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The Bad Robot Facility: Everything Under One Roof

See how concurrent collaboration enables the teams to create more inspired content faster. Hear how the editors create full 5.1 temp audio mixes in Media Composer while they cut. Gain insight into J.J.’s workflow and the special elements that he himself creates. Take a peek at their unique workflow, featuring Media Composer, Pro Tools, and

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Media Composer

Introduction to Text Manipulation in Avid FX

Kevin P. McAuliffe explains how simple it is to input and format text within Avid FX. By using color, gradients, outlines, drop shadows, and style presets, Kevin shows you how easy it is to make your text really pop. Avid FX is included with Avid Media Composer, NewsCutter, and Symphony.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 43: The Marquee Title Tool 5

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_43 Exporting titles for 3rd Party Applications: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how easy it is to export Marquee titles for use in 3rd party compositing applications such as Adobe’s After Effects and Apple’s Motion. There are always exclusive plug-ins you wish you could apply to your titles inside of Media Composer

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 42: The Marquee Title Tool 4

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_42 Path Text Animation: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to animate text on a path, and also a couple of tricks to spice up your animation once it’s back in the Symphony interface.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 41: The Marquee Title Tool 3

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_41 Basic Animation & Rendering: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about basic animating in Marquee, and shows you why it’s better to do your animation there, as opposed to doing it in the 3D Warp tool. He also discusses rendering/saving out your titles, and how simple it is, so you’re back up and

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 40: The Marquee Title Tool 2

http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_40 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how simple it is to not only add drop shadows and strokes to your text, but also how to create true 3D extruded text right within the Marquee Interface.

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 39: The Marquee Title Tool 1

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_39 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you a “lay of the land” inside of the Marquee title tool by talking about the top and side tool bars, and showing how easy it is to not only create text, but do some otherwise complicated text adjustments, with a few clicks of the mouse.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 38: E-Mail Notifications

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_38 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to set up e-mail notifications, so Media Composer/Symphony will notify you when your renders, exports or transcodes are done. He also shows you some great settings tricks to streamline the process, and make sure you get the notifications you need as quickly as possible.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 37: Media Organization

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_37 Project Archiving: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewer’s e-mail about the organization of media outside of MC/Symphony, and then shows you how using a free, third-party media management application will make your archiving process quick and simple.

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 36: Advanced Exporting Part 4

library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_36 OMF Export for Audio Post: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how easy it is to set up a preset for exporting the audio in your sequence for audio post. He also shows you the ideal type of video file to export, so your audio engineer can check sync, and even shows

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Media Composer

Learn Media Composer Lesson 35: Advanced Exporting Part 3

http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_35 In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you a "hidden" gem inside of Media Composer and Symphony, and that is how to export a multichannel audio file. Most editors think that is is not possible in MC/Symphony, but Kevin shows you just how easy it is in a few short steps.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 34: Advanced Exporting Part 2

http://library.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_34 HD to SD Centercut: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about the importance of setting your title safe markers correctly to properly downconvert HD footage and centercut it, so that the image fills an entire 4×3 frame.

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Learn Media Composer Lesson 33: Advanced Exporting Part 1

ibrary.creativecow.net/mcauliffe_kevin/Avid-Media-Composer_33 HD to SD Letterbox: In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you why you don’t need any third party applications to create SD Letterboxed content from your HD footage. Not only does he show you how easy it is, but also shows you a great trick to get around titling issues when downconverting. Note

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Avid DS

Steve Hullfish Color Correction Tips

Has a director ever asked you if you can fix a few bad shots? Have you struggled to make a final sequence look better? Steve Hullfish brought the art of color correction from the dark arts to the light of day in 2002 with his book Color Correction for Digital Video: Using Desktop Tools to

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Avid Technology

Avid® Rough Cut ‒ Tim Squyres, Life of Pi

In this episode of The Rough Cut, I sit down with editor Tim Squyres on stage at the 2012 Boston SuperMeetUp. Tim, having just finished editing Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” the Monday prior, has lots to share about shooting and editing in 3D, the role of the assistant editor on feature films, and his

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