New editing systems, Digidesign, Sorenson, Smartsound and more join Community Tips and Tutorials

Adam Kranitz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:05:00 GMT

Starting today--in Avid Community Tips and Tutorials--are brand new categories for classifying your uploads.

The goal of this update was not only to recognize our many customers who are already creating great content with the latest generation of Avid editing systems, but also to recognize the role of the multi-tasking professional editor. Creating DVDs, mixing audio, motion design and multimedia compression for many are no longer highly specialized tasks to be handed off. To that end, we have added categories for tips and tutorials that involve our editing suite components and categories for professional audio post production. Notable additions include:

Products:

- Avid Media Composer Software, Mojo DX and Nitris DX

- Avid DS (replacing DS Nitris)

- Digidesign Pro Tools and Pro Tools|HD

Editing Suite Components:

- Boris Continuum AVX

- Sorenson Squeeze

- Avid FX

- SmartSound Sonicfire Pro

A few classic camera formats were added to the mix (DV, HDV, DVCPRO) along with the very latest: RED.

Finally, to round out the "Features" column, DVD Authoring, File-based workflow, and MetaFuze have all been added.

Keep those tips and tutorials coming, and be sure to check off all the Products, Formats, and Features that apply.

Bonus Tip: Each category comes with its own RSS feed. Use your favorite feed reader to stay on top of the latest upload to that category. Simply click the RSS link next to the tag name (highlighted below in red).

How to add a video to your Community Tips and Tutorials

Adam Kranitz — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT

Updated: 03/17/09

Have a screencast you'd like to share with the Community? Here's a quick guide to creating a Community Tip or Tutorial that includes a video clip.

1. Start in the Community Tips and Tutorials section, click the Contribute Your Tips & Tutorials graphic.

2. Enter any text you'd like to include in the Title and Body.

3. In the Body, place your cursor where you want the video to appear. Then in the toolbar, click the Insert Media button (to the left of the happy face).

4. Click the Browse button.

5. Click the Videos tab.

6. Select the name of the category, then the video you've already uploaded.

7. Enter a width of 640 and height of 500 (or 380 for 16x9) under the Option tab. The extra 20 pixels is an adjustment for the height of the playback controller.

8. Click the OK button (lower right-hand corner, you may need to scroll down a bit)

9. You'll see a bracketed line of code in the Body. This indicates where your video will be displayed.

10. Finally, click the Submit button.

All done!

Also see:

- How to encode your media for Avid Community Videos

- How to upload your videos to Avid Community

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New editing systems, Digidesign, Sorenson, Smartsound and more join Community Tips and Tutorials

How to add a video to your Community Tips and Tutorials