Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Chroma keying Part 1 – Garbage Mattes
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Chroma keying Part 1 – Garbage Mattes

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe beings a multi part lesson on Chromakeying inside of Media Composer. Lesson One looks at a concept that’s very important when keying, and that is Garbage Matting. A Garbage Matte is essential to creating great keys, and Media Composer has a fantastic tool to create them – Animatte. Channel:…

Recreating a Camera Racking In and Out of Focus Inside Boris Red in Avid Media Composer
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Recreating a Camera Racking In and Out of Focus Inside Boris Red in Avid Media Composer

This tutorial will explain how you can properly recreate a camera racking in and out of focus using Boris Red in Avid Media Composer! Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 http://redarrowindustries.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndustries/

Continuum 11: VR Unit for Avid Media Composer
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Continuum 11: VR Unit for Avid Media Composer

New in Boris Continuum 11 is the VR Unit. 5 new filters, optimized for 360 video editing and finishing tasks inside of Avid Media Composer. The VR Unit includes: VR Blur, VR Sharpen, VR Reorient, VR Insert and VR Flicker Fixer. These new filters support mono & stereoscopic 360 formats such as top/bottom. For more…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer | First – Lesson 7 – Working in the Composer Window
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer | First – Lesson 7 – Working in the Composer Window

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe introduces you to the Composer window, inside of Media Composer First, and shows you how you can get more information from you clips, than you ever thought you would need. He also throws in a great quick tip at the end on Subclipping, and how you can easily do…

Assigning Shortcuts to Mouse Buttons in Avid Media Composer
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Assigning Shortcuts to Mouse Buttons in Avid Media Composer

Are you using your mouse to its fullest potential? Watch this tutorial to see a quick way to assign shortcuts to your mouse buttons in Avid Media Composer! Software used: Media Composer 8.5.1 http://redarrowindustries.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndustries/

Creating A Photo Move Using Consecutively Taken Photos Inside Boris Red in Avid Media Composer
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Creating A Photo Move Using Consecutively Taken Photos Inside Boris Red in Avid Media Composer

This tutorial will explain how you can create a simple, smooth photo move using consecutively taken photos, or photos on a burst setting in Boris Red in Avid Media Composer! Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 http://redarrowindustries.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndustries/  

Setting Up Email Notifications in Avid Media Composer
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Setting Up Email Notifications in Avid Media Composer

Today’s tutorial will show you how to use a little known Media Composer feature to setup user specific email notifications to notify you upon the completion of renders, exports and/or transcodes and consolidations. Software used: Media Composer 8.5.1 http://redarrowindustries.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndustries/

Dynamic Shuttle feature added in Media Composer 8.9.3
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Dynamic Shuttle feature added in Media Composer 8.9.3

My team and I worked on a couple of features in 8.9.3, “dynamic shuttle”, which is a J/K/L replacement, and “pitch correction during shuttle”. This video describes both in some detail.(Sorry about the length, it’s almost ten minutes and wanders off for a while showing how “dynamic shuttle” can be used to improve the behavior…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Basic Screen Replacements
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Basic Screen Replacements

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about another common task that editors are asked to do all the time, and that is replace a screen in a shot with another image. As much as a task like this can be done in Media Composer, there are many situations you can run into, that will…

How to Create Quick and Easy Photo Movements inside Boris Red in Avid Media Composer
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How to Create Quick and Easy Photo Movements inside Boris Red in Avid Media Composer

This tutorial will explain how to properly ingest photos and use them to create quick and easy movements inside Boris Red in Avid Media Composer. Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 http://redarrowindustries.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndustries/

The Power of Mark IN & OUT in Avid Media Composer
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The Power of Mark IN & OUT in Avid Media Composer

Believe it or not, the Mark IN & OUT button in Avid Media Composer doesn’t serve only one purpose. Check out this tutorial to find out its other uses! Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 https://redarrowindustries.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndustries/ https://twitter.com/redarrowindust

How to Insert Video in Text in Avid Media Composer
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How to Insert Video in Text in Avid Media Composer

Don’t have Boris or After Effects? Or do you just want a cool render-free title effect? If so, this tutorial will show you how to put video in your text using the Title Tool in Avid Media Composer. Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 https://redarrowindustries.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndustries/ https://twitter.com/redarrowindust