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Avid for Liquid Users: Lesson 17 - Layout Flexibility

drbgaijin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:29:30 GMT

The seventeenth in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to or have migrated to Media Composer.

MC's layout is easily customisable.
The ability to resize and reposition monitors and other windows is one of the very useful features.

Regards,
Douglas

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Avid for Liquid Users: Lesson 15 - Rainbow Timeline - It can be done!

drbgaijin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:53:12 GMT

The fifteenth in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer.

This Tutorial is very short and was made to show Liquid migrants that they didn't have to keep the default MC colour scheme.
The actual process of changing the colours is shown in one of my later tutorials - "Changing the Colours of Timeline Tracks and Clips".

Regards,
Douglas

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Avid for Liquid Users: Lesson 10 - Remove an Effect

drbgaijin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:19:26 GMT

(Repost)
Over the next week or so I will be adding older tutorials to the Video upload page in order to have them available as streaming media in the Tips & Tutorials section. Almost all of these tutorials were made to help Liquid migrants get started in MC.

The tenth in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer.

I spent quite some time trying to find out how to remove an effect from a clip....... so easy when you know how.

Regards,
Douglas

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Expanding Library of Media Composer Tutorials

drbgaijin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:40:12 GMT

I am a relative newcomer to Media Composer (early 2008) and as I began to feel my way around I got the idea of documenting my adventures by creating short video tutorials,
Avid had already a large number of excellent, professionally produced tutorials online.
I learned very much from watching them. However I sometimes felt that newcomers like myself needed a much more basic approach to many of the things that were being taken for granted.

The first 20 or so tutorials were specifically made to help migrants from Avid/Pinnacle Liquid. However, many of those contain tips that can be useful to any newcomers.

The two main points that I have learned since arriving here are:

1. Media Composer has many, many ways of achieving a given result. My tutorials usually show only 1 of them. Be flexible and experiment for yourself. Nothing is set in stone.

2. If you are coming from a different NLE family, try and leave your old workflows behind you.
Don't try and figure out how to emulate them in MC.
The sooner you begin to accept the MC way, the sooner you will get up to speed and discover its flexibility.
It took me only 14 days before I completely stopped using Liquid.

SEE ALL THE TUTORIALS HERE on the MEDIA COMPOSER - PC FORUM

The tutorial page is, as the title above says, "Expanding".
Please drop in every now and then to see what has been added!

Hope you find something useful.

Regards,
Douglas

Avid for Liquid Users: Lesson 8 - Fast Menu: Hamburgers!

drbgaijin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:23:48 GMT

The eighth in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer.

This one is about the Fast Menu Hamburger

Regards
Douglas

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Avid for Liquid Users: Lesson 9 - Duplicate Clip Detection

drbgaijin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:19:00 GMT

The ninth in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer.

This one is about finding duplicated clips on long timelines with many clips.

Regards
Douglas

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Avid for Liquid Users: Lesson 7 - Long GOP problem /HDV to a QT-reference file

drbgaijin — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:05:18 GMT

The seventh in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer.

Many newcomers, myself included, come to MC with an HDV camera and capture through a firewire card.
Then the first time they try to export a QT-reference file, up pops the dreaded "Long GOP" error message.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Douglas

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Paint a Path with AvidFX

drbgaijin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:25:32 GMT

I once used BorisFX as a plug-in to Avid Liquid and later in MC 2.8 to paint paths.
I never could get consistent results.
After upgrading to MC 3.x and installing Avid FX I found that the Paint a Path effect was much

easier to apply and control.
AvidFX (Boris Red) still presents a steep learning curve, so I would like to try and lead newcomers

through the steps........ in a very basic and simple way.

Good luck!

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SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 5 - Mood Mapping Tutorial

Brian Dickman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:47:30 GMT

This brief tutorial shows you how to use the Mood Mapping feature of Sonicfire Pro to adjust individual instrument layers and make music adapt to the changes in your production. This feature has won over 10 industry awards...you'll understand why once you've seen it.

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Watch more Sonicfire Pro 5 Tutorials:

Sonicfire Pro 5 Express Track Edition (Free with SmartSound Music album purchase)

Express Track - The fastest tool for finding and customizing library music to your exact needs.
Finding Music with Express Track - Learn the basics of Express Tracks music searching and tracking.
Sensory Searching and Tempo Changing - Unique music searching and easy tempo/pitch adjustments.

Sonicfire Pro 5 Scoring Edition ($99.95 upgrade)

Scoring Edition Overview - A quick tour of the intuitive interface for turning library music into a custom score.
Mood Mapping - (You are here)
Timing Control - Move music beats to match your video events without losing rhythm or timing.
Spotting Tools - Mark the key events in your video and instantly sample tracks that best hit the mark.
Smart Recall - A revolutionary feature that allows resizing and instrument control in .WAV and .AIFF files.
Configuration Options - A review of important configuration options for Sonicfire Pro 5 users.

About SmartSound and Sonicfire Pro 5

SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 5 is the largest and most powerful solution for empowering video editors to create professional-quality soundtracks. Instead of building music from scratch, Sonicfire Pro gives editors the ability to fully customize thousands of music tracks, turning library music into a custom music score. With the Strata Series multi-layer music, editors can customize the length, musical arrangement and instrument mix to make each track uniquely suited to every production.

Sonicfire Pro 5 Scoring Edition is included FREE with Avid Media Composer products. Add more music at www.smartsound.com/music

If you have received Sonicfire Pro 4 with your past Avid purchase, you can upgrade to Sonicfire Pro 5 for free. Download Sonicfire Pro 5 Upgrade.

Saving and Sharing a newly created Effect

drbgaijin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:39:23 GMT

This is a follow-on from the "Simple Vignette created by the Paint Effect" Tutorial.

Showing how to save your new effect and re-use it in your project, or use it an any other project you are working with.

Regards,
Douglas

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