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Media Composer

Mapping Media Composer Shortcuts

Learn how to configure the go to next edit buttons by using Avid Media Composer’s command pallete. If you’re a Media Composer user, you may have noticed the ‘A’ and ‘S’ keys are labeled as ‘Go to Previous Edit, and ‘Go to Next Edit’. That’s true.  However, these keys also send you directly into trim

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Media Composer

Tag ’em fast!

A quick way to tag your footage with Meta-data. Add custom columns and fill ’em up! Create custom columns with metadata in Avid Media Composer.

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Media Composer

Animated Text on Path with Avid Marquee

It’s easy to draw a line or a shape in Marquee and have your text crawl along the path. Just make a shape, convert it to a path, begin typing and set it to ‘crawl’. Four easy steps. This tutorial from Splice, one of Avid’s Canadian Training Partners with locations throughout Canada, shows you how.

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Media Composer

Avid in FCPv7’s Clothing

You switched from FCPv7 but now instinctively press the wrong keys and reach for buttons that are’t there? By Customizing Media Composer, it can act a bit more like FCPv7. In this tutorial from Avid’s Canadian Training Partner, Splice Training, we learn how to customize the appearance of the Timeline and Composer Monitor, as well

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Media Composer

Marquee’s Animation Mode + The Hidden Keyframe Curves

Avid Marquee is capable of easy 2D and 3D animation, but it might not be obvious at first glance because the animation controls are hidden. Switching Toolsets is all it takes to reveal them. This video explains how. For more information, come take a course at one of Splice’s training centres throughout canada.

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Avid Marquee: Re-creating the Lord of the Rings Logo PART 2 of 2

In this lesson, we re-create the Lord of the Rings logo using Avid Marquee. The logo is challenging in that various characters have different sizes, so we use that to gain a better understanding of the Text Box, as well as the relationship between Text Boxes, Groups and Characters, which can be viewed in the

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Media Composer

Avid Marquee: Re-creating the Lord of the Rings Logo PART 1 of 2

In this lesson, we re-create the Lord of the Rings logo using Avid Marquee. The logo is challenging in that various characters have different sizes, so we use that to gain a better understanding of the Text Box, as well as the relationship between Text Boxes, Groups and Characters, which can be viewed in the

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Media Composer

Embed Images in Rolling Titles

How do you embed logos into rolling titles? Use Marquee, Import Image and drop the image into a Rolling Text box. Also demonstrates how to setup columnized text.

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Media Composer

Sync Point Editing

A fantastic Tip on how to quickly synchronize a music beat to the Video in the Timeline. Same thing for synchronizing a Video frame to existing audio in the Timeline.

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Media Composer

Autotitling with Marquee

Here is a nice tip on how to generate titles using Marquee’s Autotitler feature. You don’t need to be an expert on Marquee to use this amazing time-saver.

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