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Powderhouse Productions: Creating a Media Revolution

Business is literally booming for Powderhouse Productions, one of the most explosive forces in today’s non-fiction TV entertainment industry. And that, according to Rob Kirwan, Senior Vice President, Production and Post, “takes a whole other level of media management we’ve never had.” But now, with Avid Interplay Production and Unity ISIS networked storage platforms, Powderhouse

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #36: AMA with Red and Quicktime Files

NOTE: I had to trim this video down severely because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc36 With Media Composer 5, you can access Quicktime and R3D files natively using AMA (provided you have the horsepower). In this episode, I’ll show you how to link to AMA volumes, change the R3D source

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #33: Safe Color Limiter

Nothing fancy, but a solid workhorse: Want to make sure that your sequence is complying with technical broadcast standards? The Safe Color Limiter Effect is your friend. http://avidscreencast.com/asc33  

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #32: Blurring into / out of a Title

In this episode, we’ll transition into a title by starting with a blur and then slowly letting it focus. To do this we’ll have to look into how titles actually work, redoing it as a simple Matte Key and then manipulating Key and Fill to achieve out goal. You see, it’s fun for the whole

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #31: Curtain Transition

NOTE: I had to trim this video down because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc31 This week’s episode features a request from Youtube user Instantslugger, who wanted to know how to do a curtain transition within Media Composer. Turns out it’s not that hard. We’ll do it using Avid’s Paint effect

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Media Composer

Avid Screencast #30: Audio Timewarp

Everybody knows the Timewarp only applies to video. But what if you want to change the speed of your audio as well? In this episode, we’ll do just that with the help of a couple of different AudioSuite plugins that come with Media Composer. http://avidscreencast.com/asc30  

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Avid Screencast #28: Color Correction Basics VII – Vignettes and Wrap-Up

NOTE: I had to trim this video down because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc28 In the final installment of the Color Correction series, we’ll highlight parts of a shot by using a vignette. Then, I’ll go through some Color Correction options that I hadn’t mentioned in previous episodes. Here are

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