Avid DS Media Purging
This is a boring subject but a necessary one. When you fill up your storage with beautiful pictures you will eventually need to delete some media too. Igor Ridanovic covers several basic ways of media purging in Avid DS.
Product Designer Series: Media Composer® and Artist Color
Correcting color can have you seeing red—literally—when working with a keyboard and mouse alone. With Artist Color, you get the precision and hands-on control you need to fix and enhance color to perfection. And you can keep your eyes on the picture instead of monitoring the interface. Get an in-depth walkthrough of the surface in…
What’s new with Media Composer 6 (2 hours!)
Corey Tedrow, Product Specialist at Avid, reviews what’s new with Media Composer 6, a fast and versatile solution for professional video editing with a 64-bit app for better performance and speed, Open I/O to facilitate 3rd party hardware, easy integration into any ProRes workflow, the ability to instantly access, screen and edit AVCHD clips and…
Media Composer® 6 – Understanding 3D Terminology
With Stereoscopic filmmaking comes an entirely new set of creative techniques, rules and editing practices. Media Composer 6 includes a powerful, integrated stereoscopic workflow. In our free tutorial videos on Avid.com you’ll see how to take advantage of it. But, before we move on to specifics, there a few terms its important to understand. Become…
Media Composer® 6 – Working with Stereoscopic 3D
With Stereoscopic filmmaking comes an entirely new set of creative techniques, rules and editing practices. Media Composer 6 includes a powerful, integrated stereoscopic workflow. In our free tutorial videos on Avid.com you’ll see how to take advantage of it. But, let’s begin by taking a look at how our eyes work in stereo. Become an…
Avid DS Spot Color Checker
A simple custom Spot Color Checker preset for Avid DS simplifies color correction in file based workflows. This tutorial by Igor Ridanovic covers the use of the preset and some simple steps in basic color balancing. The free preset is available for download at HDhead.com.
Avid® Rough Cut – 20 Years of Gear
Follow Matt on Twitter – http://twitter.com/MattFeury Out with the old and in with the new! After a big year of new features and new hardware for Media Composer, Matt’s in the Rough Cut studio visiting with the ghosts of NLE’s past. Take a trip down memory lane and check out some things that you may…
Media Composer® 6 – Surround Sound
Create 5.1 and 7.1 surround mixes directly within Media Composer 6, or import from Avid Pro Tools.
Video Tutorial: How to Use PhraseFind in Avid Media Composer
Use PhraseFind to quickly burrow into the audio of all the clips in your project to find a specific word or phrase! PhraseFind is one of the most talked about new features in Avid Media Composer. Released in v. 5.5, PhraseFind phonetically searches every clip in your project for a word or phrase that you…
Video Tutorial: How to Use the New Find Tool in Avid Media Composer
Immediately find exactly what you’re looking for with Media Composer’s new Find Tool! As we continue our video tutorial series on the new features in Media Composer 6, we thought we’d highlight the new Find Tool (which was technically introduced in Media Composer 5.5). Its powerful metadata searching capabilities will allow you to burrow deep…
Media Composer® 6 – Faster and better than ever
Professional editors and producers like you around the world have told us what you need to succeed. More efficient and easy-to-use video editing tools. An open platform that enables you to work with everything you want and integrate into any workflow. More power to eliminate bottlenecks, so you can work faster than ever. We listened….
Media Composer® 6 – Accelerated Color Grading with Artist Color
When it comes to color grading, using a mouse can leave you seeing red — literally. With the compact, ergonomic Artist Color, you gain deep hands-on control to get the look you’re after — with great precision and speed. Plus, you get the superior feel and control of high-end grading hardware at a fraction of…
Avid Media Composer 6 First Look!
This is a quick look at Avid’s great new media composer software. Sorry about the audio quality. I had to get this done on limite time and resources. Lots of other work to do! • Rebuilt from the core 64 architecture • Modern sleek and efficient User Interface • Full industry-defining stereoscopic workflows • Avid…
Media Composer® 6 – User Interface
Work more easily and efficiently—but not differently—with the sleek and sexy new user interface.
Avid DS Stereoscopic Conversion
2D video is just plain 2D. Learn how to do a quick and dirty stereoscopic conversion in Avid DS. This tutorial by Igor Ridanovic is based on a SMPTE paper by C. Vazguez and W. J. Tam. The tutorial comes with a free downloadable anaglyph preset available at hdhead.com.
