Tag: The Avid Assistant

Media Composer

What’s new in Avid Media Composer 2024.6?

Linked mentioned in the video: Avid Support (and recreating user settings)https://youtu.be/kdvSeWIQGzk Tips for updating Avidhttps://youtu.be/aWPPx5yj0Tw What’s New In Avid 2023.12https://youtu.be/ms-zN-aLars What’s New In Avid 2024.2https://youtu.be/HVNCgt_zTMw ScriptSync videohttps://youtu.be/HI0J3BDEH-c If you liked this video here’s where you can find more of my content: Instagram (updates)instagram.com/theavidassistant Patreon (Exclusive membership perks and videos)patreon.com/theavidassistant Specs of my system at time

2024-06-27

Media Composer

Be your own Avid Support! #avidmediacomposer #fixavidmediacomposer

Avid Common Fixes PDFhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/10egFk0LNb0hg-eXmMcvaN_Kix-tXpgUn/view?usp=sharing Links mentioned in the video: Avid AMA Plugins Pagehttps://www.avid.com/plugins/ama-plugins Avid Support Pagehttps://www.avid.com/support Avid Community Pagehttps://community.avid.com Avid Media Composer Users FaceBook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/mediacomposer Avid Documentation and Version Matrixhttps://avidtech.my.salesforce-sites.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/en267087?retURL=%2Fpkb%2Farticles%2Fen_US%2FDownload%2FMedia-Composer-First-Compatibility-matrix&popup=true Avid Versions Websitehttps://alwaysediting.com/avid-mc-versions Avid Proxy Workflow Videohttps://youtu.be/fbzMV22c9jc Ingesting Media video Pt1https://youtu.be/5QvZnQT5k9M Updating Avid Media Composer videohttps://youtu.be/aWPPx5yj0Tw If you liked this video here’s where you can

2024-06-10

Media Composer

MDV – The best way to manage Avid Media!

Link to download the amazing MDV app:http://djfio.com/mdv/ If you liked this video here’s where you can find more of my content: Instagram (updates)instagram.com/theavidassistant Patreon (Exclusive membership perks and videos)patreon.com/theavidassistant Specs of my system at time of recording the videoMacBook Pro 16″ 2023M2 Max Chip with 12 CPU cores / 38 GPU coresMacOS Sonoma 14.3.1Avid Media

2024-05-30

Media Composer

Avid Basics – Mask Margins

If you liked this video here’s where you can find more of my content: Instagram (updates)instagram.com/theavidassistant Patreon (Exclusive membership perks and videos)patreon.com/theavidassistant Chapters:00:00 – Intro00:23 – Effect Palette Mask01:30 – Mask Margins Setup04:59 – Note on Fullscreen Playback05:31 – Burn-ins07:51 – Export Options Specs of my system at time of recording the videoMacBook Pro 16″

2024-05-09

Media Composer

Avid Basics – Keyboard shortcuts (Cutdown)

Video going into Avid Smart Toolshttps://youtu.be/OEyI9EQ_Aho If you liked this video here’s where you can find more of my content: Instagram (updates)instagram.com/theavidassistant Patreon (Exclusive membership perks and videos)patreon.com/theavidassistant Specs of my system at time of recording the videoMacBook Pro 16″ 2023M2 Max Chip with 12 CPU cores / 38 GPU coresMacOS Sonoma 14.3.1Avid Media Composer

2024-04-25

Media Composer

What’s new in Avid Media Composer 2024.2?

Important Info down here!! Links mentioned in video… Links mentioned in video… Video on best practice for updating Avid: • We need to talk about updating Avid! Video on Avid version 2023.12: • What’s new in Avid Media Composer 202… Open Timeline IO Info: https://pypi.org/project/OpenTimelineIO/ If you liked this video here’s where you can find more of my content: Instagram (updates) instagram.com/theavidassistant Patreon (Exclusive membership perks and videos) patreon.com/theavidassistant

2024-02-27

Media Composer

What’s new in Avid Media Composer 2023.12?

Useful info down here!!! Links mentioned in the video: Best practice for updating Avid: https://youtu.be/aWPPx5yj0TwAvid Huddles Page: https://dev-werp.avid.com/resource-center/2023/10/avid-huddle-video-review-software-introduction Carbon Copy Cloner (Excellent Backup solution) https://bombich.com/features LouperIO (Excellent remote viewing solution) https://www.louper.io ReadMe and other docs for this release available here: https://avidtech.my.salesforce-sites.com/pkb/articles/en_US/user_guide/Media-Composer-2023-Documentation If you liked this video here’s where you can find more of my content:

2023-12-12

Media Composer

What’s new in Avid Media Composer 2023.8?

If you liked this video, check out the rest of the channel and consider hitting the join button for exclusive content! You can also join the Patreon community for the same exclusive content there’s well as other posts and downloads: patreon.com/theavidassistant I also tend to post about the channel and announce upcoming videos on the

2023-09-02

Media Composer

5 ways to lay out your scene bins in Avid Media Composer

Hey Guys! This one is taking a de-tour from technical stuff to take a look at 5 different ways to lay out your rushes bins for prior to cutting. This is one of the core things you’ll do when starting out as an assistant and one of the things your Editor may appreciate the most

2022-07-21

Media Composer

Making DNx Proxies for Avid MC in DaVinci Resolve

Hey Guys! This one is just to cover making DNx transcodes for Avid in DaVinci Resolve. I’ve seen a bunch of people run into issues with this in the forums if they’ve never done it before. So this will take you through the whole thing. Applying LUTs, making sure metadata is intact, even creating ALEs

2022-07-19

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

2022-07-17

Media Composer

What’s new in Media Composer 2022.7?

Hey Guys, thanks for watching. Some nice new (if subtle) additions to Avid Media Composer in 2022.7

2022-07-09

Media Composer

10 Fixes For when Avid isn’t working

Hey Guys! Thank-you so much for watching!! You can treat this video as an FAQ of common support tips for Avid Media Composer. These are the most common fixes to various problems I could find and they have got my Avid back up and running in no time on countless occasions so I really hope

2022-07-05

Media Composer

9 More AWESOME features of Avid Media Composer

Hey Guys, so since easily the most popular video so far was the first one going through some great features that may not be well-known in media composer, I decided to go for round 2! I’ve gathered a further 9 very useful features that some other Editors and Assistants have told me they didn’t previously

2022-06-30

Media Composer

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

2022-06-23

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