MC 110 - Media Composer 6 Effects Essentials

This course is for video editors who understand the basics of the editing tools in Media Composer and are ready to move ahead and learn the fundamentals of creating effects within Avid Media Composer 6, the non-linear film/video editing application used in most movie and television productions. This course provides a solid foundation in Media Composer audio and video effects capabilities and, in conjunction with MC101 Editing Essentials course, will prepare you for Avid’s User Level certification in Media Composer 6. You will be taken through the basic effects-building interface; then, using a real-world, hands-on approach, you’ll learn fundamental audio adjustments and effects, multilayered video compositing, tracking, stabilization, various retiming methods, and basic color-grading techniques. This course is a crucial step in mastering Avid Media Composer, the standard editing system used by professionals in the film and television industries. The Media Composer 101/110 combined class saves you over 20% versus booking the classes separately.

Producers, Editors, Assistant editors, Multimedia producers

• Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X
• A background in editing, production, or post-production is strongly recommended 

Lesson 1: Introduction to Audio Effects

Audio EQ Tool, Understanding AudioSuite Plug-ins, Using AudioSuite Plug-ins, Applying AudioSuite Plug-ins to Master Clips

Lesson 2: Introduction to Visual Effects

Adding Quick Transitions, Adding a Transition to Multiple Cuts, Removing Transitions, Modifying, Transitions in the Timeline, Replacing Transitions, Modifying Effects in Effect Mode, Saving Effect Templates, Adding Segment Effects, Adding an Effect to Multiple Segments, Removing Segment Effects

Lesson 3: Corrective Effects

Resizing a Shot in the Effect Preview Monitor, Smoothing Shaky Camera Movement, Locking Down Shaky, Camera Movement, Tracking and Blurring Unwanted Objects, Using Standard Keyframes, Hiding Jump Cuts with Fluid Morph

Lesson 4: Retiming

Types of Motion Effects, Creating Freeze Frames, Setting the Freeze Frame Render Type, Creating the Freeze Frame, Making the Edit, Creating Motion Effects, Making the Edit, Creating Motion Effects Using Fit to Fill, Timewarp Effects, Timewarp Preset Effects, Applying a Reverse Motion Timewarp Preset, Creating a Timewarp Freeze Frame

Lesson 5: Color Treating and Correcting

Modifying the Look of a Shot, Creating Color Treatments, Creating a Black and White Image, Creating Sepia Tone Treatment, Creating a “Night Vision” Treatment, Introduction to Color Correction, Color Correction Mode, About Automatic Color Correction, Automatically Adjusting Contrast and Balance, User-Assisted White Balance Corrections

Lesson 6: Nesting Multiple Effects

Nesting Effects, Autonesting, Seeing Multiple Effects in the Effect Editor, Displaying a Nest in the Timeline, Changing the Order of Nested Effects

Lesson 7: Multilayer Effects

Creating Multilayer Effects, Creating a Picture-in-Picture Effect, Creating a “Card Swap” Multilayer Transition, Advanced Keyframing Using Graphs, Keyframe Interpolation Options, Layers and Nests, Nesting Effects Within Titles, Applying Effects to Tracks, Using the Safe Color Limiter, Using the Pan and Scan Effect

Lesson 8: Keying and Mattes

Different Keying Types, Applying SpectraMatte, Creating a Garbage Mask, Refining the Matte Channel

Lesson 9: 3D Title Animation with Marquee

Creating Text in Marquee, Formatting and Layering Text, Modifying Colors, Materials, and Surfaces, Rotating and Extruding Text, Saving Text Styles, Animating Objects in a Scene, Saving Titles to a Bin, Generating AutoTitles