MC 101/110 - Comprehensive Study of Editing and Effects with Media Composer 6

This comprehensive 5-day course is the first step in achieving confidence, creativity, and efficiency with Avid Media Composer 6, the non-linear film/video editing application used in most movie and television productions. This course combines MC 101 and MC 110 to provide the foundation for the Media Composer User Certification Exam.

This course leads you through the interface and basic editing techniques before moving on to trimming, fine-tuning the edit, adjusting audio, handling multicamera editing, adding transitions, adding titles, and outputting your finished project. The training is hands-on and features project-based lessons in which you work on real-world projects ranging from extreme sports and dazzling documentary footage to an episode of the television show Hell's Kitchen.

Once you know the basics of the editing tools in Media Composer, you are ready to learn the fundamentals of creating effects within Avid 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.

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: Exploring the Interface and Preparing to Edit

Starting the System, Opening a Project, Exploring the Workspace, Understanding the Project Window, Working with Bins and Folders in the Project Window, Exploring the Editing Interface, Working with the Surface Monitor, Organizing Clips and Bins, Saving Your Work

Lesson 2: Assembling a Basic Sequence

Opening the Project, Understanding the Record Monitor, Creating a New Sequence, Combining Bin Tabs, Marking Edit Points, Finding and Audio Edit Cue, Performing Basic Editing, Splicing Clips into the Timeline, Adding Tracks to a Sequence, Overwriting Clips into the Timeline, Making Edits in the Timeline, Editing Audio and Video, Extracting and Lfiting Segments from the Timeline

Lesson 3: Ingesting File-Based Media

Opening the Project, Understanding Improting and AMA Linking, Importing Still Images, Creating a New Project, Importing Audio Files, Opening a Bin from Another Project, Understanding AMA, Linking to a QuickTime Volume, Understanding Consolidate Versus Transcode, Adding Comments to Master Clips in Script View

Lesson 4: Manual Timeline Editing

Opening the Project, Creating Subclips, Preparing the Project for Editing, Drag-and-Drop Editing in the Timeline, Finding Clips in the Bins Pane, Draggin Clips in the Bins Pane, Dragging Clips to Splice-In or Overwrite the Timeline, Sorting and Sifting Clips, Building a Storyboard, Arranging a Storyboard, Editing a Storyboard into Sequence, Trimming Segments with Top and Tail, Trimming Segments with Extend

Lesson 5: Refining the Edit

Opening and Preparing the Project, Understanding Your Trimming Options, Overwrite Trimming with the Smart Tools. Using the Trim Keyboard Shortcuts, Preparing the Project, Using Ripple Trim to Fix Dialogue, Tirmming On-the-Fly, Trimming in the Composer Window, Preparing the Project, Using Additional Video to Enhance a Sequence, Slipping or Sliding Segments

Lesson 6: Refining and Mixing Audio

Tailoring the Interface for Audio Editing, Working with Markers, Adding and Patching Tracks, Monitoring, Soloing and Muting a Track, Recording a Voiceover, Using the Audiot Tool, Setting Levels and Pan in the Audio Mixer, Changing Levels Within a Segment, Audio Crossfades

Lesson 7: Customizing Media Composer

Creating a New User Profile, Viewing and Changing User Settings, Changing the Font Size, Working with the Command Palette, Customizing a Workspace

Lesson 8: Introduction to Multicamera Editing

Creating Group Clips, Editing with Multicamera Displays, Exploring Multicamera Editing Techniques, Revising a Multicamera Edit

Lesson 9: Creating Quick Titles and Basic Transitions

Making a New title, Editing a Title Over Video, Working with Shapes and Gradients, Applying a Fade Effect to Titles, Adding Quick Transitions

Lesson 10: Preparing for Output and Exporting a File

Creating a Sequence Report, Adding Bars, Tone and Filler, Reviewing Work in Full-Screen Mode, Exporting a Sequence for Web Sharing, Using Send To Templates for DVD Authoring, Creating Your Own Send To Templates, Preparing a Sequence, Exporting the Program Portion of the Sequence

Lesson 11: Introduction to Audio Effects

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

Lesson 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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 16: 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 17: 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 18: Keying and Mattes

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

Lesson 19: 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