Avid Screencast #26: Color Correction Basics V – Matching Two Shots Part I
One of the most common tasks when doing color correction is matching two shots. So this week and next, we’ll do exactly that. As always,
Avid DS – Indexing and Media Management (1 of 2)
Learn the basics of Avid DS indexing, why it is important and how to manage your media files. This is a part 1 of 2.
Avid Screencast #25: Color Correction Basics IV – Manipulating Color Balance with Color Wheels
In last week’s episode, we chnaged the color balance of a shot with curves. This week we’ll do the same thing with the color wheels.
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Monitor Video Externally through Matrox MXO2 Mini and Avid Editing Systems
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Avid Screencast #24: Color Correction Basics III – Manipulating Color Balance with Curves
NOTE: I had to trim this video down because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc24 In this episode, we’ll severely change
Avid Screencast #22: Color Correction Basics I – Laying the Groundwork
Before we start color correcting a shot, a few words about scopes. http://avidscreencast.com/asc22 Here are direct links to the other tutorials in this series: Color
Avid Screencast #23: Color Correction Basics II – Manipulating Contrast
NOTE: I had to trim this video down because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc23 Manipulate the contrast of an image
Episode Fifteen: Cheesy “How To” Transitions Part Two
Yet another transition I recently saw that is really easy to build. Once again, no third-party applications. Everything is done right inside the Avid
Customizing Your Avid Bin
A short video tutorial on how to customize views in your Avid Media Composer bin. To learn more things like this, go to PostFifthPictures.com
Episode Fourteen: Cheesy “How-To” Transitions Part One
In this episode, we take the Animatte a couple of steps further and check out an effect used for introducing talent in a TV show
Avid Screencast #21: Tackling the Timewarp II
In this episode, we’ll continue our deep-dive into one of the most powerful and most-used effects in Avid: The Timewarp. We’ll cover the following basics
Avid Screencast #20: Tackling the Timewarp I
NOTE: I had to trim this video down because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc20 In this episode, we’ll continue our
Pow! Pix: Covering the 2010 Winter Games 2010
Here’s an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how Pow! Pix, a New York-based post production facility, created various features, promos and teaser segments from the figure
Avid Screencast #18: Broken Projector Transition
Create a transition that looks like a broken projector image flicker. http://www.avidscreencast.com/asc18
Episode Thirteen: Avid Pan & Zoom Plugin
Check out how you can use the Avid Pan & Zoom plugin to preserve all the detail in your hi res graphics when using them
Moving Filmstrip for Avid Media Composer
Create a moving filmstrip effect for Avid Media Composer. This is a great lesson for using keyframes and compositing techniques. You can view the entire
Marquee 3D text tutorial
Use Avid Media Composer’s Marquee Title tool to create a sequence of 3D characters that fade up one at a time. You can view more
Avid Screencast #17: Automate Title Creation with Marquee’s Autotitler
So you have a bunch of subtitles or lower thirds to do. They all look the same, except for the contents. You’re not seriously considering
Avid Screencast #16: Secondary Color Correction in Media Composer
Create a secondary color correction in Avid Media Composer. http://www.avidscreencast.com/asc16
Pleasantville Effect For Avid Media Composer
Learn how to create the Pleasantville effect with Avid Media Composer using the SpetraMatte keyer.
Avid Screencast #14: Spice Up Text with Video
Sometimes the good, old title with static text just doesn’t cut it. In this episode, we’ll make the text be another layer of video.
Avid Screencast #12: Animated Photo Slideshow
Create a visually interesting photo slideshow by stacking the photos on top of each other and animating them!
Avid Screencast #10: Special Episode – Obscure Faces
PLEASE NOTE: This is a special Christmas Episode, so… be prepared for that 🙂 Sometimes, you need to obscure the face of a person,
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
Avid Screencast #05: Pleasantville Effect
In this episode, we’ll create the Pleasantville Effect – everything is black-and-white except for one color – using a Spectramatte and an Animatte for creating
Avid Screencast #06: Remap Your Keyboard!
In this episode, I’ll show you how to remap your keyboard and give you a couple of ideas on what functions to map to it.
Avid Screencast #07: Kill Bill Effect
Create a high-contrast colorized look to your image to make it pop! Check out the blog enry for this week’s episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc07
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
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
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
Avid Screencast #03: Swish-Pan, cheap and real-time!
In this episode, we’ll create a swish-pan effect without using 3rd-party plug-ins. So it’s gonna be cheap, easy and will play in real-time! Check out
Rack Focus Effect in DS using Boris Continuum AVX Plug in
BCC AVX for DS’s Lens Blur filter emulates a real-world defocused lens effect where the out-of-focus highlights of an image clip take on the shape
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
Avid DS Fog and Smoke FX
Create simple and fast fog and smoke effects in Avid DS without a third party particle system. DS presets for this tutorial are available from
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
The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Television on the cutting edge
The editors behind The Ellen DeGeneres Show thrive on laughs and collaboration to cut each show, but that almost came to a halt when they
Avid DS Z Buffer FX
This Avid DS tutorial explains the basic use of Z buffer information when compositing 3D animation elements in Avid DS.
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
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
Avid DS Functional On-screen Counter
This is a follow up to the Avid DS On-screen Frame Calculator tutorial from May 2009. This lesson explains how to create the counters which
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
DS Timewarps
[almost] Everything you ever wanted to know about Timewarps (but were afraid or too lazy to read the manual to find out). Covers DS’s Constant,
NAB ’09 – What’s New With Avid Media Composer 3.5
Robert Russo, Avid’s Application Specialist, talks to us about the new features and updates to Avid Media Composer 3.5 including the ability to easily edit
Episode Twelve: Animating Text Along a Path
In this episode, Dave Forsyth shows you how to use Avid Marquee to animate text along a pre-drawn path
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