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Media Composer

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 7 – Transcoding

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Transcoding. We’ve talked in Lesson 5 about working with Avid “friendly” media. Now we need to talk about footage that requires a recompression to Avid Media, for you to work with in your Media Composer timelines. Whether it’s in an offline or online scenario, there is some

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 6 – Source Settings

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Source Settings. Understanding them is an exceptionally important step between linking to your footage, and transcoding it, which we’ll talk about in our next lesson. We’ll look at Color processing and Frameflex, as well as the ability to adjust RAW native parameters in the Source Settings window,

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 5 – Understanding Native Formats

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about probably the most important Media Composer lesson you will learn, and that is about understanding Native Media Composer codecs. Understanding this concept will change the way you bring media into your projects, and have you doing it properly, and avoiding creating multiple projects to bring media into

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 4 – The Source Browser

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks getting your footage into Media Composer via the Source Browser. Many people think that the Source Browser is for linking footage only. Did you also know you can import footage using the Source Browser as well? It really is a fantastic tool to get your footage into Media

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Working with Particle Illusion Standalone

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about the free Particle Illusion Standalone application that you can use to create unbelievably realistic particle simulations that can be rendered out, and added to your Media Composer timelines. In this lesson we cover everything you know to get you up and running, lightning quick. Channel: www.youtube.com/letseditMC_avid Facebook:

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 1 – Getting Started

In this lesson, we’re taking it right back to the beginning. My Creative Cow tutorial series on Media Composer had millions of views, and it’s been a while since I’ve taken it back to the beginning to teach you how to use Media Composer right from starting up the application, but that’s what we’re doing

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – What’s New in 2020.4

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about the newly released 2020.4 update to Avid Media Composer which, along with some exciting interface and under the hood updates, comes support for Mac OS Catalina. This, along with the implementation of the Universal Media Engine, new naming for Avid DNxHD files and some great in-application feature

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Sending Sessions to ProTools

One of the most common Media Composer workflows is sending your Media Composer timeline, specifically the audio, to ProTools to have an audio engineer give it the much needed mix it needs, so your final product can be sent to stations, theatres, or wherever else it might be going. With that said, there are some

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Working with 2:3 Pulldown

There’s nothing more frustrating that having 1080i clips, that you know were acquired in 23.976, and dropping them into your timeline, only to have them look terrible. Well, if you look closely enough in the Motion Effects editor, there’s a great tucked away feature to add 2:3 pulldown to your footage. What does this mean

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Working with Sapphire’s S_LensFlare

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe is talking about Lens Flares. More specifically, he’s talking about the excellent S_LensFlare effect, inside of Boris Sapphire 2020. Not only does this effect let you add realistic elements to your shots, but it also has an in-depth Flare Designer that you can use to either create your flares

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Exporting

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Exporting. A great question came up in the Avid Editors of Facebook group about what was the best exporting workflow for getting your timelines out of Media Composer. Well, in this lesson, we’ll take a look at an MXF export from Media Composer, and the huge advantage

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