Avid Screencast #48: Surveillance Camera Effect
Distort and degrade your shots to give it the look of surveillance camera footage.
Color Correction using Animatte with Media Composer
Learn how to use Avid Media Composer’s animatte feature to color correct video. You will also learn how to create a moving matte using Avid Media Composer’s tracker.
Avid Screencast #47: Audio Basics VII – Audio Effects
In this last episode in the audio series, I’ll show you how to apply audio effects in Media Composer and a couple of neat real-world tips (like limiting you master output) that will hopefully help you out one day or another. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct links…
Avid Screencast #46: Audio Basics VI – Equalizer
This week, we’ll look into Avid’s EQ Tool. It’s pretty basic (look for more powerful EQs in the AudioSuite), so’ll we’ll cover what it can and can’t do. Also: Build your own EQ preset into the Presets of the EQ’s fast menu. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct…
Avid DS 10 Tips for Better Life
Ten random Avid DS tips from Igor Ridanovic. Hopefully one or two of these may come in handy some day.
Golf Channel: Teeing Up Collaborative Performance with Interplay
Golf Channel is the non-stop shop for golf on cable. Now, collaboration is the name of its game as it puts a fully-integrated, Interplay-based workflow into play. Instead of working from separate islands, each contributor has become a much more integral part of the production team. Comments Lindsay Vassar, Video Editor, “the best part of…
Ken Burns Effect in Avid Media Composer
Learn how to create the ‘Ken Burns’ effect using the Pan and Zoom feature within Avid Media Composer. You can view a full text based tutorial with screen shots on this same concept by visiting:
Avid Screencast #45: Audio Basics V – Audio Keyframes
Learn to manipulate audio with keyframes. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct links to the other parts: Audio Basics I – Settings, Settings, Settings Audio Basics II – Stereo Tracks Audio Basics III – Very Basic Editing Audio Basics IV – Audio Mixer Audio Basics V – Audio…
Marquee® AutoTitler – Avid® Media Composer® tutorials
Although it’s primarily relied upon for creating motion titles and graphics in 3D space, Avid® Marquee® can also make quick work of still graphics and titles. One example of this is the creation of lower-third graphics. Often times editors are asked to create multiple lower-third titles for a project with all the titles having a…
Avid Screencast #44: Audio Basics IV – Audio Mixer
An in-depth look at Media Composer’s audio mixer. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct links to the other parts: Audio Basics I – Settings, Settings, Settings Audio Basics II – Stereo Tracks Audio Basics III – Very Basic Editing Audio Basics IV – Audio Mixer Audio Basics V…
Editing from a Bin in Media Composer
Learn how to edit directly from a bin window within Avid Media Composer without having to load the content into a source window.
Avid Media Access v2 – Avid® Media Composer® tutorials
Since being introduced in 2009, the AMA architecture has been expanded in Media Composer© 5.0 to include even more file-based formats. Now in MC5 users can directly link to and have immediate access to formats such as RED©, QuickTime© with H.264, QuickTime with ProRes, Canon’s new XF plug-in, the P2 DVCPRO© format, XDCAM HD, as…
Multiple transitions in Media Composer
Learn how to create a slideshow in Avid Media Composer by marking in-out points for all your clips at the same time. You’ll learn how to add transitions to all your slides with one click of the mouse.
Robert Rodriguez: PREDATORS – From Concept To The Big Screen
See how filmmaker Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios gave rise to a gripping new chapter in the Predator franchise, with help from an all-Avid workflow.
Avid Screencast #43: Audio Basics III – Very Basic Editing
This week, we’ll make some very simple audio edits, create transitions, check out waveforms and get rid of those horrid pops that are sometimes created by audio edits. This is actually the first part of a show that was to include the audio mixer as well, but the episode just turned out to be way…
