My original thread has outgrown itself. Now I am starting a second Tutorial thread which will include the next 100 tutorials.
I am still working on some way of indexing the tutorials so that it will be easier to find different topics.
By the way, the First 100 Basic MC Tutorials can be found HERE

Link 101  Playing Unrendered Effects
Link 102  Introducing Particle Illusion
Link 103  AvidFX and the Black Background Puzzle
Link 104  Track Height - All the same height
Link 105  Changing the Timeline Background Colour
Link 106  Changing a Bin's Font and Font size
Link 107  The View Menu
Link 108  Track Height - all the same - REVISITED
Link 109  From MC to AvidDVD - A look at the Settings
Link 110  Multi Camera Mode - 1. Just a Glance
Link 111  Before Basics -  1. Track Selectors
Link 112  Before Basics -  2. Splice-in, Overwrite, Drag & Drop
Link 113  Before Basics -  3. Lift & Extract from IN to OUT points
Link 114  Keyboard Commands vs. Drag & Drop
Link 115  AvidDVD - Adding Subtitles - 1. Getting started
Link 116  AvidDVD - Adding Subtitles - 2. Japanese and Importing
Link 117  AvidDVD - Adding Subtitles - 3. Writing your own for import        
Link 118  NTSC DVD to PAL DVD to NTSC DVD                                         
Link 119  SD and HD on the same Timeline - 1                                       
Link 120  SD and HD on the same Timeline - 2. Avid's Open Timeline       
Link 121  SD and HD on the same Timeline - 3. The Digital Cut Tool         
Link 122  4 Simple Steps from HD to an SD DVD
Link 123  Using Keyframes in Effects - 2: Starting from Scratch          
Link 124  Using Keyframes in Effects - 3: Adding Keyframes               
Link 125  Using Keyframes in Effects - 4: Moving Keyframes             
Link 126  Audio Wave-form Height                                                       
Link 127  Globally setting IN/OUT Points on Clips in a Bin                       
Link 128  Exporting a QT Movie from Camtasia Studio for import into MC 
Link 129  Some Lasso Techniques                                                       
Link 130  Using Keyframes in Effects - 5: Aligning Keyframes                   
Link 131  Using Keyframes in Effects - 6: Slipping Keyframes                  
Link 132  Using Keyframes in Effects - 7: Adding Keyframes - Revisited    
Link 133  Using Keyframes in Effects - 8: Deleting Keyframes
Link 134  New to Transitions? You need Handles!                      
Link 135  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 1: My First Encounters                                       
Link 136  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 2: First Encounters continue..                     
Link 137  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 3: Holding a Title onscreen                        
Link 138  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 4: Add another Text-Page and some Fades 
Link 139  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 5: Making a Title of a specific Length          
Link 140  MM - 3 small Tips when using a Bin's Text View Mode                     
Link 141  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 6: Making and using a Title Template           
Link 142  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 6A: Correcting a vital mistake made in Part 6!
Link 143  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 7: A simple Text Roll                                   
Link 144  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 8: Animating Type-on Text                          
Link 145  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 9: Type-on Text Revisited                           
Link 146  AvidFX - Title Tool   Part 10: The Vector Trace Tool  
Link 147  Holding a Dissolve at 50% for a set Time                    
Link 148  Deleting a Clip - Revisited                                         
Link 149  Evapourating Clips!                                                   
Link 150  Controlling Clip Snapping                                           
Link 151  That Puzzling Extra Frame!                                         
Link 152  Deleting a Clip - Revisited, yet again!                        
Link 153  24 Keyboard Shortcuts to jog your Memory                 
Link 154  Shift 'n Map                                                            
Link 155  Go to Next/Previous Edit without entering the Trim Mode 
Link 156  Keyboard Mapping Suggestions - Focus                         
Link 157  Zooming In/Out and dragging the Monitor Picture            Uploaded November 11th 
Link 158  Confused by Track Selectors?                                        Uploaded November 17th
Link 159  Confused by Track Selectors?  Part 2                              Uploaded November 18th  

Link 160  Coming soon!

Please inform me if you find any broken links.

Regards,
Douglas

Link 119, was my first step into the world of SD and HD on Avid's Open Timeline.

