Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 14 – Bins Part 2: Bin Views
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 14 – Bins Part 2: Bin Views

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Bin Views inside of Avid Media Composer. Bin Views are how you are going to see the most important information about your clips, depending on the editing situation you are currently working in, so that the relevant information is displayed to you, and you can keep your…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 12 – Keyboard Settings & Command Palette
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 12 – Keyboard Settings & Command Palette

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about probably the most important of your settings, and it is the Keyboard Setting. Most people get frustrated right away, as they can’t figure out how to add commands to your keyboard and composer window, but that’s where the Command Palette comes into play, and gives you (almost)…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 11 – Import Settings Part 2 – Graphic Imports
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 11 – Import Settings Part 2 – Graphic Imports

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his discussion of the Import Settings inside of Media Composer, and uses graphic imports as a perfect example where if you don’t have these settings set correctly, you can run into a world of trouble very quickly.

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 10 – Import Settings Part 1 – Supported Codecs
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 10 – Import Settings Part 1 – Supported Codecs

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about your Import settings, and focuses in on a very important aspect of importing, and that is supported codecs inside of Media Composer. If you don’t set up your imports correctly, you’ll end up recompressing your footage, instead of re-wrapping it.

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 9 – Grid Settings & 4×3 Safe in 16×9 projects
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 9 – Grid Settings & 4×3 Safe in 16×9 projects

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about your Grid settings, but more importantly, he talks about a concept that, if you’re delivering your content to a TV station or network, you will need to know, and that is 4×3 safe inside of your 16×9 project.

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 3 – AD’s Media Copy
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 3 – AD’s Media Copy

ByFreddy

In this lesson, in our final look at archiving in Avid Media Composer, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about another third party utility to consider when you’re looking for an archiving utility, and that is Automatic Duck Media Copy. This simple to use, yet very powerful app will have you archiving your media composer timelines in…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 2 – Media Mover
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 2 – Media Mover

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about a third party utility to archive your projects called Media Mover. Whether you want to archive your entire sequence (all media), or everything in your project (Media, Precomputes, etc), Media Mover will make your life super simple with its easy to use interface, and it’s lightning fast…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 1
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Archiving your Project Part 1

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about how to archive your project in Avid Media Composer. There are Third Party utilities on the market, but if you’re on a budget, you can successfully back up a sequence to an external hard drive on your own, with this straightforward tutorial!

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding? Part 3: 2K/4K/UHD
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding? Part 3: 2K/4K/UHD

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe finishes his in-depth look at Transcoding by talking about working with larger than HD material. There are so many factors to keep in mind such as Source Settings, Proxy Timelines and Timeline Quality. This lesson will make sure you’re transcoding your larger than HD footage correctly every time!

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding Part 1: Under The Hood
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Transcoding Part 1: Under The Hood

ByFreddy

In this week’s lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe looks at the process of Transcoding. The first lesson in Transcoding focuses on the Linked to clips in your bins, and shows you how many “under the hood” features need to be considered and adjusted, before you can do the actual transcoding.

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Consolidating?
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – What is Consolidating?

ByFreddy

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about the most asked question he receives. What is the difference between Transcoding and Consolidating? Consolidating is up first, and Kevin gives you three examples of where you’re going to use Consolidating in your Media Composer workflows.