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These articles are on the Avid Media Composer video editing software. Learn virtually any aspect of the NLE here. And if you can’t find it here, check out our ultimate list of Avid Media Composer resources.
There are tutorials, courses, quizzes, and tons of insights from an editor with more than a decade of experience churning out videos from Media Composer.
Learn everything from bin management to restoring offline media from these articles. Here are some more things you can learn here:
This tutorial is on how to change, also known as, remap your keyboard in Avid Media Composer.
I’ll show you how to duplicate keyboard settings, add actions or shortcuts from the Command Palette onto your keyboard, add items from menus onto your keyboard and more.
I am SOOO excited. Today I’m launching my first ever product — an Avid Media Composer Bin with over 50 preset Quick Transitions. In the tutorial below you’ll find out how to create your own preset Quick Transitions. After watching the tutorial go here to get my Quick Transitions Bin. As always I come out with a new … Read more
Presets will make you a faster editor. This article discusses four areas where you can use presets in Avid Media Composer to save you time.
This tutorial goes over the essential timeline keyboard shortcuts in Avid Media Composer including how to zoom in, out and to a specific area.
This tutorial is on clip color in Avid Media Composer. I show you two ways to set clip color, how to remove it and how to set it to any color you want.
I’ve been married to my wife for nearly two and a half wonderful years. I’ve been married to my NLE, Avid Media Composer, for twice that. What I’ve learned over that time is that the two relationships are fairly similar. I’m going to explain to you how lessons learned through your significant other directly relate to how you should work with your NLE.
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In any relationship there is a learning curve. A man or woman never writes a user’s manual for himself or herself. That’s where you have an advantage with your NLE. Everything you need to know about it is right in front of you!
When I began editing on Avid Media Composer I had zero idea of what I was doing. None. I sat there for hours trying to figure out why I couldn’t click a clip in the timeline and move it (this was pre-Smart Tool). Then one day digging around my edit bay I found the software manual. I took it home and after a couple weeks had read the entire thing. This didn’t mean I knew everything about it but it did give me a huge heads up because I knew what it could and couldn’t do.
This tutorial is overviews the Paint Effect in Avid Media Composer. You’ll learn the following modes: Solid, Clone, Blur, Saturation & Erase.
This tutorial is on how to set the amount of default video and audio tracks are made when you create a new sequence in Avid Media Composer.
Today I decided to take a step back and look at what’s been going right for me in post production lately. I gathered some hardware essentials, software tips, productivity hacks and more for you in this post. After reading it this make sure to tell me what is working for you right now in post production. The first thing that’s working for me is literally by my side all day, everyday.
I absolutely love these external hard drives. I’ve used them for the past five years. I got introduced to Fantom Drives when my old production manager started buying their GreenDrives for deep storage of projects and shipping media to remote freelance editors when shop got too busy.
This quick tutorial is on how I setup my bins and folders for new projects in Avid Media Composer. Proper media management starts here.