This week and next, we’ll create a semi-transparent video progress bar as you know them from Youtube et. al. We’ll create the elements in Marquee, then (next week) animate in Media Composer. The cool thing about this approach is that you’ll be able to change the length of the animation to fit your piece of…
How to move Media Composer projects to Avid DS and get started with finishing.
This week, another viewer suggestion: We’ll create the high-contrast, saturated look that is common to many sports trailers. We’ll also play around with BCC’s Glow and add some flicker to the shots.
Distort and degrade your shots to give it the look of surveillance camera footage.
Learn how to use Avid Media Composer’s animatte feature to color correct video. You will also learn how to create a moving matte using Avid Media Composer’s tracker.
In this last episode in the audio series, I’ll show you how to apply audio effects in Media Composer and a couple of neat real-world tips (like limiting you master output) that will hopefully help you out one day or another. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct links…
This week, we’ll look into Avid’s EQ Tool. It’s pretty basic (look for more powerful EQs in the AudioSuite), so’ll we’ll cover what it can and can’t do. Also: Build your own EQ preset into the Presets of the EQ’s fast menu. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct…
Ten random Avid DS tips from Igor Ridanovic. Hopefully one or two of these may come in handy some day.
Golf Channel is the non-stop shop for golf on cable. Now, collaboration is the name of its game as it puts a fully-integrated, Interplay-based workflow into play. Instead of working from separate islands, each contributor has become a much more integral part of the production team. Comments Lindsay Vassar, Video Editor, “the best part of…
Learn how to create the ‘Ken Burns’ effect using the Pan and Zoom feature within Avid Media Composer. You can view a full text based tutorial with screen shots on this same concept by visiting:
Learn to manipulate audio with keyframes. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct links to the other parts: Audio Basics I – Settings, Settings, Settings Audio Basics II – Stereo Tracks Audio Basics III – Very Basic Editing Audio Basics IV – Audio Mixer Audio Basics V – Audio…
Although it’s primarily relied upon for creating motion titles and graphics in 3D space, Avid® Marquee® can also make quick work of still graphics and titles. One example of this is the creation of lower-third graphics. Often times editors are asked to create multiple lower-third titles for a project with all the titles having a…
An in-depth look at Media Composer’s audio mixer. This is a seven part series with Audio Settings, here are direct links to the other parts: Audio Basics I – Settings, Settings, Settings Audio Basics II – Stereo Tracks Audio Basics III – Very Basic Editing Audio Basics IV – Audio Mixer Audio Basics V…
Learn how to edit directly from a bin window within Avid Media Composer without having to load the content into a source window.
Since being introduced in 2009, the AMA architecture has been expanded in Media Composer© 5.0 to include even more file-based formats. Now in MC5 users can directly link to and have immediate access to formats such as RED©, QuickTime© with H.264, QuickTime with ProRes, Canon’s new XF plug-in, the P2 DVCPRO© format, XDCAM HD, as…
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