Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Get up and running with Avid Media Composer. This project-based course covers each aspect of the editing process—from importing media to exporting a complete video sequence.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the lesson files
- Refreshing the media database
- What you should know before you begin
- Intro to MC 2020: Part 1 an intro to the new Select Project window
- Intro to MC 2020: Part 2 introducing Avid UME
- Intro to MC 2020: Part 3 relinking media
- Launching Media Composer
- Creating a user profile
- Overview of the Media Composer interface
- The Bin Container window
- Creating bins
- Floating and docking windows
- Working in bins
- Filtering bins
- Sifting bins
- The Bin Map
- Introducing the Composer window
- Keys and buttons in the Composer window
- The Timeline window
- Setting up workspaces
- Adjusting settings
- Introducing the Command Palette
- Command Palette: Button to Button mode
- Command Palette: Menu to Button mode
- The keyboard setting
- Adjusting auto-save settings
- Creating a new project
- Understanding the project's format setting
- Understanding the project's color space setting
- Overview of import options
- Media Creation settings
- Importing
- Overview of the Source Browser
- Linking with the Source Browser
- Importing with the Source Browser
- Importing audio media
- Installing AMA plugins
- Deleting unwanted clips
- Working with source settings
- Relinking media files
- Adjusting source clip audio level
- Reviewing clips
- Marking clips
- Marking clips in a bin
- Adding comments and keywords
- Searching for clips
- Subclips
- Create a bin view
- Creating a new sequence
- Move the timeline playhead
- Working with tracks
- Patching tracks
- Monitoring video tracks
- Displaying and adjusting waveforms
- Toggling source: Record in the Timeline
- Selecting source and record tracks
- Building your sequence with Splice-in
- Inserting a shot
- Maintaining sync when splicing in clips
- Understanding filler
- Editing with Overwrite
- Removing material with the Lift tool
- Removing material with the Extract tool
- Adding edits
- Working with timecode
- The Timecode window
- Match Frame
- Find Bin
- Go to Next Event and Go to Previous Event
- Add markers
- Timeline markers
- Select ranges with markers
- The Markers window
- The Smart Tools
- The Settings keyboard shortcut
- Smart Tool settings
- Dragging options
- Automatically creating a sequence
- Drag and drop to Splice-in
- Drag-and-drop overwrite
- Timeline View options
- Dark and light text
- Dupe Detection
- Digital audio scrub
- Change the volume of a segment
- Soloing and muting tracks
- Selecting and deleting segments
- The Link Selection toggle
- Rearranging with Extract and Splice-in
- Rearranging with Lift and Overwrite
- Lasso to select
- Buttons for selecting segments
- Replacing existing material
- Trim with the Smart tool
- Trim the start of a clip
- Dual-roller trimming
- Trim mode
- J-cuts and L-cuts
- Using Lasso to set trim handles
- Using Sync Locks
- Trim with the keyboard
- Undo
- Duplicate
- Play In to Out
- Search in visible Timeline text
- Lock tracks
- Adding quick transitions
- Adding multiple transition effects
- Modifying transition effects in the Timeline
- Accessing effects from the Effect Palette
- Modifying effects in Effect mode
- Creating an effect template
- Removing transitions
- Add audio transitions
- Replacing standard transition effects
- Types of effect
- The Effect Palette
- Applying segment effects
- Removing segment effects
- The Effects workspace
- Flop a shot
- Stabilize a shot
- Locking down a shot
- Configure automatic color correction
- Apply automate color correction
- Hiding jump cuts with Fluid Morph
- Advanced Fluid Morph settings
- Resize a shot
- Animate a shot with keyframes
- Auto-nesting
- Seeing multiple effects in the Effect Editor
- Displaying a nest in the timeline
- Changing the order of nested effects
- Creating freeze-frames
- Creating a motion effect
- Creating motion effects using Fit to Fill
- Motion effect render methods
- Create a title with the Avid Titler+ Tool
- Exploring the Avid Titler+ formatting options
- Shadow, edge, and frame options
- Default title parameters
- Saving a title
- Modifying a title
- Creating shapes
- Fading a title up and down
- Using Head Fade and Tail Fade
- Removing titles
- The Video Quality menu
- Exporting a video sequence
- Changing the export settings
- Creating an export preset
- Deleting media using the Media tool
- Recovering lost work
- Duplicating a project
- Goodbye
Taught by
Maxim Jago
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