I started when i was really young my first (daw) was acid pro then i moved on to a program i would never forget Cakewalk sonar 7 this amazing daw was a kick off to what it was then but now this of a young n gun run n stun n in young adults we are thats the era of pro tools, logic, cube, presonar and... (read more)

The title is a statement I hear quite a lot when I suggest using AvidFX to do some effect. I cannot understand why working inside of AvidFX, through the AVX bridge is considered as outside of MC. After some pondering today, I decided to make this small Video to illustrate my confusion. http://www.screencast... (read more)

When I started with MC just over 5 years ago, I soon learned that I should let Avid's powerful Media Management take care of my media. In fact I was so careful in following the well known basic rules that I was scared of doing anything that might break them. I am now in the middle of preparing a... (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)

[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)

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)

I have just posted a Tutorial on my workflow for getting movie files from a Canon 550D DSLR camera into MC via the AMA Link File function. I also include my ideas on how to keep the file sizes to an absolute minimum. You can find a few other Tutorials on my Screencast page HERE Regards, Douglas (read more)

I have been reading so much recently about the MC Keyboard method vs the Liquid Drag & Drop method of editing. I could not contain myself any more and now have produced this short unofficial tutorial on what must be the ultimate keyboard shortcut to be found in MC5. I hope that you can understand... (read more)