It was not exactly what many of you have been asking foir.

But today I think I finally got a workflow together to output the mixed timeline as SD to a digital clip which, in my opinion, gave equally good quality to the original HD and SD material.

I will try the whole workflow again tomorrow - to double check things.
If all is well, I'll try and get it out as a Tutorial before the weekend.

Regards,

Douglas

Over a week and no new Tutorial!

Am I slipping?  NO, I don't think so.
After a week with other assignments I am now in the process of getting to grips with 2 or maybe 3 tutorials on KeyFrames in Effects.
Those little red/pink triangles are sometimes hard to keep under control.............

Regards,
Douglas

Sounds good, I need a little info on keyframing. Anyone got some tut on color correction?

dew:

Anyone got some tut on color correction?

I can give you a quick "rule of thumb" for color correction - figure out what your problem color is and where on the luminance scale it resides (blacks, midrange, whites) and use the appropriate vector circle to go in the 180 degree opposite direction of the problem color.

dew:

Sounds good, I need a little info on keyframing. Anyone got some tut on color correction?

Anything here to help you get started?

http://www.avid.co.uk/uk/video/xpress/automaticColourCorrection.shtml

It is for Xpress, but I think it may be similar in MC

Regards,
Douglas

I enjoyed your keyframing tutes, Douglas. I wonder if you could provide a tutorial describing how to make use of the keyframing modes (apply to active parameter, apply to all, apply to open group, apply to active group). Believe it or not, I find a couple of these are confusing to use (perhaps I should read the manual ).

Thanks for the great work!

Stee

BarkinMadd:

I enjoyed your keyframing tutes, Douglas. I wonder if you could provide a tutorial describing how to make use of the keyframing modes (apply to active parameter, apply to all, apply to open group, apply to active group).

Thank you, Steve.

I am planning to do another 2 or 3 Tutorials on Keyframes.
I'll see what I can do about your request.

Regards,
Douglas

PS. Do you prefer to pay by PayPal or Credit Card?

Your a funny man....

I'm in the process of playing with keyframing - Until now I've used them in a pretty simplistic way (which has worked just fine for me) - I see the need to use more sophisticated techniques in the coming weeks.

Cheers

(Do you take Diners Club?)

This post was highlighted in the avid email newsletter. It begs the question, where are the first 100? Is there a link that we can save which would continue to show the full list, in its entirety?

Thanks
Bill

barebodkin:

This post was highlighted in the avid email newsletter. It begs the question, where are the first 100? Is there a link that we can save which would continue to show the full list, in its entirety?

Thanks
Bill

A good point, Bill

Actually I believe the first 100 were featured in an earlier "Avid in Focus", although at that time there were only 50. So the title may have been "50+ Tutorials"

However I have taken your advice and added a link to "the first 100" in the opening post in this thread.

Having all Tutorials in 1 place was proving to be too much of a strain on the system, so I decided to break it into 2.

Regards,
Douglas

BarkinMadd:

I enjoyed your keyframing tutes, Douglas. I wonder if you could provide a tutorial describing how to make use of the keyframing modes (apply to active parameter, apply to all, apply to open group, apply to active group). Believe it or not, I find a couple of these are confusing to use (perhaps I should read the manual ).

Steve, believe it or not I also find them confusing!

But the good news is that I have been reading up on it today, and even started putting together another 3 or 4 Tutorials on them.

Possibly 1 or 2 of those tutorials will be online within the next 24 hours, and the remainder by the weekend.

Regards,
Douglas

Douglas,

I love your tutorials, it is so helpfull.  Any chance we could talk you into doing one on how to import footage from a dvd to your system? I still havnet been able to get my footage off the dvd_r to my system to cut my reel.  ugh.

any help you could give would be awesome.  thanks for all that you do!

The rainy season has come to Japan.
It is a lot cooler now (only around 25-28 C) so my brain is beginning to work again and I finished 4 new Tutorials today

Hope there is something for you in them!

Regards,
Douglas

Very nice job on the Lasso- my personal favorite. 

http://community.avid.com/forums/p/47041/264866.aspx#264866

I'd like to use paypal to chip in for an umbrella or brainfood.