201 - Editing Tools and Techniques for Avid Media Composer August 1, 2011

Overview:
Experienced Avid Media Composer or Symphony editors gain greater productivity by mastering the system’s sophisticated editing features and tools. Students learn advanced navigation and shortcuts, along with advanced toolsets including MultiCamera, ScriptSync, and audio sweetening tools. Sessions include instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice.
Who Should Attend:
Producers, editors, assistant editors, multimedia producers
Prerequisites:
MC 101 Introduction to Avid Media Composer or equivalent experience. A background as an editor, assistant editor, director or producer is strongly recommended.
What You Will Learn:
Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.
Advanced navigation
Editing and viewing options
Mastering buttons and the keyboard
Advanced trimming techniques
MultiCamera editing
Using the ScriptSync feature
Adjusting audio EQ
Working with AudioSuite plugins

Lesson 1
Editing and Viewing Techniques
Viewing Options
Hiding the Source Monitor
Making a Full‐Screen Timeline
Turning Off Timeline Wrapping
Clip Information Window
Adjusting Track Height
Repositioning Tracks
Renaming Tracks
Selecting Tracks
Color‐Coding Clips
Using Clip Colors in the Timeline
Customizing Buttons and Keys
Mapping Menu Items
Mapping Bi-level Keys
Enhancing Functions with Modifier Keys
Match Frame
Reverse Match Frame
Match Frame Track
Find Bin
Lift Extract and Copy to Clipboard
Mark Clip
Mark Locator
Play IN to OUT
Play to Out
Summary of Alt/ Option Modifications
Using Comm and Modifiers
The Find Feature
Customizing Your Workspace
Assigning a Workspace
Deleting a Workspace 19
Viewing Options
Customize the Timeline
Customize Your Keyboard

Lesson 2
Preparing for Multi Camera Editing
Introduction to Avid Multi Camera
Multi Cam Editing Workflow
Creating Group Clips
Creating Multigroup Clips
Additional Grouping Methods
Fast Workflow for Footage Synced with Slave Time code
Fast Workflow for Footage Synced without Slave Time code
Grouping Together Fewer than Ten Clips
Ganging Footage in Monitors
Prepare the News Radio Material
Prepare the Urban Nutcracker Material More

Lesson 3
MultCamera Editing
Setting Up MultiCamera Editing
Editing the Group Clip into the Timeline
Activating MultiCamera Mode
Displaying Quad Split or Nine Split Mode
Displaying the Clip’s Name in a Quadrant
Assigning Another Clip to a Quadrant
Editing Audio
Playing Back MultiCamera Media
Editing a MultiCamera Sequence
Basic MultiCam Editing
Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys
Playing a Line cut on the Source and Client Monitors
Adding Edits On‐the‐Fly
Refining the Edit
Edit the News Radio Material
Edit the Urban Nutcracker Material

Lesson 4
Script Integration and Script Sync™
Script Integration
Script Integration Workflow
Setting Up for Script Integration
Working with Slates
Adding Takes to Existing Slates
Script Marks
Loading and Playing Marked Segments
Additional Options
Marking with Script Sync
Editing with the Script Window
Assemble a Rough Cutting the Traditional Way
Assemble a Rough Cut Using Single Mark Editing
Assemble a Rough Cut by Splicing a Script Range
Get Started
Add Script Marks Manually to the Script
Add Script Marks Automatically
Use Script Sync
Editing with the Script Window

Lesson 5
Introduction to Avid Marquee Animation
Getting Started
Moving Beyond 2D Creations
Transform Properties
Working with Layers
Viewing the Scene from Different Angles
Working with Extrudes and Bevels
Putting Edges on Objects
Exploring Light and Shadows
Getting Started with Lights
Enabling and Disabling Light Sources
Using Colored Lights
Changing the Intensity of Light Sources
Adjusting Spot Light Properties
Naming Light Sources
Introducing Shadows
Changing Shadows’ Locations
Changing the Color of Shadows
Applying Texture to Shadows
Simulating Depth Shadows
Applying Shadows to Imported Images
Get Started
Designing the Text
Add Extrudes and Bevels
Putting Edges on Objects
Adding Lighting
Adding Shapes
Designing the Shape
Adjusting Lighting of the Scene
Adding and Manipulating Shadows

Lesson 6
Avid Marquee Animation Techniques
Animation Techniques
Hiding and Showing Objects and their Tracks
Selecting and Deselecting Object Tracks
Changing the Starting and Ending Points of Objects
Viewing and Hiding the Property Curves of Objects
Selecting Properties to Animate
Creating and Adjusting Keyframes
Creating Related Keyframes Using Stamp Keyframe Buttons
Changing Property Curves at Each Keyframe Marker
Copying and Pasting Curves
Smoothing Curve Segments
Viewing the Animation
Understanding Decks and Pages
Get Started Creating the Pages in the Deck
Editing the Text
Animating the Text

Lesson 7
Adjusting Audio Frequency with Audio EQ
The Audio Mix
Broadcast Deliver Requirements and Audio
Audio Mix Theory
Using the Audio EQ Tool
EQ Terminology
Audio EQ Filters
Average Frequencies for Common Sounds
Audio EQ Tool
Applying Audio EQ Effects
Saving Audio EQ Effects
Removing Audio EQ Effects with the Remove Effect Button
Adding and Removing Audio EQ Effects in Adjacent Segments
Attacking an Unwanted Noise
Audio EQ Examples
Low‐Shelf Example
Small Octave Range Example
Using Preset EQ Effects
Creating Your Own Audio EQ Templates
Adding an EQ Template to the Audio EQ Tool Fast Menu
Applying Multiple EQ Effects
RemoveaHum: Part1
RemoveaHum: Part2
Adjust Tobey’s Voice in “Civil Wars”
Fix Audio on an ECO Challenge Canoeing Shot
Work on Your Own

Lesson 8
Working with Audio Suite Plug‐ins
Audio Suite Digital Audio Effects
Applying Audio Suite Effects
Saving and Applying Audio Suite Effect Templates
Applications of Common Audio Suite Effects
Dynamic Effects
Spectrum (EQ) Effects
Timing
Getting Started
Lengthen a Voice‐Over
Remove Edginess from a Voice