MC 201 - Media Composer 6 Professional Picture and Sound Editing

Experienced Avid Media Composer or Symphony editors gain greater productivity by mastering the system's sophisticated editing features and tools. Students learn things like workspace management and project organization, along with advanced toolsets including MultiCamera, ScriptSync, and Marquee. In addition the course gives students a primer on audio mix theory and covers some fundamental Media Composer audio sweetening tools and techniques. Sessions include instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice.

Producers, Editors, Assistant editors, Multimedia producers

• Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X
• Completion of MC 101/110 or equivalent experience
• A background in editing, production, or post-production is strongly recommended 

Lesson 1: How Workflow Makes, Manages, and Moves Media

Goals of Great Workflows, Understanding Offline and Online Procedures, Understanding Media Clips, Media Drives Contain Media Files, Understanding Media Files, Codecs are Secret Decoder Rings, Clips Are Linked to Media Files, Deep Dive into Media Files and Clips

Lesson 2: Professional Acquisition

Tape: It's Alive, Workflows for Capturing, Preparing to Ingest from Tape, Extra Audio Setup, Extra Features of the Capture Tool, Using the Console While Capturing, File-Based Acquisition Using Avid Media Access, Using the AMA Workflow, Caveats of AMA

Lesson 3: Advanced Picture Editing

Working with Multiple Tracks, Cleaning Tracks, Enhancing Functions with Modifier Keys, Three-Point Editing Power User Tricks, Integrating Mixed Media, Modifying Motion Adapters, Reformatting Media

Lesson 4: Play Together

The Editor's Dialogue, Play Together

Lesson 5: Multicamera Editing

Preparing the Production Team, Avid's Multicamera Editing Workflows, Setting Up Multicamera Editing, Editing Audio, Multicamera Performance, Editing a Multicamera Sequence, Committing Multicamera Edits

Lesson 6: Script Integration and ScriptSync

What Is a Lined Script, Using Script Integration, Working with Slates, Adding Script Marks, Additional ScriptSync Options, Using Avid ScriptSync, Editing with the Script Window, Enriching Scripts

Lesson 7: Advanced Dialogue Editing

How Trimming Works, Trim Tool: Reloaded, Creating a Radio Edit, Using Dynamic Trimming, Using Split Edits, Advanced Trim Techniques

Lesson 8: Working with Multichannel Audio

Understanding Tracks, Channels and Voices, Multichannel Enhancements in Media Composer, Using the Track Control Panel, Working with Surround Sound, Using the Audio Mixer for Multichannel Mixing

Lesson 9: Fundamentals of Audio Mixing

Sound Mixing is Important, Goals of Sound Mixing, What is Dynamic Range, Creating a Mix, Understanding the Mixing Workflow, Understanding Avid Pro Tools Interoperability

Lesson 10: Adjusting Audio EQ

Understanding Audio Equalization(EQ), Using Average Frequencies for Common Sounds, Exploring Audio EQ Tools and Plug-Ins, Using the AudioSuite EQ III Plug-In, Attacking an Unwanted Noise, Audio EQ Examples, Using EQ Tool's Preset Filters

Lesson 11: Real-Time AudioSuite (RTAS)

Introduction to AudioSuite Plug-Ins, Inserting RTAS Effects, Editing an RTAS Plug-In, Understanding RTAS Mixdown Workflows, Limiting and Compressing Peak Values

Lesson 12: Wrapping Up a Project

Preparing for Online Editing, Creating an Online Project, Archiving Your Project

Lesson 13: Mastering the Media

Understanding the Media Tool, Solving the Problem of Corrupt Media Files, Clearing Rendering Effects, Consolidate Means Copy, Transcode Means Convert, Relinking Media Files, Adding and Stripping Out Tracks