Avid Xpress Pro - Making the Move to Media Composer - Media Composer Editing

Full Course Available as a CD-ROM: http://www.avid.com/mc100

There are a number of enhancements youll notice when you start editing with Media Composer. You can edit your clips directly from bins in your project, and youll find that its easier to maintain sync while moving segments around in the Timeline. Other enhancements include some additional editing functions and the new ScriptSync feature.

In Media Composer, you can edit clips directly from a bin into your sequence in the Timeline.

You activate bin editing from the Bin Settings dialog box. When enabled, bin editing lets you bypass the process of loading clips into the monitor, setting marks, and clicking the Splice-in or Overwrite button.

Instead, you can either mark your In and Out points in the Timeline, or just move the position indicator where you want a clip to appear.

Select a clip in a bin, and either drop it in the Timeline or use keyboard shortcut keys B for overwrite, V for splice-in to edit it into your sequence.

Maintaining sync between video and audio segments can present problems as you edit. Media Composer solves some of these problems by using the Segment Drag Sync Locks feature.

When you edit in Segment mode, you usually use either the Lift/Overwrite or Extract/Splice-in function. With Lift/Overwrite, filler is added to your sequence to maintain sync as you edit. However, when you move segments in the Timeline using Extract/Splice-in, the sync is broken.

To maintain sync when you use Extract/Splice-in, Media Composer uses the Segment Drag Sync Locks option, which you enable in the Edit tab of the Timeline Settings dialog box. When you use Extract/Splice-in to move either an audio or video segment, this option adds filler:

• Where the segment was moved from in your sequence

• And on all other sync-locked tracks that correspond to the new location of the segment you just moved

There are some new editing commands available to you in Media Composer. Two useful ones, for example, are the Top and Tail commands that allow you to perform quick edits to segments in the Timeline.

You use the Top and Tail buttons found in the Edit tab of the Command palette to extract footage from the start or the end of the clip or segment, respectively. A Top edit removes all of the clip from the start of the segment to the position indicator; a Tail edit does the same thing from the position indicator to the end of the segment.

Avid Xpress Pro lets you group clips together as a single composite clip, which you can then edit by selecting which shot you want to appear in your sequence.

With Media Composer, in addition to the familiar Group feature, you can also use the Multigroup feature to extend grouping in several ways. For instance, instead of taking related clips (such as those of a scene shot from different camera angles) and trying to find an appropriate sync point in each clip so you can edit them into a sequence, Multigrouping allows you to precisely sync clips with a common timecode. You can then edit numerous sequential groups into a rough sequence.

In addition to the Multigroup function, Media Composer adds the ability to use a nine split source Mulitcam view, so instead of viewing just four clips, as in Avid Xpress Pros quad split view, you can now view up to nine clips at once.

The script-based editing feature in Avid Xpress Pro and Media Composer allows you to adapt a lined script for use in any type of digital production. Generally, using script-based editing entails placing script marks in your sequence as a way to sync your media clips with a script. For Avid Xpress Pro users, script marks are inserted manually in the sequence; as a Media Composer user, you have the option of automating this task by using ScriptSync.

This demo doesnt go over all of the details of script-based editing here consult your Media Composer Help for more information but note that you can use scripts in a wide variety of projects including everything from corporate spots and advertisements to feature films. And the basic workflow is the same: you import a script, and then open the Script window and make any changes, arrange your takes, and link clips to your script. You can then use ScriptSync to set your script marks automatically.

ScriptSync uses phonetic-indexing technology from Nexidia to analyze the audio portion of a clip and match it to lines of the script text. To use ScriptSync, select a take that includes audio and load it into the monitor.

Select ScriptSync from the Script menu to open the ScriptSync dialog box, which gives you some options for setting up the conditions for placing script marks:

• You can select a language to use for your script (for both the audio and the text).

• You can choose the audio tracks you want to use.

• And you can indicate how ScriptSync should handle some common conventions of script-writing.

Category:

Film & Animation

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[BieberEgypt]

@slantone it doesn't cost thousands x)

It's for 200$ or something. xD

[animeflip]

Is there a better video software than this?

[uustinohh]

@Mastersun88 incase you still don't know, you need to capture video clips, go to file, capture and then take out the parts of the clips you want. at least, thats what i do, i keep my tape in the camera and use a firewire to connect it to the comp and bam:P

[wories]

Students can buy Media Composer for less than 600$. So it could be affordable for him. You can't asume a person didn't buy it, just because he doesn't understand how to use it.

[junkerde]

@Mastersun88 hahaha "i do now"...hahahaha..you will fail at making videos like AMDSfilms if it took you that long to figure it out

[junkerde]

what i find funny is this is 2-2 thousand dollars and you dont even know how to import...wasted your mmoney...wait more like wasted your fucking brain...gimme it!

[slantone]

if you did buy this program- you woudlve spend thousands- and be a professional editor, and you would know how to import a clip. so sorry , no advice for you.

[sma1968]

something tells me that you didn't actually "buy" the program.

[Mastersun88]

I just bought this program today and I wanted to know how do you inport AVI Files I have a lot of avi Files with XVID audio codec and I wanted to know how how do you make people look like there in same scene I want to cut myself out & put me in a different scene from another movie as if I was apart of that movie.

[rann1968]

How much does this program cost?