Media Composer
Avid Screencast #12: Animated Photo Slideshow
Create a visually interesting photo slideshow by stacking the photos on top of each other and animating them!
2010-01-14
Category: Video Editing
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #10: Special Episode – Obscure Faces
PLEASE NOTE: This is a special Christmas Episode, so… be prepared for that 🙂 Sometimes, you need to obscure the face of a person, be it for legal or aesthetic reasons. In this episode, we’ll do just that using a very special technique. Check out the blog entry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc10
2009-12-24
Avid Technology
2012: Storytelling on the cutting edge
Telling a riveting, end-of-the-world story can be challenging when theres over 1,400 visual effects wreaking apocalyptic chaos on screen. But for the editing team behind 2012, Media Composer® helped them pre-visualize sequences and collaborate across two countries, from the productions beginning to end, to craft the intricate storyline.
2009-12-23
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #05: Pleasantville Effect
In this episode, we’ll create the Pleasantville Effect – everything is black-and-white except for one color – using a Spectramatte and an Animatte for creating a garbage matte. Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc05
2009-12-13
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #06: Remap Your Keyboard!
In this episode, I’ll show you how to remap your keyboard and give you a couple of ideas on what functions to map to it. If this does not make you at least 10% more productive, I’ll refund your money. Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc06
2009-12-13
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #07: Kill Bill Effect
Create a high-contrast colorized look to your image to make it pop! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc07
2009-12-13
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #04: Changing the Field Order
In this episode, we’ll combat the stuttery mess of wrongly imported or ingested interlaced video footage by swapping the field order with the help of the Matte Key real-time effect. Buckle up, this one’s going to get geeky! And don’t forget to check out the show notes for more. Check out the blog enry for
2009-12-12
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #01: Real-Time Reflections
In this episode, we’ll create shiny reflections of video as you may know them from the iTunes Store or advertisements. To accomplish that, we’ll use the real-time 3D Warp effect and all of it is going to take less than five minutes! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc01
2009-12-12
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #02: Toggling Timeline Views With Your Keyboard
In this episode, we’ll increase your productivity by being able to quickly switch between different timeline views. For example, just press a button on your keyboard and automatically enlarge the audio tracks while turning on the audio waveforms. It’s quick and easy! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc02
2009-12-12
Media Composer
Avid Screencast #03: Swish-Pan, cheap and real-time!
In this episode, we’ll create a swish-pan effect without using 3rd-party plug-ins. So it’s gonna be cheap, easy and will play in real-time! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc03
2009-12-12
Avid DS
Rack Focus Effect in DS using Boris Continuum AVX Plug in
BCC AVX for DS’s Lens Blur filter emulates a real-world defocused lens effect where the out-of-focus highlights of an image clip take on the shape of the blades that control the size of the lens diaphragm. In this video tutorial, we use the BCC Lens Blur filter to create a rack focus effect, which is
2009-12-10
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.
2009-12-03
Media Composer
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.
2009-11-30
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.”
2009-11-17
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.
2009-10-12
