2012: Storytelling on the cutting edge
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2012: Storytelling on the cutting edge

Telling a riveting, end-of-the-world story can be challenging when theres over 1,400 visual effects wreaking apocalyptic chaos on screen. But for the editing team behind 2012, Media Composer® helped them pre-visualize sequences and collaborate across two countries, from the productions beginning to end, to craft the intricate storyline.

Avid Screencast #04: Changing the Field Order
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Avid Screencast #04: Changing the Field Order

In this episode, we’ll combat the stuttery mess of wrongly imported or ingested interlaced video footage by swapping the field order with the help of the Matte Key real-time effect. Buckle up, this one’s going to get geeky! And don’t forget to check out the show notes for more. Check out the blog enry for…

Avid Screencast #01: Real-Time Reflections
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Avid Screencast #01: Real-Time Reflections

In this episode, we’ll create shiny reflections of video as you may know them from the iTunes Store or advertisements. To accomplish that, we’ll use the real-time 3D Warp effect and all of it is going to take less than five minutes! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc01

Avid Screencast #02: Toggling Timeline Views With Your Keyboard
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Avid Screencast #02: Toggling Timeline Views With Your Keyboard

In this episode, we’ll increase your productivity by being able to quickly switch between different timeline views. For example, just press a button on your keyboard and automatically enlarge the audio tracks while turning on the audio waveforms. It’s quick and easy! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc02

WAN Workflow – Avid Interplay Access over the Internet
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WAN Workflow – Avid Interplay Access over the Internet

WAN Workflow – Avid Interplay Access over the Internet Media operations dealing with more demanding projects, fewer personnel, smaller budgets, and more responsibilities now have a solution to the challenge of getting more work done with less. Interplays new WAN workflows connect distributed facilities to each other and link remote contributors to the facility enabling…

Track and Stabilize Motion in Avid® Media Composer® to Great Effect – Media Composer Cutting Edge
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Track and Stabilize Motion in Avid® Media Composer® to Great Effect – Media Composer Cutting Edge

With Avid Media Composer, you can tame shaky hand-held video footage, mask out or color-correct moving objects and elements, and create visual effects more easily using the built-in motion tracking, stabilization, Paint, and AniMatte tools. Learn how in this Cutting Edge video.

Mix and Match in Media Composer 4 – Media Composer Cutting Edge
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Mix and Match in Media Composer 4 – Media Composer Cutting Edge

When you need to cut together multiple video clips from a variety of sources in mixed resolutions, nothing gives you the speed or superb image quality of the new Mix and Match features in Avid Media Composer 4. Forget hardware transcoding; with Media Composer 4 software, you can freely mix and match HD and SD…

Media Composer 4 – First Look at the World’s Most Advanced Film and Video Editing System
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Media Composer 4 – First Look at the World’s Most Advanced Film and Video Editing System

Get more features, more formats, more flexibility, and more fun! Media Composer® 4 is available now on Avid.com and at resellers near you. Mix and match SD and HD formats, frame rates, and resolutions in the same timeline Access and edit XDCAM, P2, and GFCAM media directly, without transcoding or copying files Acquire, edit, and…

Transformers and Media Composer – Transforming editors into collaborators
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Transformers and Media Composer – Transforming editors into collaborators

Get your free trial copy of Avid® Media Composer® Tthe same video editing system used by the pros. “I don’t know anyone doing $200 million dollar movies who is not cutting on a Media Composer system. At this level, where there’s so much at stake, everyone uses it.” – Roger Barton, Editor, Transformers: Revenge of the…