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Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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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
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

Taught by

Maxim Jago

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