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New to Transitions - You need Handles!

drbgaijin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:45:29 GMT

Those of you who have been around MC for a while will already be experts on Handles!
I made this Tutorial for 3 reasons.
1. To help migrants from other NLE's that don't use the same concept as MC uses when it comes to transitions.
2. To help newcomers to the world of NLE transitions in general, and
3. To give you all a Tutorial that you can refer to when someone asks about basic transition problems on the Forums.

Regards,
Douglas

PS. No car fenders, bumpers or pieces of wood were damaged in making this Tutorial!

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New to Transitions - You need Handles!

drbgaijin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:42:30 GMT

Regards,
Douglas

PS. No car fenders, bumpers or pieces of wood were damaged in making this Tutorial!

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

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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about effect

papu — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:08:30 GMT

sir .

when we are edit and we came to effect side is it posible we can put effect at a time same effect to 10 to 15 edit points at one time. is yes please tell me .

Reusing Custom Effects in Avid Media Composer

Lonzell Watson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:11:41 GMT

As an editor, the ability to work quickly and efficiently is golden. The ability to store and reuse the custom effects that you have built can save you a lot of time and effort, when it’s close to deadline. If you know that you’re going to use an effect more than once in a project, like a custom transition, you should store that effect. Follow these steps to store a custom transition effect.

1. Create the effect that you need. In this example, I have used the Fade to Color effect to create a customized white flash transition or flicker.

2. Create a new Bin. You’ll need a place to store your effects, so go to File > New Bin, or press the Command Key and N on the keyboard to create a new bin. Name the new bin Effects.

3. Store the effect. The little Effect Icon, in the upper right corner of the Effect Editor, represents the new effect that you have just created. Drag the Effect Icon to the new Effects Bin.

There you have it. Now you don’t have to recreate the effect each time you want to use it in the show. Simply drag the icon from the Effects bin and place it into the sequence. Saving and reusing custom effects allows you to maintain consistency, but also saves you precious time.

Special Transition

styks1987 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:05:13 GMT

This isn;t really an Avid specific question but I know Avid editors are the best so I will ask this question here.

Have a clip that I want to transition to another clip. Both clips have similar pans in the same direction. I want to cut on a pillar that comes into the foregroun and reveal the other clip. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks

Mike