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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

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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2022-07-17
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

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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

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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

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2022-06-23
Media Composer

Best features of the new Avid (added between 2019.6 and 2020.4)

This is a video highlighting and demonstrating my top 14 best features to have debuted since Avid changed the Media Composer UI (and code/engine/overhaul) back in 2019 with the release of 2019.6 up to current version at time of recording 2022.4 Thanks Everyone for watching!! Got more content coming soon (working on a long-form series

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2022-06-23
Media Composer

Scripting Macros in Keyboard Maestro (macOS)

Thanks Everyone for watching!! Macros are a huge part of my workflows these days and have honestly saved me countless hours at this point! I’ve put together a whole variety of these scripts to deal with specific problems and workflow scenarios. I truly hope this video convinces at least one person to look into it

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2022-06-22
Broadcast & News

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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2022-06-19
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

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2022-06-19

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