While Media Composer and Symphony have a vast set of features, our free Getting Started training tutorials on Avid.com 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 mo re.
Corey Tedrow, Product Specialist at Avid, reviews what’s new with Media Composer 6, a fast and versatile solution for professional video editing with a 64-bit app for better performance and speed, Open I/O to facilitate 3rd party hardware, easy integration into any ProRes workflow, the ability to instantly access, screen and edit AVCHD clips and
With Stereoscopic filmmaking comes an entirely new set of creative techniques, rules and editing practices. Media Composer 6 includes a powerful, integrated stereoscopic workflow. In our free tutorial videos on Avid.com you’ll see how to take advantage of it. But, before we move on to specifics, there a few terms its important to understand. Become
Create 5.1 and 7.1 surround mixes directly within Media Composer 6, or import from Avid Pro Tools.
Use PhraseFind to quickly burrow into the audio of all the clips in your project to find a specific word or phrase! PhraseFind is one of the most talked about new features in Avid Media Composer. Released in v. 5.5, PhraseFind phonetically searches every clip in your project for a word or phrase that you
Immediately find exactly what you’re looking for with Media Composer’s new Find Tool! As we continue our video tutorial series on the new features in Media Composer 6, we thought we’d highlight the new Find Tool (which was technically introduced in Media Composer 5.5). Its powerful metadata searching capabilities will allow you to burrow deep
Now bundled with Media Composer 7.0 / NewsCutter 11.0 NewBlue Titler Pro video plug-in is a stunningly sophisticated titler designed with the professional editor’s schedule in mind.
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.
It’s easy to draw a line or a shape in Marquee and have your text crawl along the path. Just make a shape, convert it to a path, begin typing and set it to ‘crawl’. Four easy steps. This tutorial from Splice, one of Avid’s Canadian Training Partners with locations throughout Canada, shows you how.
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
This is a video showing how to open and edit ProRes files in AVID Media Composer 5.5 using Avid’s AMA feature. It allows you to edit very quickly without having to transcode. Video created by Luis Sierra of Chesapeake Systems
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
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