This video covers how to use copy and drag and gives some ideas on how you may want to use it. In Media Composer, select your clip(s), then press ALT (Option on Mac), and drag a copy of your clip(s) to anywhere you want on your timeline. This technique works to copy/duplicate video, audio, effects,
This video will show you how to use Replace Edit in Avid Media Composer. It’s an often overlooked feature that is powerful and time-saving. Also, see how to map REPLACE EDIT to your Keyboard and toolbar. By using Replace Edit, you can replace a clip and it will automatically be the exact length of the
Ever needed to re-patch a large group of clips up or down to a different track quickly and efficiently? Look no further! This tutorial shows you how to achieve exactly that using the Copy to Clipboard function on Avid Media Composer. Software used: Media Composer 8.5.1
No more searching through a hundred bins to find that one shot. This tutorial shows you the benefits to the Match Frame and Find Bin buttons in Avid Media Composer. Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 WEBSITE: http://redarrowindustries.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndu…
Whether you have two clips or 200, this tutorial will show you how to add the same effect to all of them at once in Avid Media Composer! Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 WEBSITE: http://redarrowindustries.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndu…
Sometimes you need to add more than one effect onto a clip to get that look you’re going for. This happens by nesting effects. Watch how to add multiple effects and what you can do to avoid affecting others, as well as how to step through them to make changes. Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3
Ever wanted multiple video tracks on top of each other to function as one? Check out this tutorial to learn about the Collapse tool! In addition, this tutorial will also show you how to step through your collapse to tweak a few things. Software used: Media Composer 8.5.3 WEBSITE: http://redarrowindustries.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/RedArrowIndu…
With credits including Brave, Finding Dory and the recent, charming Pixar short Piper, Sarah Reimers is now firmly established in the leading ranks of animation editing talent. But it was her experiences in film school — and the phenomenal levels of interest by her peers in directing — that encouraged her to pursue editing. Watch
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe goes back to basics and continues his talk about editing in the timeline by looking at how to add basic transitions to your timelines. Most people think that this is pretty straight forward, but when you have to add a slightly “custom” transition to your timeline, it needs a
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about basic editing techniques in Avid Media Composer, and also talks about how you can create different timeline views, including Audio Waveform as well as Audio mixing views, to make mulit-tasking in your day to day work, as simple as possible! http://www.provideocoalition.com/kmcauliffe/
In the last lesson in our look at editing Music Video, we talk about how to stylize your footage, without having to go to Adobe’s After Effects. Using some simple color correction, Animatte, and a couple of BCC Lite effects that, if you’re on the Media Composer Subscription plan, you get for free, you can
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at editing Music videos by starting to talk about effects work in your music video timeline. Transitions play a big part in the editorial process, and sometimes you need to use a program like AE to create transitions, or buy them from a third-party company. In
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe goes back to Basics with learning Multicamera editing, and talks about the ins and outs you’ll need to know to get up and editing with this technique quickly and easily. He looks at syncing your footage via Timecode or In points, and then dives into showing you how to
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at editing Music videos by talking about syncing up your footage to prep it for Multicamera editing inside of Media Composer. We take a look at Pluraleyes, a third party utility designed specifically for syncronizing non-timecoded clips, and the advantages and disadvantages of using this workflow.
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives an introductory look at editing Music Videos, and shows you how to get your project organized inside and outside of Media Composer. He also talks about getting your footage into Media Composer, and transcoding it, so it’s all ready to go. Music Video footage in this tutorial is
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