Learn how to create an edge blur preset for Avid DS with expressions and custom sliders. Nice to have around for green screen compositing or to soften anything containing an alpha channel. Follow along to build the preset, save it, and then drop it into any effects tree with an alpha channel for fast and
Use text and graphics tool tips from Tutorial 1 and quickly create a show open with compositing and effects in Avid DS.
Tutorial explaining hotkeys, shortcuts, and best practices for creating and editing text in the graphics module within Avid DS, all the while seeing real-time feedback on your broadcast monitor for immediate WYSIWYG.
How to move Media Composer projects to Avid DS and get started with finishing.
Ten random Avid DS tips from Igor Ridanovic. Hopefully one or two of these may come in handy some day.
Learn how to create the ‘Ken Burns’ effect using the Pan and Zoom feature within Avid Media Composer. You can view a full text based tutorial with screen shots on this same concept by visiting:
Learn how to create a slideshow in Avid Media Composer by marking in-out points for all your clips at the same time. You’ll learn how to add transitions to all your slides with one click of the mouse.
Boris Continuum Complete AVX for Avid DS brings nearly 200 filters to Avid DS Version 10.2.1 and higher. BCC AVX is bundled with all Avid Media Composer and Symphony systems. With a BCC AVX for DS license, Avid facilities are able to conform sequences with AVX 2.0-based BCC effects for finishing in Avid DS.
Part 2 of “Premultiplication in Avid DS” teaches you the general basics of premultiplication. These skills come in handy when you need to deliver graphics elements created in DS to another system. To download Avid DS presets used in this and other tutorials visit hdhead.com Here is a link to part 1
Creating stereoscopic (S3D) titles in Avid DS is not hard. This manual takes advantage of the new stereoscopic tools in Avid DS 10.3.1. If you have an older version you can still create stereoscopic titles in 3D DVE, but you will need to take care of the stereoscopic multiplexing yourself. The preset used in this
This video tutorial teaches you the general basics of premultiplication. These skills come in handy when you need to deliver graphics elements created in DS to another system. To download Avid DS presets used in this and other tutorials visit hdhead.com Here is a link to part 2
NOTE: I had to trim this video down severely because of Youtube length limitations. See the full episode at http://avidscreencast.com/asc37 I’ve had several requests for tutorials on Pan and Zoom, so this week and next, this will be out topic. This week, we’ll look into Avid’s own Pan & Zoom effect. It is used to,
Create a Glow-like Film Flash Effect without using Boris Continuum Complete. http://www.avidscreencast.com/asc34
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
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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