Well, the blanking during my renders that were shown on the first version of this "Fit to Fill in MC5" raised a question on the MC forums. I decided to try and find the problem. It was my monitor set-up that was causing the problem. A new wide screen monitor and a mis-matched 2nd monitor with...

Most Newcomers fall into the trap of dragging yet another effect onto a clip which has already an effect applied. The results are met by questions on the Forums like, "Isn't it possible to add multiple effects to a clip?" Here is the answer - Yes, it is. And here is a very simple look at...

There are so many effects and variations on effects that it is very easy to overlook one that might just be what you are looking for. From time to time I will add a short tutorial on some effect that I may have stumbled across in the Effect Palette. This one is known as "Streaky Rays". Regards...

Making text appear to be written onto the screen can be easily done with the Paint Effect. However the text that you write with a mouse or even a graphic tablet can leave a lot to be desired. This tutorial shows one method of using a standard Handwriting Font as your base for the effect. Good Luck.....

(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...

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...