

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe goes back to Basics with learning Multicamera editing, and talks about the ins and outs you’ll need to know to get up and editing with this technique quickly and easily. He looks at syncing your footage via Timecode or In points, and then dives into showing you how to…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 2
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 2

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at editing Music videos by talking about syncing up your footage to prep it for Multicamera editing inside of Media Composer. We take a look at Pluraleyes, a third party utility designed specifically for syncronizing non-timecoded clips, and the advantages and disadvantages of using this workflow….

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 1
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 1

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives an introductory look at editing Music Videos, and shows you how to get your project organized inside and outside of Media Composer. He also talks about getting your footage into Media Composer, and transcoding it, so it’s all ready to go. Music Video footage in this tutorial is…