Book Description
What better way to learn the professional editing possibilities of Avid Media Composer than by trying out practical, real-world examples? This book has over 160 hands-on recipes and guidance covering both basic and advanced techniques.
- Hands-on recipes in a step-by-step logical approach to quickly get started with Avid Media Composer and gain deeper understanding
- Learn Avid Media Composer in a completely new way— gain intensive exposure with various editing options to develop your abilities, become even more creative, and acquaint yourself with various methods that you never thought were possible
- Understand not only why it works, but also how it works and browse through lots of tips and techniques to perform professional quality editing
In Detail
Avid Media Composer has quickly become the tool of choice for Editing professionals, when it comes to Non-Linear Editing. Whether your project involves editing heavy television programming, independent films, or even corporate industrials, this cookbook shows you exactly how to successfully do that, in a step-by-step and practical manner, to get the most out of the latest Avid Media Composer 6.
""Avid Media Composer 6 Cookbook"" is an expert, clear and logically-sequenced resource with highly effective recipes for learning Avid Media Composer essentials and beyond with a task-based approach. It is your one-stop shop to learn professional-quality editing quickly and easily.
This book helps you get the most out of Media Composer 6 to gain a deeper understanding of the software. It will familiarize you with the essentials, common as well as core editing features, tips and techniques that help you get to the grips with powerful capabilities of Media Composer 6.
You will understand Import settings, mixing frame rates and understanding AMA (Avid Media Access) along with thorough explanations of Trim Mode, Segment Mode, and the Smart Tool. You will learn to customize your work environment with Wordspaces, Bin Layouts, Timeline Views, Bin views, Keyboard Mapping, and much more. The recipes inside are packed with practical examples, time-saving tools and methods and everything you need to make captivating videos.
Table of Contents
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Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project
- Introduction
- A strategy for project organization at the desktop level
- Understanding Media Creation settings
- Mixing frame rates
- Tape capture tip: Adding Markers while Capturing
- Tape capture tip: Making Subclips while Capturing
- Logging clips tip: Logging from the keyboard
- Logging clips tip: Keeping the Capture Tool active after logging a clip
- Quickly calculating total duration of clips (or any items in a bin)
- Combining available drive space and/or controlling where media is stored
- Making sure your Batch Capture continues without you
- Modifying clips before capture
- Modifying clips after capture: Adding tracks
- Modifying clips after capture: Deleting tracks
- Capturing and editing at the same time
- Preparing to use AMA (Avid Media Access): Getting the plug-ins
- AMA (Avid Media Access) linking
- Getting the AMA file's image to display as desired
- Consolidating (copying) AMA Master Clips
- Transcoding AMA Master Clips before beginning to edit
- Transcoding AMA Master Clips after editing has begun
- Consolidating an AMA sequence or subclips
- Transcoding an AMA sequence
- Importing stills and video files such as QuickTime
- Importing audio
- Adjusting audio levels before editing
- Adjusting audio pan settings before editing
- Setting stereo-audio tracks
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2. Customizing Your Work Environment
- Introduction
- Settings overview
- Creating Site Settings
- User Profile Settings – transferring to another workstation
- Interface settings
- Font size adjustment
- Creating Bin Views
- Creating Timeline Views
- Customizing Workspaces
- Creating Bin Layouts
- Linking Bin Layouts with Workspaces
- Linking other settings with Workspaces
- Mapping Workspaces and Bin Layouts
- Mapping buttons and menu selections
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3. Polishing Gems
- Introduction
- Understanding Track Sensitivity
- Snapping actions for the Position Indicator and in Segment Mode
- Enabling and disabling all Track Selectors from the keyboard
- Enabling and disabling Track Selectors using the Shift key plus drag method
- Enabling and disabling Track Selectors using the Lasso
- Replace Edit: How and why
- Sync Point Editing: How and why
- Seeing source material in the Timeline Window
- Clipboard tips
- Using the Match Frame function
- Using the Reverse Match Frame function
- Setting clip colors in a bin
- Setting clip colors in the Timeline Window
- 4. Creating Split Edits
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5. Maintaining and Regaining Sync
- Introduction
- Adding Filler within a sequence with Splice or Overwrite
- Adding Filler at the end of a sequence
- Sync Break Indicators: Understanding them and making your own
- Splicing and Extracting: Methods for staying in sync without Sync Locks
- Segment Mode: Methods for staying in sync
- Using the option/Alt + Add Edit method to stay in sync in Trim Mode
- Asymmetric Trimming type 1: A-Side/B-Side
- Asymmetric Trimming type 2: Two Heads/Two Tails
- Opening up the sequence using Splice with Sync Locks enabled
- Extracting with Sync Locks enabled
