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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 93: Add Logos to Credit Crawls

http://library.creativecow.net/mcauli… In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to add logos to your title crawls, by introducing Photoshop to your Media Composer workflow. What might seem to be limitations inside of Media Composer can bypassed by unitizing the Marquee Title Tool! Once you see how easy this technique is, you’ll be adding logos

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer: Michael Bay Film Look Part 1

http://library.creativecow.net/mcauli… In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows all the Symphony editors out there how to create a Michael Bay inspired film look right from within their Symphony timeline. Everything that is shown in this tutorial is designed to get you excited to stay in your NLE which not only saves you time, but will

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Audio

IBC 2013: Broadcast and Media ◄ Everywhere

The Broadcast and Media industry is facing unprecedented change—find out what you can do to win. Our new strategic vision will manifest itself as the most fluid end-to-end distributed media production environment in the industry—a comprehensive ecosystem that encompasses every aspect of the new digital media value chain. Learn how Avid Everywhere will help you

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 92: FrameFlex

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_92 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe takes a look at the new FrameFlex feature inside of Media Composer 7. Ideal for working with large frame sizes inside of HD and SD timelines, this new feature is almost a hidden gem, as it’s automatically added to your clips, once you drop them in the timeline.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 91: Transfer Modes

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_91 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Transfer Modes, or Blend Modes as they are more commonly referred to, and how even though most editors think that you cannot work with them inside of Media Composer, you actually have the tools right at your fingertips…you probably just don’t realize it.

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Media Composer

Boris TV, Episode 176: Digital Disintegration in Avid FX

Boris FX’s Paul Ezzy breaks down the power of BCC Pin Art, an OpenGL-accelerated particle-based 3D generator in the latest episode of Boris TV. This two-fold tutorial shows you not only how to add a “pixel-disintegration” transition (think the pixels from an old-school Atari game) to your footage, but also how to take advantage of

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Broadcast & News

Key Code Media presents: Avid Interplay Sphere for Education Webinar

August 2013: Featuring a walk through of Avid Interplay Production, Central and Sphere with Technical Manager and ASCR Elite Scott Williams of Key Code Media. Matt Stroup, Video Educator at Clark Magnet High School, discuss how Avid and Key Code Media revolutionized their media program, and offers strategies on writing grants and appropriating funds for

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 90: Intro to Audio Effects

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_90 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe introduces the Audio EQ tool, as well as the Audio Suite Plug-ins. These great tools let you create audio effects like the “telephone” effect, as well as letting you speed up and slow down audio, to make it fit wherever you need it to, in your timeline.

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 89: Consolidating & Transcoding

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_89 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows off a new feature inside of Media Composer 7, and that’s Background Consolidating and Transcoding. Not only can this great new feature be used from within the editing application, but you can also set up external folders, and C/T without even knowing that it’s happening!

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 88: Creating Video Walls Part 4

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_88 In his final look at creating video walls, Kevin P McAuliffe talks to Mac users out there, specifically ones who have switched from Final Cut Studio to Media Composer, and shows them how to create the same video wall effect using the new MC7 and Apple’s Motion 5.

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 87: Creating Video Walls Part 3

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_87 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe looks at creating a video wall inside of Adobe’s After Effects CC. Since every video wall needs videos clips as their base, Kevin starts out inside of Avid’s Media Composer, and does all the prep work there, and then switches over to AE CC to quickly and easily

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 86: Creating Video Walls Part 2

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_86 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe wraps up his look at creating a video wall solely within your Media Composer timeline by not only dropping multiple video clips into each “monitor” with a few clicks of the mouse, but he adds “icing on the cake” by adding a stylized title to the final composite.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 85: Creating Video Walls Part 1

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_85 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you why you don’t always need to go to a compositing application to create what might seem like a complex video wall. What Kevin is going to show you, in many cases, is created with a plug-in, but once you see how easy it is to create

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Media Composer

The New Customizable Avid MC7 Mixer

Are you sick of the HUGE MIXER that Avid Media Composer 6 and 6.5 had? Want your nice small mixer window that you enjoyed in Media Composer 5.5 and earlier? Media Composer 7 makes that possible.

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Media Composer

Advanced Avid FX 6 Training with Kevin McAuliffe

On June 27th, Toronto-based Avid editor and Creative Cow leader, Kevin P. McAuliffe, demonstrated the finer techniques of Avid FX 6 in Avid Media Composer. In just one hour, you’ll discover how to convert bitmaps to vector (extremely handy when a client gives you a jpeg!), clone with the paint tool and BCC Optical Stablizer,

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