Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

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.

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

1. Introduction to Media Composer

• 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

2. Personalizing the Interface

• 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

3. Getting Started

• Creating a new project
• Understanding the project's format setting
• Understanding the project's color space setting
• Overview of import options
• Media Creation settings

4. Importing Media

• 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

5. Getting Ready to Edit

• Reviewing clips
• Marking clips
• Marking clips in a bin
• Adding comments and keywords
• Searching for clips
• Subclips
• Create a bin view

6. Preparing the Timeline for Editing

• 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

7. Editing with Splice-In and Overwrite

• 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

8. Working with Markers

• Add markers
• Timeline markers
• Select ranges with markers
• The Markers window

9. Drag-and-Drop Editing in Segment Mode

• 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

10. Moving Segments in the Timeline

• 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

11. Changing the Length of Timeline Segments

• 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

12. Useful Tools

• Undo
• Duplicate
• Play In to Out
• Search in visible Timeline text
• Lock tracks

13. Introduction to Transition Effects

• 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

14. Introduction to Segment 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

15. Combining Multiple Effects

• Auto-nesting
• Seeing multiple effects in the Effect Editor
• Displaying a nest in the timeline
• Changing the order of nested effects

16. Freeze Frames and Motion Effects

• Creating freeze-frames
• Creating a motion effect
• Creating motion effects using Fit to Fill
• Motion effect render methods

17. Creating Titles

• 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

18. Exporting Your Movie

• Exporting a video sequence
• Changing the export settings
• Creating an export preset

19. Technical Fundamentals

• Deleting media using the Media tool
• Recovering lost work
• Duplicating a project

Conclusion

• Goodbye