While it has been three years now, there are still many who have yet to make the jump from the old Avid Media Composer UI (2018 versions and earlier) to the “new” UI (2019.6 and later) and for perfectly valid reasons. There’s always issues with being an early adopter.
Though now many post production facilities and film productions are making the leap and so here’s a video to help introduce people to the new and improved Avid and help you navigate what’s changed. Thanks for watching everyone!
This one was done after a direct request so I hope it lives up to the request and fills all the info that you need to feel comfortable with the new Avid. Truth is, for the most part Avid’s the same. Just neater, faster and a lot more colourful (at least mine is!).
If you are having trouble with anything else in Avid that isn’t covered here just let me know and I can address it or help you out directly!
Shout out to Michael Krulik and Avid!
Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.2 – Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.4
00:00 – Intro
01:26 – 01 – Bulk edit + find/replace in bins
08:27 – 02 – View bin colours in the project window / bin sidebar
10:29 – 03 – Project poster frames
11:33 – 04 – Thumbnail view of Titler+ titles
11:48 – 05 – Search function in the command palette
12:23 – 06 – HEVC / H.265 support
12:47 – 07 – The Bin Map
14:22 – 08 – Snap to grid in bin frame view
15:47 – 09 – Bin status – live bin readouts
17:58 – 10 – The Sequence Map
19:17 – 11 – Sync lock all tracks with a keystroke
19:58 – 12 – An updated Audio Mixer
20:32 – 13 – Up to 99 video and 99 audio tracks
22:06 – 14 – Sending updated Avid media
25:23 – Summary and conclusion
