An Introduction to Avid Media Composer
An Introduction to Avid Media Composer is the first step in achieving confidence, creativity, and efficiency with Avid Media Composer, the nonlinear film/video editing application used in most movie and television productions.
This self-paced online class is an introductory course designed to get a new user up and running on the software. In this course, students develop an understanding of the video editing process and the basic skills to edit a video project from start to finish. This includes understanding the relationship between media and project files, the location of media storage, the ability to create project files, import source video and audio files, edit the sequence, add titles, music, and basic effects, and then export the finished sequence.
Meet the Instructor
Chad Anderson is a college professor, animation geek, poet, video editor & skateboarder from the Jersey Shore. He has worked on a range of editing and visual effects projects for corporate, educational, broadcast, non-profit, and military organizations across the country (and once in Korea). Previous clients have included E! Entertainment, "The Charlie Rose Show," the WB, The Count Basie Theatre, and a film that went straight to video, starring John Stamos. He holds a Master’s in Education from NJCU and has been teaching for over 18 years. His favorite movie is "Joe Versus the Volcano."
Course Breakdown:
Getting Started With This Course
How To Download and Install Projects and Media for This Course (14:49)
Projects and Media to Download
Lesson 1: Setting Up Your Software
Opening The Software (9:38) (Audit This Lesson)
Bins (7:58) (Audit This Lesson)
Bin Views (9:01)
Settings (10:55)
Button Remapping (9:57)
Lesson 2: Getting Started With Avid Media Composer
Importing Footage (10:08)
Link (9:35)
Transcoded Linked Clips (10:32)
Media Management (11:11)
Lesson 3: Basic Editing
Playing and Marking Clips (9:49)
Three Point Editing (11:38)
Adding Cutaways (10:12)
Lift & Extract (8:13)
Adding B-Roll on Upper Tracks (8:38)
Timeline Editing (11:48)
Lesson 4: Segment Mode Editing
Extract/Splice-in Segment Mode (9:06)
Lift/Overwrite Segment Mode (5:51)
Drag & Drop (8:00)
Drag & Drop Timeline (10:49)
Lesson 5: Trimming
Single Roll Trimming (9:38)
Single Roll Each Side (10:27)
Advanced Trimming (10:58)
Breaking Sync (9:58)
Fixing Broken Sync (6:52)
Dual Roll Trim (10:23)
Lesson 6: Transition Effects
Adding Basic Transitions (8:08)
Transition Parameters (9:11)
Transition Keyframing (10:48)
Transition Alignment (9:47)
Transition Corner Display (5:21)
Lesson 7: Segment Effects
Segment Effects (7:36)
Animating Segment Effects (8:34)
Color Correction Effect (8:34)
Stabilize & Fluid Morph (9:36)
Lesson 8: Audio
Basic Audio Controls (10:33)
Audio Mixer (8:49)
Lesson 9: Combining Effects
Nested Effects (10:10)
Lesson 10: Speed Effects
Motion Effects (10:29)
Lesson 11: Titles
Creating Titles (8:05)
Animating Lower 3rds (5:57)
Lesson 12: Exporting
Exporting out of Avid (6:10)
Exporting for YouTube (5:14)
Lesson 13: Media Management
Media Tool (8:23)
Relink (8:41)
Transcode Footage (9:19)
Proxy WorkFlow (8:08)