Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 5
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 5

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…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 4
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 4

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…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 3
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 3

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…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 2
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 2

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….

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 1
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – ADVANCED – Editing Music Videos Part 1

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…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 8 – Export Settings Part 2
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 8 – Export Settings Part 2

In part 2 of our two part look at Export Settings, Kevin P McAuliffe talks how you can export your HD sequences as SD clips, this way avoiding using programs like Adobe’s Media Encoder or Sorenson Squeeze to do your downconversion, and then Kevin talks about the new 8.3.1 update to Media Composer, and how…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 6 – Settings Part 1
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 6 – Settings Part 1

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe begins his look at your Settings inside of Media Composer. Settings are what is going to get you up and running quickly on not only your own system, but on other systems you might find yourself on. There are so many options in settings, but Kevin will show you…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 5 – Bins Part 2
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 5 – Bins Part 2

In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe continues his look at bins, this time focusing on some hidden gems, that once you see, will really speed up your workflow. This is a great “power user” basic tutorial to show you how some not so obvious features can help you get your work done faster than ever…

Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 3 – Composer Overview & Intro to Bins
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Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Lesson 3 – Composer Overview & Intro to Bins

Jump forward in the video as the intro has some strange audio. In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you an overview of the Composer window, and also talks about bins, how to create them, organize them, and easily find them using the cool new search feature.