Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

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

1. Fundamentals and Beyond

• 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

2. Inputting Media

• Review of importing media
• Editing from the Source Browser
• Using Consolidate
• Transcoding linked media files
• Transcoding a sequence
• Background processing

3. Preparing Dailies

• 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

4. Quick Editing Tools

• 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

5. Cutting and Recutting a Scene

• 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

6. Trimming Dialogue

• 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

7. Mixing Sequence Audio

• 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

8. Work with High-Resolution Media

• 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

9. Creative Retiming Effects

• 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

10. Tracking and Blurring Objects

• Creating a blur effect
• Setting up tracking for an effect
• Setting a region to blur
• Blurring multiple regions

11. Multilayer Effects

• 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

12. Nesting Effects

• Autonesting
• Changing the order of nested effects
• Adjusting nested effects
• Editing inside a nest
• Collapse tracks

13. Rendering Effects

• Measuring performance
• Rendering individual effects
• Rendering multiple effects
• Controlling render speed and quality
• Partial rendering
• Clearing existing renders to facilitate re-rendering

14. Creating Chroma Key Effects

• 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

15. Reviewing Your Project

• Adding Timecode burn-in
• Creating a watermark
• Using the Timecode window
• Using full screen playback

16. Output

• 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

17. Managing Project Media

• 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

Conclusion

• Practice media
• Goodbye