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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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 Color Layout

How to remap your AVid DS Color Grading layout. Using Layout Editing, Image Buffers, Floating Viewers and Combo Views to make your Color Grading faster and more efficient.

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