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This 3-minute video tutorial and article is on how to create a new track at a custom track number in Avid Media Composer.
This post is on how and why you would need to delete your Avid Media Composer database files in order to re-index your media. Simply put, re-indexing your media the most likely and easiest way to get offline media back.
This tutorial is on Favorite Bins in Avid Media Composer. You’ll learn what Favorite Bins are, to create them, to customize them and more.
This tutorial is on how to create a soft drop shadow on a title in Avid Media Composer. We’ll go through how to create a title, add a stroke, add a drop shadow, how to soften the drop shadow and how to save the title and insert it into a sequence.
This tutorial is on how to create a spotlight effect in Avid Media Composer. We’re going to track a fake home run into the stands.
This tutorial is on how to create a freeze frame in Avid Media Composer. I’ll show you how to perform a match frame, create a new freeze frame, how to add it to the timeline and how to adjust it.
This tutorial is on how to change the starting timecode of a sequence in Avid Media Composer. Learn how in under 3 minutes.
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Without fail the last two weeks of every year can be called the most anti-personal-and/or-work-related productivity period of the year.
Nothing gets done.
Nothing.
Ever.
At least nothing of any importance gets done towards your personal and/or professional goals.
Clients don’t respond. Producers go on vacation. It snows. Your in-laws stay at your house. You don’t want to workout because you’re waiting for January 1st. You are overburdened with last minute shopping and wrapping presents after one too many drinks.
I have a feeling that you’d rather use these two weeks to get something big finished instead. Maybe it’s something that’s been bugging you all year that you just didn’t get around to. Did you want to edit a family vacation video? Or write a short book? Start a website? Deep clean the garage? Why are we going to wait any longer to do these things when the opportunity is right in front of us?
I have a challenge for you. Let’s call it the End of 2014 Challenge. Together let’s take the next two weeks and complete one of these projects.
This tutorial is on how to zoom in and out of your Record Monitor in Avid Media Composer. I’ll show you a couple ways to do this and how to move around the monitor with the Hand Tool. Question of the Week: What’s the newest shortcut you’ve learned? Below are some useful links mentioned in … Read more
Soon I’ll be taking my first trip out of the United States and I’m making it a big one – I’m headed to Japan! In this post I’m going to go over what I’m doing to prepare for this lengthy vacation. I’d love for you to chime in too with your thoughts on what you do before going out of town. Thanksgiving for us in the US is right around the corner and the other winter holidays are fast approaching so I think the timing of this post is pretty ideal.
There’s nothing worse than being bothered on vacation or someone messing up your projects/media/hard drive/etc. especially when there’s nothing you can do about it. I’m sure I’ll come back to 1500 emails but I’m going to prepare my company and team the best I can for anything that can happen while I’m gone.