If you’re not getting what you need to succeed—or you’re a former Avid user who switched (we’d love to have you back)—join award-winning editor Kevin P McAuliffe to get started fast. In the first of our “Get Started Fast with Avid for Final Cut Pro 7” tutorials, Kevin P McAuliffe takes you through the basics…
In the fifth and final of our “Get Started Fast with Avid Media Composer 7” tutorials, we wrap-up our introductory look at Avid editing. In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe demonstrates how to move your finished project from Media Composer. Whether you are destined for the web, creating a DVD or Blu-Ray, or outputting to…
In the fourth of our “Get Started Fast with Avid Media Composer 7” tutorials, we’re ready to give your projects a professional polish with eye-catching effects. In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe demonstrates basic transitions, like dissolves and color flashes. Then, he takes effects to the next level with the 3D Warp tool. Kevin shows…
Boris FX’s Paul Ezzy delivers a step-by-step Avid FX/Boris RED tutorial inspired by the upcoming “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” title sequence. Learn how to create this highly customized look with the ease of vector trace, the creation of 3D objects and 3D extruded text, quick animation of each letter separately, and the addition…
In the third of our “Get Started Fast with Avid Media Composer 7” tutorials, it’s time to start editing. In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe demonstrates basic editing technique in Avid Media Composer. He reveals how to perform a music mix fast, and how to trim footage in your timeline like a pro. Kevin completes…
In the second of our “Get Started Fast with Avid Media Composer 7” tutorials, Kevin P McAuliffe shows you how to get your footage into Media Composer. Whether you’re digitizing from tape, importing media from another NLE or compositing application, or AMA linking to it, this lesson will get your footage ready to edit in…
In the first of our “Get Started Fast with Avid Media Composer” tutorials, Kevin P McAuliffe takes you through the basics of Project creation, the layout of your Media Composer interface, some common settings including bin and keyboard settings, as well as the Command Palette and shows you some great bin features that will get…
Learn how to nest effects within Avid Media Composer. Learn the difference between expanded nesting and simple nesting techniques.
Manhattan Edit Workshop’s Director of Education Janet Dalton shows how to use the Two Point Tracker feature of Avid Media Composer 7.
Learn audio mixing shortcuts within Avid Media Composer 7 Define your own keyboard shortcuts using Command Palette tips.
Part II of “Recreating the Universal Studios Logo”, you’ll create a 3D animated globe from a flat image. Plus you’ll manipulate rotating cameras, add BCC filters (Glow, Hue-Sat-Lightness, Levels Gama and Clouds), and enhance the multi-dimensional effect with 3D shadows. In combo with Part I, your new logo or opening graphic can be applied across…
In this two-part series of Boris TV, Paul Ezzy shows you how to recreate the iconic Universal Studios logo – animated 3D text on an animated 3D globe. The versatile logo or opening graphic style can be applied across multiple genres, including a global newscast, an environmental docu-series or a reality series race. In Part…
Boris FX’s Paul Ezzy breaks down the power of BCC Pin Art, an OpenGL-accelerated particle-based 3D generator in the latest episode of Boris TV. This two-fold tutorial shows you not only how to add a “pixel-disintegration” transition (think the pixels from an old-school Atari game) to your footage, but also how to take advantage of…
What does being an editor mean to you? Sound off in the comments, or tell us on Twitter with hashtag #ToBeAnEditor. The team recently had the chance to interview an amazing group of professional editors in filmmaking and post production. Each had a unique take on the role of the modern editor and explained why…
Learn how to create a 3D text object with moving video inside the text object using Avid FX.
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