Avid Media Composer - PC

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

Joker1 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:10:17 GMT

That's really great!

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

pgouvea — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:43:52 GMT

Douglas, your work is singular... a unique reference in Avid MC! Don´t worry! System and human erros happens every day.

Your tutorials are great!

regards

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:11:50 GMT

Monday 11th May - It looks like I have broken something on this forum thread by posting such a long initial post!

If you scroll down the first post until you come to my, "Regards, Douglas" and then continue......... you will find a whole heap of "Regards, Douglas" [:'(]

When I tried to remove them all I get a "Stack overflow" error!!!!!!!

I hope that Adam and his team will be able to fix this when they wake up later in the USA.

In the meantime, I am sorry I cannot post the 3rd and final Tutorial on AvidDVD subtitles.

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:42:52 GMT

3 new Tutorial added this morning.
Probably a 4th will be added later today.

I noticed a few very basic questions being asked recently on the Forums, so I thought that a few "Before Basics" Tutorials might be useful.

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:03:06 GMT

I'd just like to say, "Sorry" that I haven't posted any new Tutorials for over 1 week.

This is not a sign of my inspiration running out.
It is just that I have had a few other jobs to do and have not had a chance to spend time on the Tutorials.
I hope to be adding tutorials again, by the end of this coming week.

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:38:04 GMT

Thank you everyone for the many visits to my Tutorials thread.
I noticed that a short time ago that the number of views has passed 30,000!

I hope that I have been able to help most of you with some of the many aspects of MC.

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:53:27 GMT

I agree with you 100%.

The "canny" scot in me thought it would be the safest way - adding keyframes for "all parameters".

However with the latest information, that we both seem to have read, it would be more efficient to take time to be more selective about which parameters need to be keyframed and which don't.

Thanks for pointing this out for others to read!

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

BobbyMurcerFan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:18:36 GMT

Douglas,

I remembered from a tutorial that to be safe you sometimes add keyframes to all parameters.

I recently learned that keyframes, even if they have no values set take up memory and system resources. While I would think this would be a minuscule amount, apparently its enough that MC 3.5 no longer defaults to placing blank keyframes at the beginning and ending of an effect.

In light of that info, it seems selecting the parameter and choosing Add to Active Parameter may be a good way to go when adding keyframes.

Thank MUCH for sharing all your hard work w/ us.

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:38:24 GMT

I have added a new tutorial today, Sunday 12th April.

It may help you find your way in the "Authoring Jungle" as far as getting the best quality DVD and/or Blu-Ray output from HDV 1080i source material goes.

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

Sasquatch — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:25:16 GMT

Douglas thank you for taking the time to make all these tutorials you seem to be a very sweet man, a little lacking in dynamic range but not everyone is perfect.

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:35:39 GMT

Yesterday, April 1st, was not a good day for posting Tutorials

But now, we're back.
Tutorial 102 is now uploaded.
A little different from my others, but I hope it will be of interest and of use to many of you.

Tutorial 103 is on the go - it will look at some very basic facts about AvidFX.

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

kinfolk — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:13:04 GMT

That's great, Douglas ! Thank you !

if you are not worki'n in Avid company yet - I'm really don't know what about they thinkin' of...

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

Damiaanae — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:40:50 GMT

Really great.

Most of the tutorails are very 'overwhelming' . Yours are very obvious! Thanks.

Damiaan

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

drbgaijin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:30:57 GMT

Today I added the 100th link in this series of Tutorials.

I am now aiming at 200

There are a few very important topics that I have not really touched yet.
Things like Media Management, Consolidating, Colour Correction etc.

They will appear eventually.
But for now I will be continuing to jump around all over the place.

It seems that, as I intended, those who are finding things of use in the tutorials are glad of the basic and simplistic view I try to give.
I intend the tutorials to give viewers a way of getting involved in the different topics and then from there they can study the many polished tutorials by the real experts that go into depth and detail.

My other intention is that viewers can add their own suggestions and tips in the threads.

I make mistakes, but I have nothing against constructive criticism and advice.
Please don't hold back if you feel the need to correct me .

Back to the drawing board!

Regards,
Douglas

Re: 50+ Tutorials on Basic MC tips

jwrl — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:04:59 GMT

Douglas, slow down! You're making the rest of us look bad!