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AVID | Learn Avid's Media Composer 6 - Lesson 1: Getting Started
In this tutorial, Kevin P McAuliffe gets you started in Avid's Media Composer 6, and talks about some important concepts that you need to understand before you start editing. This tutorial series will teach you everything you need to know about not only Avid's Media Composer, but Avid's Symphony as well.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Avid Unveils Media Composer 6
With the release of Media Composer version 6, Avid is making good on its promise to pursue a path of openness and 64-bit performance. Available November 15, the release includes support for third-party hardware, a redesigned interface, and extensive support for stereoscopic editing.
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Debra Kaufman |
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AVID | Wanna Switch? - Lesson 5 - Effects & Titling
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you Media Composer's "Go To" effect, the 3D Warp, and how easy it is to create basic titles for your sequence. Then, to wrap it all up, he shows a great and often overlooked feature of the basic title tool, that will have you staying in your NLE to do most of your titling effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Learn Media Composer Lesson 2: The Interface & Intro to Bins
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe introduces you to the Media Composer interface, talks about Bins and the important part they play in your workflow, and begins his talk about Settings, and how you will use them to not only help your workflow, but help you out of problems when you run into them.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Avid Liquid 7 -- a review by broadcast designer Mark Harvey
Mark Harvey, longtime leader in Creative Cow and a noted broadcast designer/editor, gives readers a look at the new Avid Liquid 7 -- acquired when Avid bought Pinnacle Systems and given many new features in this latest version now rolling out under the Avid name. Mark gives this system much praise for its powerful background rendering and wide feature set, as well as many new features like its HDV capabilities rolling out for the first time in v7.
Review
Mark Harvey |
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AVID | Learn Media Composer Lesson 3: Audio Settings
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe begins at the top of the Settings window by looking at the Audio and Audio Project settings, and how a commonly overlooked setting can really get you into trouble, if you don't know what you're looking for.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Wanna Switch? - Lesson 6 - Outputting
To finish off our introductory look at Avid's Media Composer, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at outputting both to tape, and to a file. This way, whether you need to output your final show for a client, or get a file ready to work with in After Effects, you're going to be covered!
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Learn Media Composer Lesson 4: Bins PART ONE
In part one of this two part look at Bins, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about creating not only customized bin views, but also shows some great hidden gems to really organize your projects so all of your edit sessions go as smoothly as possible.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Learn Media Composer Lesson 5: Bins PART TWO
In part two at our look at Bins inside of Media Composer/Symphony, Kevin P McAuliffe gets more in-depth with organization, and shows you some great quick tips to not only better organize your projects, but also help speed up that organizational process to get you editing a lot quicker.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Avid Media Composer Quick Tip 4: Too Many Bins
Ever have the problem of opening a project, just to realize that hundreds of bins have been left open, and it takes forever for a project to open? Well, you'll never have that problem again with this great quick tip for AVID Media Composer.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | Wanna Switch? - Lesson 1 - Projects & User Settings
If you aren't happy with the direction that Apple has decided to go, and want to switch NLE's, this in-depth look at Avid's Media Composer is for you. Looking at FCP7 and Media Composer side by side, in lesson one, we start by looking at the differences between how projects are handled, and how to set up your user settings in Media Composer.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | AVID Media Composer Quick Tip - Creating the Rocky effect
People immediately dismiss doing effects in Avid Media Composer, as they think that a compositing application can do a better job. Well, as you will see in this Quick Tip, Media Composer can create some very complex animations very quick, very easy, and in some cases, just as good as After Effects.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Kevin P. McAuliffe |
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AVID | EDL, a tutorial from Dennis Kutchera
There are more modern ways of exchanging edit information such as OMF and AAF, but not everyone is going to have this. Media 100 now has OMF export as an extra option in version 8 and Final Cut Pro is supported through an OMF export plug in from Automatic Duck. But the old EDL text file is still with us. If you must use an EDL, you are going to be in for some frustration if you do not follow these procedures that Dennis Kutchera shares with us.
Tutorial
Dennis Kutchera |
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AVID | Avid Xpress Pro: 15:1s to DV 25 411
Offline editing started as a way to save disk space when hard drive-based storage carried a considerable premium. These days, although fast hard drives are not very expensive, there are still good reasons to use an offline editing workflow, provided certain conditions are met. Perhaps the most common situation is when so many tapes are involved that you simply don't want to devote so much of your storage to a project that will ultimately be cut to a mere fraction of the sources captured. Another reason is the use of a laptop for mobile editing in the field. A laptop's hard drive does not provide the needed bandwidth or capacity to edit more than a few hours of footage in the field if needed.
Tutorial
Alex Alexzander |
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AVID | Difference Matting within the Avid
In this tutorial, Ra-ey Saleh will show you how even without shooting Green Screen you can replace the background of a shot whilst keeping the moving foreground undamaged. He'll use a technique called 'Difference Matting' and do it all within the Avid!
Tutorial
Ra-ey Saleh |
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