AVID Media Composer Editing Essentials

1. Starting a Project

• Launching Media Composer Understanding the Select Project Window Learning the Interface
  • The Media Composer Interface
  • Rearranging Windows
• Editing Basic Workflow Creating a New Project
  • Set the Save Location
  • Create the Project
  • Open the Project
• Setting Up Your Project
  • Working with Bins
  • Identifying Objects in Your Bins
  • Changing Bin Layouts'
• Ingesting Your Media Preparing to Edit
  • Watching the Footage
  • Organizing Clips in Bins
  • Marking Clips
• Saving Your Work
  • Auto-Save
  • Manual Saves

2. Basic Editing

• Building Your Sequence
  • Creating a New Sequence
  • Adding Tracks
  • Making Your First Edit
  • Choosing the Source
• Understanding the Smart Tool Splicing Video Clips
  • Understanding the Four-Fame Display
  • Snapping to Edit Points
• Adding Narration with Overwrite Adjusting Sequence Audio
  • Setting Up for Audio Work
  • Using Solo and Mute
  • Changing the Volume of a Segment

3. Refining the Edit

• Deleting from the Timeline
  • Adding Cuts
  • Using Undo in the Creative Process
• Moving Timeline Segments
  • Rearranging Video Segments
  • Moving Audio Segments
  • Nudging Clips
  • Moving Segments Between Tracks
  • Selecting Multiple Segments
• Changing Shots in the Sequence
  • Replacing Existing Material
  • Creating Cutaways
• Changing the Length of Timeline Segments
  • A-Side Versus B-Side Trims
  • Dual-Roller Trim
  • Using Sync Locks
  • Quick View The Trim Mode Interface

4. Packaging and Output

• Adding Transitions
  • Creating Video Dissolves
  • Modifying Transitions
  • Creating Audio Crossfades
• Title Creation Tools
  • Opening the Avid Title Tool
• Quick View: The Avid Title Tool
  • Creating a Basic Title
  • Editing the Title to the Sequence
  • Modifying a Title
• Exporting Your Video
  • Exporting a File
  • Changing the Export Options
  • The Export Settings Dialog Box
  • Export A Movie File for YouTube

5. Project Organization

• Adding Information to Media Assets
  • Working with Text View
  • Saving Bin Views
  • Adding a Custom Column to a Bin
  • Entering Data
• Organizing Clips in Bins
  • Sorting the Bin
  • Sitting the Bin
  • Copying Items to Other Bins
  • Creating an Assembly Sequence
  • Opening a Bin from Another Project
• Prepping for the Edit
  • AutoSyncing Picture and Sound
  • Creating Group Clips
  • Creating Subclips
• Ending the Session

6. Building a Scene

• Working with Tracks
  • Adding Tracks
  • Manually Patching Tracks
  • Auto-Patching
  • Using the Track Control Panel
  • Displaying Audio Waveforms (Per Track)
  • Improving the Visibility of the Waveform
  • Toggling Source/Record in the Timeline
• Building Your Sequence
  • Using Splice-In
  • Maintaining Sync
  • Replacing Shots with Overwrite
  • Understanding Three-Point Editing
  • Removing Material from a Sequence
• Essential Tools
  • Using Find to Search for Clips
  • Fast Forward and Rewind
  • Navigating Using Timecode

7. Trimming Dialogue

• Understanding Trim
  • Pacing
  • Eliminating Dialogue
• Mastering Trim Mode
  • Entering and Exiting Trim Mode
  • Trimming with the Keyboard
  • Adding and Removing Frames When Trimming
  • Moving Between Edit Points
  • Scrubbing Audio While Trimming
  • Trimming on the Fly
  • Useful Trim Features
• Creating Split Edits
  • Trimming Split Edits
  • Changing the Center of the Trim Loop
• Maintaining Sync
  • Using Filler to Maintain Sync
  • Recognizing and Repairing Broken Sync
  • Using Trim Mode to Correct Sync

8. Reworking a Scene

• Ways to Use Sequences
  • Scratching Sequences
  • Copying to Clipboard
  • Loading Sequences into the Source Monitor
• Creating Sub-Sequences Finding Alternative Shots
  • Match Frame
  • Find Bin
• Using Markers
  • Using the Markers Tool
  • Adding Markers on the Fly
  • Removing Markers
• Timeline Tools
  • Selecting and Moving Multiple Segments
  • Extracting Top and Tail
  • Using the Extend Function
• Slipping and Sliding Segments
  • Slip: Changing the Contents of a Shot
  • Slide Changing the Position of a Shot
  • Slipping a Shot
  • Sliding a Shot

9. Mixing Sequence Audio

• Mixing Audio Efficiently Setting Up for Audio Mixing
  • Using the Audio Mixer
  • Adjusting Level and Pan in the Audio Mixer
  • Setting Pan and Level for Multiple Segments
  • Changing the Clip Gain Level of Master Clips
  • Changing the Output Volume of the Sequence
• Adjusting Audio with Volume and Pan Keyframes
  • Preparing the Timeline
  • Adding and Adjusting Keyframes in the Timeline
  • Adding and Adjusting Keyframes with the Audio Mixer
• Audio EQ Tool Understanding AudioSuite Plug-ins
  • BF Essential Clip Remover
  • De-Esser Dyn 3
  • D-Verb
  • Expander/Gate Dyn 3
  • Normalize
• Using AudioSuite Plug-Ins Applying AudioSuite to Master Clips

10. Approval and Output

• Understanding The Review Process Tools for Live Review Sessions
  • Using the Timecode Window
  • Using Full Screen Playback
• Preparing for Output
  • Understanding Delivery Specifications
  • Packaging a Sequence
  • Changing the Start Timecode
  • Adding Timecode Burn-In
  • Mixing Down Video
  • Miding Down Audio
• Performing an Output
  • Using the Send To Export Templates
  • Customizing a Send To Template
  • Exporting XDCAM Media
  • Disc-Based Delivery

11. Technical Fundamentals

• Understanding Compression, Codecs, and Wrappers
  • A Compression Story
  • Compressing Media
  • Video Format and Your Project
• Understanding Metadata
  • The Magic of Metadata
  • Metadata Versus Media Files
• Managing Your Media
  • Using the Media Tool
  • Understanding Consolidate and Transcode
• Fixing Technical Problems
  • Troubleshooting Missing Media Files
  • Recovering Lost Work