Overview
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Enhance your editing skills with Avid Media Composer. Learn advanced editing techniques to recut scenes, mix audio, work with high-res video, and apply effects and animation.
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
- Create a 4K project
- Stay organized in your project
- Manage system folders
- Manage media scaling
- About codecs and resolutions
- A review of importing media
- Edit straight from the Source Browser
- Consolidate media to a new drive
- Transcode media
- Import an image sequence
- Work with bin text view
- Open a bin from another project
- Create a group clip
- Sync picture and sound clips
- Create a stringout
- Create a storyboard edit
- Top and tail clips for quick edits
- Extend edits for improved timing
- Edit faster with phantom marks
- Copy and update your user settings
- Review basic editing tools
- The Clipboard Monitor
- More timecode control
- Navigate by timecode
- Make quick selections
- Create a subsequence
- Use a sequence as source
- Review of Trim mode
- Selective sync locks
- Trim on the fly with the JKL keys
- Using Add Edit to trim multiple tracks
- Perform a radio edit
- Slip and slide
- Fix a broken sync
- Audio editing tools
- Mix clip gain and pan
- Automate volume and pan changes
- Copy and paste keyframes
- Add audio EQ
- Audio ducking
- Add motion to a photo
- Use FrameFlex to animate a video clip
- Access FrameFlex in bins
- An overview of motion effects
- Use Timewarp on a clip
- Understand the Timewarp anchor frame
- Blur logos and faces
- Blur multiple objects in a shot
- Overview of a split-screen effect
- Create a multilayer picture-in-picture effect
- Use advanced keyframes
- Change nested clips and effects
- Optimize playback performance
- The Submaster effect
- Expert render
- Set up a sequence for chroma key
- Simple keying with SpectraMatte
- Create a title with NewBlue Titler Pro
- Key title-editing tools
- Add animation to a title
- Re-use NewBlue Titler Pro titles
- Package a sequence
- Add a burned-in timecode
- Add a watermark
- Review full screen
- Create a video and audio mixdown
- Send sequences for compression
- Back up your project
- Clean your storage
- Next steps
