Category: Video Editing

Avid DS

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.

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Avid Technology

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.”

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Avid DS

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.

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Media Composer

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

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Avid DS

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.

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Avid DS

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

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Media Composer

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

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.

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