PROFESSIONAL TOOLKIT: Avid Training Lesson 1
During our first lesson with Avid Media Composer, we learned about the following:
- Basic User Interface
- Creating a Project
- Importing Media / Bins
- Organising Media
- Saving
- Creating a Sequence
- Basic Editing Funcions / Keyboard Shortcuts
- Basic Audio
- Trimming
These are all covered in Lessons 1 till 3 in the "Media Composer Editing Essentials" book.
Also i was introduced to some of the basic key shortcuts needed to speed up editing. These are the main ones i believe that i will be using:
- J, K and L = Backwards, Pause, Play (hitting the key twice will go in to fast motion)
- Spacebar = Play & Pause
- I, O = mark In, mark Out
- V = Splice
- B = Overwrite
- Left, Right or 3,4 = Skip by one frame backwards, forwards.
- M, comma, period, / = Nudge Clip
- T = Mark Clip
- Z, X = Extract, Lift
During the exercises we edited a promo video for a mission helping bring solar power and education to a community. The edit consisted of numerous shots showing the culture and the mission's work, voice overs extracted from interviews, a music bed and a logo at the end (as illustrated in the first photo).
After the lesson, during the next few days at home i've read through lessons 1-3 and i've continued on the exercises cause we didn't have enough time to complete them. Using Avid in my own time seems to build up my confidence with the software and make me feel more comfortable using it.
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This is the result of the first three lessons:
After the lesson, during the next few days at home i've read through lessons 1-3 and i've continued on the exercises cause we didn't have enough time to complete them. Using Avid in my own time seems to build up my confidence with the software and make me feel more comfortable using it.
This is the result of the first three lessons:
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