In our fourth lesson, we’re talking about effects and titling. Effects work in Media Composer is a little bit different than in most other NLEs including Premiere and even Final Cut Pro. We’re accustomed to having certain parameters like Scale, Rotation and Opacity “attached” to our clips. It’s not like that in Media Composer. We […]

Our third lesson is all about Media Management. Now that you’ve acquired your media, you need to figure out what Media Composer has exactly done with it, so whether you need to delete media, or archive a project, you’ll always have control of your media, right at your fingertips. Watch all episodes on: http://www.avidblogs.com/get-started-…

In our second lesson, we’re talking about acquiring media. Whether you’re linking to, importing, consolidating, transcoding or capturing. Media Composer editors, much like Premiere editors, can simply link to their media, and start editing, but the real power of Media Composer comes in how it works with Avid’s proprietary codec DNxHD and DNxHR, to make […]

Welcome to our newest tutorial series “Get Started Fast with Media Composer for Adobe Editors“. The goal of this series is to show you fundamental differences between your Adobe editing application, and Avid Media Composer, so you can get up to speed as quickly as possible. Watch all episodes on: http://www.avidblogs.com/get-started-…

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about your Grid settings, but more importantly, he talks about a concept that, if you’re delivering your content to a TV station or network, you will need to know, and that is 4×3 safe inside of your 16×9 project.

Manhattan Edit Workshop Director of Education Janet Dalton shows how to create a subclip in Avid Media Composer. Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications. […]

Manhattan Edit Workshop Director of Education Janet Dalton shows how to create audio keyframes in Avid Media Composer. Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications. […]

Manhattan Edit Workshop Director of Education Janet Dalton shows how to use the Match Frame tool in Avid Media Composer. Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate and Apple products to the complete suite of […]

Manhattan Edit Workshop Director of Education Janet Dalton shows how to use the extract and lift tools in Avid Media Composer. Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced manufacturer certified training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate and Apple products to the complete suite […]

Learn to edit like a pro regardless of past software experience. Avid Master Editor, Steve Hullfish, will guide you through a series of information-packed lessons.

Manhattan Edit Workshop Director of Education Janet Dalton’s Avid Tutorial for using the Quick Trim tools.

Excerpt from Avid 6 Core Training by Steve Kanter

Working with Avid Media Composer 6 Title Tool – Excerpt from Avid 6 Core Training

Exporting Media from Avid Media Composer 6 – Excerpt from Avid 6 Core Training

Working with Avid’s Trim Tools – Excerpt from Avid 6 Core Training