Tag: Media Composer
Media Composer

Getting Our Colors Back!

This tip will show you how to customize Timeline tracks or Bin backgrounds with your preferred colors, not the ones provided by Avid.

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2011-07-17
Media Composer

Smart Tool – Avid Media Composer® 5 Overview

A subtle but very important change to Media Composer 5 is the addition of the Link Selection Tool as well as the Smart Tool editing palette. Historically in Media Composer, to make adjustments to a segment or transition, you would have to enter a specific mode. Now with the Smart Tool, depending where your cursor

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2011-05-12
Avid Technology

Miami HEAT: Firing Up the Franchise Brand with Avid

For a professional sports team like the Miami HEAT, it’s not just about what happens during the game. When the rest of the world goes to commercial, HEATV goes to air, firing up the HEAT franchise brand with a wide array of media assets managed by the Avid Interplay production asset management system. “The name

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2011-02-28
Audio

Work More Easily with Audio – Avid® Media Composer® tutorials

Media Composer 5 introduced several improvements to audio (RTAS plug-ins, Stereo Audio Tracks, ability to view automation gain on individual tracks). At the time MC5 was introduced, Pro Tools couldn’t open RTAS plug-ins and stereo tracks from MC.With the intro of PT 9, not only can Pro Tools open RTAS plug-ins and Stereo Tracks, it

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2010-12-16
Media Composer

Multi Camera mode in Avid Media Composer

Here’s a very basic tutorial on how to set up a multi-camera edit using Avid Media Composer. I purposely made this tutorial very short to get right to the point. You can view the full transcript of this Media Composer tutorial by visiting: http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2010/08/setting_up_multi_camera_mo…

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2010-08-30
Avid Technology

Discovery Channel: Going Green with Avid Asset Management

Make the most of your media: http://apps.avid.com/make-most-media?cmpid=AV-SM-MTM-3 Going green in more ways than one, Discovery recently moved from tape to file-based workflows. “Everyone in the media industry knows that tape is extremely bad ecologically,” comments Clayton Dutton, Vice President of Post Production and Media Operations. But, just as important, Discovery now understands they can count

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2010-08-24
Avid Technology

Powderhouse Productions: Creating a Media Revolution

Business is literally booming for Powderhouse Productions, one of the most explosive forces in today’s non-fiction TV entertainment industry. And that, according to Rob Kirwan, Senior Vice President, Production and Post, “takes a whole other level of media management we’ve never had.” But now, with Avid Interplay Production and Unity ISIS networked storage platforms, Powderhouse

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2010-07-08