Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

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.

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