- Extending using Ripple Trim with Sync Locks enabled
- Shortening using Ripple Trim with Sync Locks enabled
- Getting back in sync
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6. Managing Your Media Files
- Introduction
- Moving media files
- Copying a borrowed clip's media
- Sharing clips/backing-up clips
- Consolidating Subclips
- Consolidating Sequences
- Transcoding Sequences for archiving or before up-res
- Transcoding Sequences of mixed SD and HD video
- Changing the Sample Rate of clips in a bin before editing them into your Sequence
- Changing the mismatched audio that has been edited into your Sequence
- Prevent editing with audio that does not match the Project's Sample Rate
- Setting the Media Tool display
- Borrowing a clip from another Project
- How to determine where media files are stored and how to move them
- Isolating video of a specific resolution
- Deleting specific media files from clips (for example, just the A3 and A4 files)
- Deleting unused media files: Just Master Clips, just Precomputes, or both
- Locking Clips and Sequences
- Locking sequences to make them less easily editable
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7. Mono and Stereo Audio Mixing
- Introduction
- Understanding the Track Control Panel and Keyframe Selection Tool
- Understanding the Audio Mixer Tool – Clip Mode
- Understanding the Audio Mixer Tool – Auto Mode
- Understanding the Audio Tool (Audio Meters)
- Understanding Clip Gain and Pan versus Volume and Pan Automation
- Understanding Audio Project Settings
- Performing audio scrubbing: digital type scrubbing
- Performing audio scrubbing: analogue type scrubbing
- Displaying Audio Waveforms ( also known as Sample Plot)
- Displaying Clip Gain, Volume Automation, and Pan Automation in the Timeline
- Clip Mode Level and Pan Adjustments
- Using Clip Mode with Dissolves to smooth Level and Pan adjustments
- Clip Mode: Setting a common Level or Pan to multiple segments
- Clip Mode: Adjusting multiple segments by a uniform amount
- Manually adding and adjusting Volume and Pan Automation keyframes
- Removing/Deleting Volume and Pan Automation Keyframes
- Adjusting multiple audio keyframes simultaneously
- Real Time Volume and Pan Adjustment
- Creating Stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 ("Multichannel") Tracks in a Sequence
- Converting a multichannel track into mono tracks in a Sequence
- Making Multichannel Clips (Stereo, 5.1 and 7.1)
- Using AudioSuite Plug-ins
- Removing AudioSuite plug-ins
- Saving and Applying AudioSuite Templates
- Using Real Time Audio Suite (RTAS) Plug-Ins
- Removing RTAS plug-ins
- Saving and Applying RTAS Effect Templates
- Copying RTAS Effects between Tracks
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8. Editing with Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode
- Introduction
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Syncing and Grouping clips with common timecode
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Syncing and Grouping Clips with common reference points
- Creating a syncing Sequence for syncing and grouping clips
- Using the Group Clip Menu
- Using the Multicamera display and methods of switching camera angles
- Swap Cam Bank: Toggling the MultiCamera Display
- Editing with a Group Clip – not using MultiCamera Mode
- MultiCamera Mode Editing
- MultiCamera Mode Settings
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9. Output Tips and Tricks
- Introduction
- Creating accurate Color Bars and Tone
- Methods for setting Sequence Timecode
- Adding Filler for Color Bars, Tone, and Slate
- Exporting a still image
- Exporting multiple still images using Markers
- Exporting a QuickTime Reference Movie
- Exporting a QuickTime Movie (Self Contained)
- Using the Timecode Burn-In effect
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A. Additional Tips, Tricks, and Explanations
- Find Bin Function Tips
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Moving around: Methods and tips
- Play Reverse, Pause, and Play Forward (also known as JKL or Three-Button Play)
- Fast Forward and Rewind
- Go to Previous/Next Edit
- Home and End (also known as Go To Start and Go To End)
- Frame Offset – Jumping Forward or Backward by Typing
- Timecode
- Step Forward and Step Backward by Frames
- Step Forward and Step Backward by Fields
- Getting more use from the Grid
- cmd/Ctrl + L and K: Several uses
- Locking and unlocking
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B. Details on Trimming, Slipping, Sliding, and Segment Mode
- Trimming terminology
- Trimming icons and colors
- How Trimming works
- Enabling and configuring the Trimming Tools
- Trimming methods
- Monitoring during Trimming
- Slipping with Trim Mode
- Slipping outside of Trim Mode
- Sliding in Trim Mode
- Trimming and effects
- Smart Tool overview
- Using the Trim functions in the Smart Tool
- Using Segment Mode with the Smart Tool
- Nine Segment Mode Tips
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C. Helpful Details about MultiCamera Editing
- Uses for Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode
- Definition of a Group Clip
- Definition of a MultiGroupClip
- Definition of MultiCamera Mode
- Overview: Syncing Methods
- Editing multiple camera angles without Group Clips
- MultipleCamera Editing Resolutions
- Understanding System Performance with Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode
- Index