Overview
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Learn the basics of video editing in Avid Media Composer. Learn how to import, edit, and output high-quality, professional video, complete with titles and effects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching
- How to use the exercise files
- What's new in 8.7?
- What's new in 8.8?
- What's new in 8.9: Display options
- What's new in 8.9: Source browser
- Launch Avid Media Composer
- Overview of the Media Composer interface
- Work with tabbed panels
- Work with bins
- Create a user profile
- Set up workspaces
- Personalize the interface
- The Command palette
- Delete clips
- An editing overview
- Create a new project
- Import media
- Import with the Source Browser
- Media creation settings
- Install AMA plugins
- Adjust source settings
- Relink clips
- Understand project files
- Review clips
- Adjust clip audio level
- Organize clips in bins
- Find clips
- Create custom bin views
- Create a new sequence
- Move the timeline playhead
- Patch tracks
- Select part of a clip
- Create subclips
- Enable and disable tracks
- Use the Splice edit
- Use the overwrite edit
- Remove sections of a sequence
- Add edits
- Work with timecode
- Match Frame and Find Bin
- Fast-forward and rewind
- Master the Smart tool
- Edit with drag-and-drop
- Snap to edits
- Choose timeline views
- Adjust the audio mix
- Add markers
- Select ranges with markers
- Add sequence markers
- Lasso to select
- Trim with the Smart tool
- Trim mode
- Trim monitors
- Sync locks
- Trim with the keyboard
- Apply a quick transition
- Add audio transitions
- Adjust with the Smart tool
- Browse the Effect palette
- Meet the Effect Editor
- Save an effect template
- Remove transitions
- Apply segment effects
- Remove segment effects
- Stabilize a shot
- Automate color correction
- Hide jump cuts with Fluid Morph
- Keyframe audio level
- Resize a shot
- Keyframe segment effects
- Combine segment effects
- Rearrange effect order
- Set preview quality
- Create a freeze frame
- Change clip playback speed
- Create a four-point edit
- Create a title
- Edit a title
- Export your sequence
- Adjust export settings
- Explore other output options
- Configure advanced autosave
- Delete project media
- Delete the media database
- Restore a bin from the Attic
- Next steps
