Overview
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Learn to import, edit, refine, and output video using Avid Media Composer.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to the Avid Media Composer 110 course
- Using the exercise files
- What you should know before you begin
- An intro to the new Select Project window
- Introducing Avid UME
- Relinking media
- Learning the basic workflow
- Video resolution terminology
- About Avid codecs and resolutions
- Creating custom projects
- Create a 4K project
- Creating a new user profile
- Recap of the Avid Media Composer interface
- Stay organized in your project
- Project files and folders
- Manage media scaling
- Creating an All Columns bin view
- Review of importing media
- Editing from the Source Browser
- Using Consolidate
- Transcoding linked media files
- Transcoding a sequence
- Background processing
- Work with text view
- Cloning and duplicating clips
- Open a bin from another project
- Autosyncing picture and sound
- Syncing clips with marks
- Grouping clips
- Using group clips in a sequence
- Exporting and importing user profiles
- Customizing user settings
- Accessing macOS function keys
- Create a stringout
- Add a Timecode Burn-In effect
- Setting up the Timecode Burn-In effect
- Create a storyboard edit
- Adding markers to your rough cut
- Cutting down a sequence with Top and Tail
- Using the Extend function
- Adding markers on the fly
- Edit faster with phantom marks
- Ganging the monitors
- Review of basic edit tools
- Give yourself space to work
- Creating sub-sequences
- Go to Next Event and Go to Previous Event
- The Clipboard Monitor
- Displaying and navigating by timecode values
- Make quick selections
- Review of Trim mode
- Using Auto Focus when entering Trim mode
- Using Small Trim mode
- Mouse jog and mouse shuttle
- Choosing audio trim side
- Trimming with the keyboard
- Adding and removing frames with the numeric keypad
- Trim on the fly with the J, K, and L keys
- Selective sync locks
- Using Add Edit to trim multiple tracks
- Changing the center of the trim playback loop
- Scrubbing audio while trimming
- Fixing broken sync
- The Radio Edit technique
- Slipping and sliding segments
- Mixing audio efficiently
- Setting up for audio mixing
- Quickview of the Audio Mixer
- Monitoring audio levels
- Adjusting level and pan in the Audio Mixer
- Setting pan and level for multiple segments
- Changing the gain level of master clips in a bin
- Changing the output volume of the sequence
- Audio EQ tool
- Preparing the timeline for keyframing
- Adding and adjusting keyframes in the timeline
- Applying automation gain
- Copying and pasting keyframes
- Audio ducking
- Adding audio effects to a track
- Understanding adapter icons
- Hiding adapter icons
- Exploring the Source Settings dialog box
- Update source adapters in a sequence
- Using FrameFlex to modify shots in the timeline
- Using keyframes to animate the FrameFlex effect
- Introducing keyframe graphs
- Fixed and elastic keyframes
- Changing the behavior of the animation between keyframes
- Adding movement to a photo with FrameFlex
- Creating freeze-frames
- Creating a motion effect
- Performing a Fit to Fill edit
- Comparing Motion effects and Timewarp effects
- Creating Timewarp effects
- Understanding the Timewarp Speed Graph
- Keyframing a Timewarp effect
- Using the Anchor Frame
- Using Trim to Fill
- Working with Timewarp effects
- Creating a blur effect
- Setting up tracking for an effect
- Setting a region to blur
- Blurring multiple regions
- Three-point editing review
- Three-point editing review
- Creating a split-screen
- Create a multilayer PIP
- Animating the 3D PIP effect
- Selectively viewing tracks
- Adding multiple graph keyframes
- Removing keyframes
- 3D rotation
- Autonesting
- Changing the order of nested effects
- Adjusting nested effects
- Editing inside a nest
- Collapse tracks
- Measuring performance
- Rendering individual effects
- Rendering multiple effects
- Controlling render speed and quality
- Partial rendering
- Clearing existing renders to facilitate re-rendering
- Set up a sequence for Chroma Key
- Applying the SpectraMatte effect
- Viewing the Matte channel
- Cropping the SpectraMatte effect
- Viewing the SpectraGraph
- Adjusting the SpectraMatte
- Dealing with spill
- Refining the edges of the matte
- Adjusting SpectraMatte scaling and position
- Adding Timecode burn-in
- Creating a watermark
- Using the Timecode window
- Using full screen playback
- Timing your sequence start
- Adding bars and tone
- Mixing down video
- Mixing down audio
- Preparing to output from mixdown files
- Configuring export settings
- Creating an export preset
- Customizing a Send To template
- Identifying a media file
- Restoring master clips to a bin from the Media tool
- Deleting render files with the Media tool
- Deleting unused project media
- Deleting all project media
- Back up your project
- Practice media
- Goodbye
