[quote user="BobbyMurcerFan"] Thank you Douglas!! I will work on the AvidFX solution and report back. :) [/quote] In the meantime I have just finished editing a tutorial on my approach to creating the effect you are looking for. It is quite straightforward in AvidFX. If you are interested in... (read more)

[quote user="Mike Shaw"]Douglas has just Skyped me and shown me how that works. Could be very useful when I get the windows all messed up - as I do when exploring ... [/quote] That should be quite soon, Mike Actually, when I was chatting with Mike, I soon realised that he was slowing down and... (read more)

I have never really had to get to grips with the concept of nesting in MC. I have tried it, but I find that AvidFX is easier for me to understand and to control. This little Tutorial shows. in a very simple way, how nesting inside of AvidFX works. HERE IS THE VIDEO TUTORIAL Regards, Douglas (read more)

A few days ago I was out shooting a Taiko (Japanese drum) Competition. I have used the footage in an experiment with Media Composer in conjunction with a recently, by me, discovered HighDefinition slide show creation application called ProShow Producer. I am, as yet, extremely new to ProShow but I am... (read more)

The 7th annual SoCal Film Festival in Huntington Beach celebrates the art and culture of film Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2011. Check the website for details. Filmmakers and Screenwriters, we will be accepting submissions for 2012 beginning in December. Visit us at: www.socalfilmfest.com (read more)

[quote user="adamsonn"](I am playing with the FEC ball action at the moment on a text layer with an underlying video track - making the balls start dispersed and then coming in to form the text - this crashes the system without fail[/quote] Well, Neil That gave me something to test out. The... (read more)

[quote user="AndrewAction"]As I said before Douglas's Avid FX Tutorials on the site here are a pretty good for starters.[/quote] Thanks for the mentions Andrew. (Sorry I am a bit low on cash just now......) Terry, If you are not in a big hurry, and you contact me, I'll give you some... (read more)

[quote user="Rob"] Hi All, I am new to both the forum and in the use of Media Composer [/quote] Hello Rob, Welcome to the MC Forums. For a more graphic explanation of what has just been suggested, here is a short Video tutorial. Regards, Douglas (read more)

[quote user="editz"] Isn't it just going to the Particle Generator tab and selecting from the Particle Shape dropdown? [/quote] I will not be at my editing computer for another hour or so. But I am sure that Editz has the answer. There are a whole bunch of parameters that you can adjust... (read more)

Thanks for posting that information Randall. I was beginning to think that I needed new glasses. If anyone is likely to be staying with DVD as their delivery media, then I agree that DVDLabPro is a good alternative. However any application that could replace AvidDVD would have to support Blu-Ray as well... (read more)