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Using the Attic Folder

TrainerDave — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:16:13 GMT

An attic is usually where you find dust, rats, spiderwebs and (if you live in the right kind of neighbourhood) portals to other dimensions. However, the Avid Attic is not nearly as weird or scary as that! Get to know it, use it, love it...

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Bullet List with AvidFX

drbgaijin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:18:43 GMT

Although Avid Title Tool and Avid Marquee are capable of handling most types of Text effects, it can be nice to find a quick way of using a Title template to do some more advanced effect.

AvidFX has a very powerful Title tool under the bonnet.

Here is a look at a quick way of creating a Bullet List.

Good luck!
Douglas

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Global Audio Adjustment

drbgaijin — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:57:50 GMT

Not the only way to do it.
But here is one way that I have found that makes sense to me.
Also included is a little tip on resetting the Volume Slider to zero.

Regards,
Douglas

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Add your own Transitions to the "Quick Transition" Menu

drbgaijin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:40:24 GMT

I'd like to thank Pixel Monkey for starting a very interesting thread in Avid's Tips & Tutorials area.
His first post gave me the inspiration for this Tutorial.
The url to his thread is:

http://community.avid.com/forums/t/62367.aspx

The "Quick Transition" Menu has a choice of: Disslove, Film Dissolve, Film Fade, Fade to Colour, Fade from Colour and Dip to Colour transitions.
The Tutorial explains how you can add your own creations to the drop down menu in the "Quick Transform" dialogue box.
The basic concept opens up numerous possibilities that could help you speed things up a bit when you are using your "favourite" transition creations.

Good luck!
Douglas

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From MC to WWW - 2. Encoding

drbgaijin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:57:09 GMT

Getting from the MC timeline onto the Web causes lots of confusion.
Mainly because of the many variations in video formats and codecs.
There is no way that a set of 3 tutorials could cover all possibilities.

Taking the simple approach I will show you my workflow and then leave it up to you to discover if and how you can use any of my ideas in developing your own workflow.

The second tutorial describes one way of encoding your material to a flash (flv) file and wrapping it in a "skin".

I use a programme from On2 Technologies by the name of FlixPro. (I believe that a simpler version of the programme - Flix - can achieve the same results as FlixPro in my tutorial).
Using FlixPro cuts out the need to use a 3rd party encoder such as Procoder or Sorenson Squeeze.

Good luck!

Douglas

PS. The final result can be viewed on internet at:

http://www.gaijin-eyes.com/avidwww/avidwww.htm

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From MC to WWW - 1. Exporting the timeline

drbgaijin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:53:46 GMT

Taking the simple approach I will show you my workflow and then leave it up to you to discover if and how you can use any of my ideas in developing your own workflow.

The first tutorial describes one way of exporting your material from MC.

Good luck!

Douglas

PS. The final result can be viewed on internet at:

http://www.gaijin-eyes.com/avidwww/avidwww.htm

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Next: From MC to WWW - 2. Encoding

Avid Pan & Zoom

drbgaijin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:38:34 GMT

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This Tutorial is longer than I usually produce. This is due to the fact that I want to show a few of the pitfalls that I met when trying to learn this technique.

The actual Pan & Zoom part is covered by a very informative Avid Xpress Pro product quick tour video. It can be found at: http://community.avid.com/media/p/367296.aspx

Good luck!
Douglas

Nudge Nudge!

drbgaijin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:18:19 GMT

The default keyboard has a set of very useful "nudge" commands mapped to four of the keys.
Newcomers might miss these in their initial meeting with MC.

Maybe you can find some use for them!

Regards,
Douglas

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Pseudo Timelapse

drbgaijin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:22:31 GMT

The long GOP structure of HDV make life difficult if you want to create a timelapse video.
The workaround I use is done by taking a video of the complete event then use the Motion Effect Editor to create the effect by timewarping.

Regards,
Douglas

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The Replace Edit Button

drbgaijin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:38:02 GMT

It's not in your default layout.
If you've never heard of it you probably will never look for it, let alone find it.
So here it is.........

Regards
Douglas

PS. This tutorial has been updated after Siencs kindly pointed out an important point I had missed in the original Tutorial. Thank you Siencs.

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