Avid Editing — Level I (MC101) or six months of experience editing with Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress Pro or Avid Symphony.
Moviola’s three-day Advanced Techniques, Tips and Tricks course is designed for experienced Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress Pro or Avid Symphony editors who want to become more productive by mastering the system’s sophisticated editing features and shortcuts.
At Moviola Digital, Avid class sizes are limited to eight to ten students, and each workstation is limited to just two students to ensure a positive learning experience.
Class time is divided between demonstrations by the instructor followed by hands-on practice exercises, with ample time for experimentation.
Moviola’s three-day MC201 course provides students with the following:
- Using Avid’s powerful Grouping and Multicamera features for editing any multiple camera angle project. Project complexity can range from a simple two camera interview to a four camera sit-com to a 999 multi-angle production – [VIDEO]
- Advanced navigation using “J-K-L” and Avid’s new “J-K-L Speed Ratcheting.”
- Understanding video and audio Monitoring while Trimming.
- Understanding a variety of settings for Editing, Trimming, Capturing, and system customization – [VIDEO]
- Many Trimming tricks such as “Trimming On-The-Fly,” analyzing audio at the cut point, quickly adding and removing split edits (including using the “Extend” function), and performing an asymmetric trim (trimming in two directions simultaneously, which is indispensable when editing a complex, multi-track sequence), and more.
- Slipping shots in the Timeline without being in Trim Mode.
- Timecode display options and tools.
- Advanced keyboard and interface customization to make your workday more pleasurable and more productive.
- Understanding Toolsets’ predecessor, the “Workspaces” feature, and how you can use them to make your workday more productive.
- Color-coding clips in the Bin as well as in the Timeline – [VIDEO]
- Avid’s revamped Locators feature.
- Understanding the Replace Edit and Sync Point Editing functions – [VIDEO]
- Capturing tips and settings to make the process easier and faster.
- Setting up a project’s audio settings and utilizing Avid’s ability to mix audio sample rates in the same timeline.
- How to change a clip’s audio sample rate.
- How to generate accurate color bars and tone in the Avid system.
- Advanced media management, including how to delete unused media for a project as well as how to use the Consolidate feature to make copies of media files, to move media files from one drive to another and to remove excess media for a sequence, and more.
- Transcoding media (changing a media’s resolution) for mastering a production that mixes Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) footage, for archiving a project, or for creating media that will be compatible with an earlier version of Media Composer or Symphony system.
- Using Avid’s Decompose feature to transition a low resolution sequence to a high resolution sequence for mastering.
- And more!
