Avid DS Fog and Smoke FX
Create simple and fast fog and smoke effects in Avid DS without a third party particle system. DS presets for this tutorial are available from www.HDhead.com along with a number of other handy presets and tutorial podcasts.
Track and Stabilize Motion in Avid® Media Composer® to Great Effect – Media Composer Cutting Edge
With Avid Media Composer, you can tame shaky hand-held video footage, mask out or color-correct moving objects and elements, and create visual effects more easily using the built-in motion tracking, stabilization, Paint, and AniMatte tools. Learn how in this Cutting Edge video.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Television on the cutting edge
The editors behind The Ellen DeGeneres Show thrive on laughs and collaboration to cut each show, but that almost came to a halt when they transitioned to HD and changed editing systems. Hear how switching back to Media Composer put an end to their “constant chasing of problems.”
Avid DS Z Buffer FX
This Avid DS tutorial explains the basic use of Z buffer information when compositing 3D animation elements in Avid DS.
Mix and Match in Media Composer 4 – Media Composer Cutting Edge
When you need to cut together multiple video clips from a variety of sources in mixed resolutions, nothing gives you the speed or superb image quality of the new Mix and Match features in Avid Media Composer 4. Forget hardware transcoding; with Media Composer 4 software, you can freely mix and match HD and SD…
Media Composer 4 – First Look at the World’s Most Advanced Film and Video Editing System
Get more features, more formats, more flexibility, and more fun! Media Composer® 4 is available now on Avid.com and at resellers near you. Mix and match SD and HD formats, frame rates, and resolutions in the same timeline Access and edit XDCAM, P2, and GFCAM media directly, without transcoding or copying files Acquire, edit, and…
Avid DS Functional On-screen Counter
This is a follow up to the Avid DS On-screen Frame Calculator tutorial from May 2009. This lesson explains how to create the counters which are the basic building blocks for the frame calculator. DS presets for this tutorial are available from www.HDhead.com along with a number of other handy presets and tutorial podcasts.
Transformers and Media Composer – Transforming editors into collaborators
Get your free trial copy of Avid® Media Composer® Tthe same video editing system used by the pros. “I don’t know anyone doing $200 million dollar movies who is not cutting on a Media Composer system. At this level, where there’s so much at stake, everyone uses it.” – Roger Barton, Editor, Transformers: Revenge of the…
DS Timewarps
[almost] Everything you ever wanted to know about Timewarps (but were afraid or too lazy to read the manual to find out). Covers DS’s Constant, Hold, Speed, and Input Speed Timewarps
NAB ’09 – What’s New With Avid Media Composer 3.5
Robert Russo, Avid’s Application Specialist, talks to us about the new features and updates to Avid Media Composer 3.5 including the ability to easily edit Stereoscopic 3D.
Episode Twelve: Animating Text Along a Path
In this episode, Dave Forsyth shows you how to use Avid Marquee to animate text along a pre-drawn path
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You want to do your best work while staying on time and on budget. From ingest to playout, Avid HD News solutions deliver workflow speed, flexibility, and creative power. So you can be first with the most compelling stories and a better bottom line.
Read Audio Timecode – Media Composer Cutting Edge
Gain more flexibility during production with Read Audio Timecode, a feature in Avid Media Composer that allows you to capture audio and video separately and then automatically synchronize the sources together as you begin editing. During production, you use an external timecode generator to sync the internal clock of the sound recorder, while feeding the…
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Avid DS Frames to Timecode Calculator
This tutorial explains the use of High Speed Calc preset available at www.hdhead.com. This on-screen calculator for Avid DS can be used to convert frames to timecode at speeds from 1fps to 120fps.
