In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Bins, the best naming convention to start out with, and how to quickly and easily search for bins in your Media Composer projects.
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about probably the most important of your settings, and it is the Keyboard Setting. Most people get frustrated right away, as they can’t figure out how to add commands to your keyboard and composer window, but that’s where the Command Palette comes into play, and gives you (almost)
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about your Import settings, and focuses in on a very important aspect of importing, and that is supported codecs inside of Media Composer. If you don’t set up your imports correctly, you’ll end up recompressing your footage, instead of re-wrapping it.
In part 2 of our two part look at Export Settings, Kevin P McAuliffe talks how you can export your HD sequences as SD clips, this way avoiding using programs like Adobe’s Media Encoder or Sorenson Squeeze to do your downconversion, and then Kevin talks about the new 8.3.1 update to Media Composer, and how
In part 1 of our two part look at Export Settings, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about how important they are in getting your footage out of Media Composer, and how to set up a Same As Source export, as well as a custom HD export.
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe begins his look at your Settings inside of Media Composer. Settings are what is going to get you up and running quickly on not only your own system, but on other systems you might find yourself on. There are so many options in settings, but Kevin will show you
In a couple other Media Composer videos we were talking about not needing to scale up things like Muzzle Flashes when we import into Media Composer. In this video I want to show you this in action so you can see the difference in each of the Image Size Settings when you import. While we
In this video we look at how to change the brightness of our interface in Avid Media Composer. When you first open Media Composer you will be greeted with a light gray interface. This is easily changed by going to SETTINGS, Interface, and adjusting our slider. These settings will be remembered with your Media Composer
Welcome to this first episode of our 5-part tutorial series ‘Get Started Fast with Media Composer for High-Res Workflows’ on Avid Blogs. In this lesson Kevin P McAuliffe will give you a general overview of setting up a larger than HD project, and I’ll discuss more of the basic concepts of Media Composer, with the
Media Composer: Get to Know Your Settings Files In depth guide on all the settings and how they work, where they are located, and things to think about. Gain in-depth technical expertise to maximize your Avid experience Are you a tech head who administers, designs, uses, or implements Avid products? Register for our live Avid
If you’re not getting what you need to succeed—or you’re a former Avid user who switched (we’d love to have you back)—join award-winning editor Kevin P McAuliffe to get started fast. http://www.avidblogs.com/fcp7fast/ In the second of our “Get Started Fast with Avid for Final Cut Pro 7” tutorials, Kevin P McAuliffe highlights key differences between
Learn audio mixing shortcuts within Avid Media Composer 7 Define your own keyboard shortcuts using Command Palette tips.
library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_79 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his talk about Power User keyboard settings and you’ll quickly see that you don’t need to remap the entire keyboard to speed up your workflow. In most cases, it’s simply about choosing the right tools to have at the tip of your fingers to get the job
library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_78 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe uses a Linkedin forum discussion about what keyboard settings are useful for an editor to not only show you his settings in depth, but also explain in detail what each customized setting does, and why you’re going to want to add it to your editing workflow.
http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_12 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe wraps up his look at the main settings you will need to get up and running in Media Composer by looking at the Marquee Title, Media Creation, Timeline and Workspace settings.