Effect Editor Changes in Media Composer 5.5.2
Two updates to Media Composer’s Effect Editor: Start and End Key Frames is now available as a contextual menu pick and the default frame interpolation is now linear.
Mapping Your Editing Workspaces in Avid Media Composer
Every efficient editor should customize his or her editing workspace as much as possible. This video tutorial will teach you some powerful shortcuts to customize your own editing workspace in Avid Media Composer.
Exporting for Upload to Vimeo with Avid Media Composer
This video will show what settings you need to have to expoert HD material for uploading to Vimeo. Note: If your video is standard definition, set your data rate to 2000kbps and your display resolution to either 640×480 (4:3) or 640×360 (16:9). For more information and tutorials, please visit: vimeo.com/help/compression
Smart Tool – Avid Media Composer® 5 Overview
A subtle but very important change to Media Composer 5 is the addition of the Link Selection Tool as well as the Smart Tool editing palette. Historically in Media Composer, to make adjustments to a segment or transition, you would have to enter a specific mode. Now with the Smart Tool, depending where your cursor…
Real-Time AudioSuite (RTAS) Plug-Ins and Stereo Audio – Avid Media Composer® 5 Overview
There are a number of great new features in Media Composer 5 in terms of how you work with audio. We’ll start by looking at the new Stereo Audio feature. Now when you add an audio track to Media Composer you have the option of adding a mono track or stereo track. We no longer…
Waving Flag in Avid DS
Learn how to create a stylized 3D billowing flag in Avid DS. This effect is useful for lower thirds, backgrounds and other graphic elements. The tutorial comes with a free downloadable preset available at hdhead.com. By Igor Ridanovic. HDhead.com.
Avid DS Tutorial – Vignettes for Color Correction
Learn how to quickly build a preset for adding a vignette to your clips using the graphics tool and the color corrector as the fill layer in a custom shape.
New York Yankees: Make an Unbeatable Marketing Play with Avid
When the Yankees shoot a “day in the life of Derek Jeter” segment for Yankees On Demand, a weekly hour-long program of exclusive Yankees content, they rely on an end-to-end Avid workflow specifically constructed for sports marketers.
Water for Elephants: Media Composer Raises the Art of Collaboration to New Heights
Learn more: http://www.avid.com/US/products/family/Media-Composer?cmpid=AV-SM-MC5-3 With invisible, graceful editing and a workflow that makes the most of every hour of post-production—Media Composer raises the art of collaboration to new heights.
Breaking new ground with Interplay Central – Avid @ NAB 2011
Avid breaks new ground and expands the Interplay product family with Interplay Central. Interplay Central delivers next-generation workflow paradigm media creation, distribution and management.
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Avid DS Tutorial – Edge Blur with Custom Sliders
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…
Avid Screencast #53: Split Toning
Create interesting effects by pushing the shadows and highlights of a shot towards different hues.
Miami HEAT: Firing Up the Franchise Brand with Avid
For a professional sports team like the Miami HEAT, it’s not just about what happens during the game. When the rest of the world goes to commercial, HEATV goes to air, firing up the HEAT franchise brand with a wide array of media assets managed by the Avid Interplay production asset management system. “The name…
