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Media Composer

Six AWESOME features of Avid Media Composer

Love it or hate it, Avid Media Composer is the dominant editing platform for film and television. It’s used in edit suites from New Zealand, to the UK, to Germany and the USA (I’ve worked in 3 of those, guess which!). Yet despite it being so widely used there are a number of REALLY amazing

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Meet the new Avid Media Composer!

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

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Avid for beginners! – Crash course in Avid Media Composer – 101 basic tutorial

Learn Avid Media Composer! This is a 101 tutorial for absolute beginners. You will learn basic editing techniques and get to know the general user interface. No prior knowledge is required. I’ll walk you through the basics step by step. Chapters:0:00 Intro0:22 Creating a project1:14 General interface and settings4:06 Import media4:57 Editing basics15:50 Exporting16:26 Keyboard

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Avid Media Composer Tip – Settings

Customizing the settings in Avid Media Composer is key to creating an experience tailored for each individual editor. Where are the Settings? How can they be manipulated? This video will give you a quick look at a way to create new settings.

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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 9 – Exporting

Now, you might be thinking…”Hang on…did I miss a ton of lessons?” No, you didn’t. When I teach Media Composer, I teach the importance of Project Setup, Transcoding and Consolidating and Exporting. This is where projects fall off the rails. Make one mistake in any of these three sections, and your project will be in

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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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Avid Media Composer — Selection Tools in the Timeline

Did you know that you can select clips in your Media Composer timeline by source clip color? Or to see if any of your clips are muted or offline? It’s all about speed and efficiency in Avid Media Composer and we are showing you several ways to quickly and easily make clip or range selections

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