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Media Composer

ScriptSync® for Documentaries – Avid® Media Composer® tutorials

ScriptSync® gives Media Composer® editors a greater level of efficiency and control over their media then they’ve ever had before. Editors can simply and quickly synchronize their media to an electronic copy of the script from their film or TV show. Instead of having to shift through bins or shuttle through clips an editor simply

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Avid DS

Premultiplication in Avid DS Pt 1 of 2

This video tutorial teaches you the general basics of premultiplication. These skills come in handy when you need to deliver graphics elements created in DS to another system. To download Avid DS presets used in this and other tutorials visit hdhead.com Here is a link to part 2

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #38: BCC Pan & Zoom

NOTE: I had to trim this video down because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc38 After last week’s look into Avid’s Pan & Zoom effect, this week we check out the Pan & Zoom effect that is included in Boris Continuum Complete 5 and later. It’s a great effect that is

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #37: Avid Pan & Zoom

NOTE: I had to trim this video down severely because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc37 I’ve had several requests for tutorials on Pan and Zoom, so this week and next, this will be out topic. This week, we’ll look into Avid’s own Pan & Zoom effect. It is used to,

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Media Composer

Smart Tool Editing – Edit on the Fly with Avid® Media Composer® 5

With the new Smart Tool in Media Composer 5, you gain a faster and easier way of editing video alongside the established precision approach. Learn how to use it to engage the editing modes dynamically and discover several practical uses in this video tutorial. And check it out for yourself by downloading the free trial.

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Avid Technology

Powderhouse Productions: Creating a Media Revolution

Business is literally booming for Powderhouse Productions, one of the most explosive forces in today’s non-fiction TV entertainment industry. And that, according to Rob Kirwan, Senior Vice President, Production and Post, “takes a whole other level of media management we’ve never had.” But now, with Avid Interplay Production and Unity ISIS networked storage platforms, Powderhouse

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #36: AMA with Red and Quicktime Files

NOTE: I had to trim this video down severely because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc36 With Media Composer 5, you can access Quicktime and R3D files natively using AMA (provided you have the horsepower). In this episode, I’ll show you how to link to AMA volumes, change the R3D source

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #33: Safe Color Limiter

Nothing fancy, but a solid workhorse: Want to make sure that your sequence is complying with technical broadcast standards? The Safe Color Limiter Effect is your friend. http://avidscreencast.com/asc33  

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #32: Blurring into / out of a Title

In this episode, we’ll transition into a title by starting with a blur and then slowly letting it focus. To do this we’ll have to look into how titles actually work, redoing it as a simple Matte Key and then manipulating Key and Fill to achieve out goal. You see, it’s fun for the whole

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