Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook

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Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 4. Creating Split Edits

Introduction

Creating a Split Edit with Double Roller or Overwrite Trim

Creating a Split Edit with the Extend function

Creating a Split Edit with Asymmetric Trimming

Chapter 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

Chapter 6. Managing Your Media Files

Introduction

Moving media files

Copying a borrowed clip's media

Sharing clips/backing-up clips

Consolidating Subclips