Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 101

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

1. Get to Know Media Composer

• 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

2. Projects

• 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

3. Build Your Sequence

• 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

4. Drag-and-Drop Editing

• 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

5. Refine the Sequence

• Lasso to select
• Trim with the Smart tool
• Trim mode
• Trim monitors
• Sync locks
• Trim with the keyboard

6. Introduction to Transition Effects

• 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

7. Introduction to Segment Effects

• 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

8. Combine Visual Effects

• Combine segment effects
• Rearrange effect order
• Set preview quality

9. Freeze Frames and Motion Effects

• Create a freeze frame
• Change clip playback speed
• Create a four-point edit

10. Create Titles

• Create a title
• Edit a title

11. Export Your Video

• Export your sequence
• Adjust export settings
• Explore other output options

12. Technical Fundamentals

• Configure advanced autosave
• Delete project media
• Delete the media database
• Restore a bin from the Attic

Conclusion

• Next steps