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Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

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Overview

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

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. Fundamentals and Beyond
  • Create a 4K project
  • Stay organized in your project
  • Manage system folders
  • Manage media scaling
  • About codecs and resolutions
2. Input Media
  • A review of importing media
  • Edit straight from the Source Browser
  • Consolidate media to a new drive
  • Transcode media
  • Import an image sequence
3. Prepare Dailies
  • Work with bin text view
  • Open a bin from another project
  • Create a group clip
  • Sync picture and sound clips
4. Quick Edit Tools
  • 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
5. Recut a Scene
  • Review basic editing tools
  • The Clipboard Monitor
  • More timecode control
  • Navigate by timecode
  • Make quick selections
  • Create a subsequence
  • Use a sequence as source
6. Pace Scenes with the Trim Tools
  • 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
7. Mix Sequence Audio
  • Audio editing tools
  • Mix clip gain and pan
  • Automate volume and pan changes
  • Copy and paste keyframes
  • Add audio EQ
  • Audio ducking
8. Work with High-Resolution Media
  • Add motion to a photo
  • Use FrameFlex to animate a video clip
  • Access FrameFlex in bins
9. Creative Retiming Effects
  • An overview of motion effects
  • Use Timewarp on a clip
  • Understand the Timewarp anchor frame
10. Track and Blur Objects
  • Blur logos and faces
  • Blur multiple objects in a shot
11. Multilayer Effects
  • Overview of a split-screen effect
  • Create a multilayer picture-in-picture effect
  • Use advanced keyframes
12. Nest Effects
  • Change nested clips and effects
  • Optimize playback performance
  • The Submaster effect
  • Expert render
13. Create Chroma Key Effects
  • Set up a sequence for chroma key
  • Simple keying with SpectraMatte
14. Animate Titles and Graphics
  • Create a title with NewBlue Titler Pro
  • Key title-editing tools
  • Add animation to a title
  • Re-use NewBlue Titler Pro titles
15. Package and Export
  • Package a sequence
  • Add a burned-in timecode
  • Add a watermark
  • Review full screen
  • Create a video and audio mixdown
  • Send sequences for compression
16. Manage Your Project Media
  • Back up your project
  • Clean your storage
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Maxim Jago

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