Welcome to Getting Started with Media Composer 6 and Avid Symphony 6. While Media Composer and Symphony have a vast set of features, these 7 Getting Started movies will cover the tools that matter to your everyday editing. We’ll explore topics like basic editing, trimming, using the Smart Tool, adding dissolves, loading AMA media, and
This is a quick look at Avid’s great new media composer software. Sorry about the audio quality. I had to get this done on limite time and resources. Lots of other work to do! • Rebuilt from the core 64 architecture • Modern sleek and efficient User Interface • Full industry-defining stereoscopic workflows • Avid
Learn the basics of compositing while building a moving filmstrip effect within Avid Media Composer.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
This tip will show you how to customize Timeline tracks or Bin backgrounds with your preferred colors, not the ones provided by Avid.
Check out this tip to quickly trim footage in the Timeline using Top & Tail – Media Composer.
In this video tutorial, you’ll explore how to replicate the famous “highlight-and-zoom” effect, made famous by documentarian Ken Burns. This Avid Media Composer video tutorial will show you how to: • Zoom in on an area of a still photograph using the Resize effect • Autonest a 3D Warp effect to combine multiple effects •
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