Beginning a new video project requires a good amount of an editor’s time spent in pre-production mode. In these Avid Learning Partner tutorial-videos, Avid Certified Media Composer 6 trainer Jeff Greenberg shows you how to get your media properly organized and ingested to make your Media Composer experience fast and efficient...
It all starts with media, which comes in many shapes, sizes and in all different formats. How you deal with it and how you get it into Media Composer 6 is what this tutorial is all about! So let’s get started: Jeff begins this tutorial with an overview section that explains all the basic concepts and tools at your disposal. From there you’ll learn how to set up your project using Locations and Types.

Next up are MC6‘s Bins. You’ll learn all about Bin management, viewing techniques and some very handy advanced Bin features to sort and sift through your clips. Jeff then explains how to import everything from simple JPEGs, audio, video and even Photoshop layers. After this section he takes you deeper into AMA (Avid Media Access) and explains how it works with File and Volume linking.

Tape? Yes, if you’ve got to pull in some videotaped footage, Jeff explains how it’s done. He covers everything from setting up a deck to doing batch captures.

Table of Contents:

1. Basic Concepts
2. Understanding Media Relationships
3. Understanding Avid Media Access
4. Section Review
5. Creating a User
6. Project Locations
7. Project Types
8. Setting the Project Format
9. Finding the Settings/Preferences
10. Section Review
11. Creating Bins
12. Creating Folders
13. Deleting Bins or Folders
14. Section Review
15. Text, Frame and Script views
16. Enlarging and Reducing Poster Frames
17. Changing the Poster Frame
18. Built-in Bin Views
19. Customizing Bin Views
20. Adding Your Own Metadata
21. Sorting
22. Sifting
23. Section Review
24. Tabbed Bins
25. Moving Clips Between Bins
26. Copying and Cloning Clips
27. Saving Bins
28. Opening Bins From Another Project
29. Section Review
30. Media Creation Settings
31. Importing a JPEG
32. Importing a Photoshop File
33. Importing Video
34. Importing Audio
35. Understanding Import Settings
36. Section Review
37. AMA considerations
38. AMA file linking
39. AMA Volume linking
40. Section Review
41. I/O Hardware choices
42. Setting Up a Deck
43. The Capture Tool and Resolutions
44. Inserting a Tape
45. Capturing a Clip
46. Logging Clips
47. Batch Capture
48. Section Review
49. What Is the Attic?
50. Backing Up Projects
51. Section Review