I am a relative newcomer to Media Composer (early 2008) and as I began to feel my way around I got the idea of documenting my adventures by creating short video tutorials, Avid had already a large number of excellent, professionally produced tutorials online. I learned very much from watching them. However... (read more)

The seventh in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer. Many newcomers, myself included, come to MC with an HDV camera and capture through a firewire card. Then the first time they try to export a QT-reference file, up pops the... (read more)

I once used BorisFX as a plug-in to Avid Liquid and later in MC 2.8 to paint paths. I never could get consistent results. After upgrading to MC 3.x and installing Avid FX I found that the Paint a Path effect was much easier to apply and control. AvidFX (Boris Red) still presents a steep learning curve... (read more)

This is a follow-on from the "Simple Vignette created by the Paint Effect" Tutorial. Showing how to save your new effect and re-use it in your project, or use it an any other project you are working with. Regards, Douglas (read more)

Continuing my series of Tutorials on the very basic stuff that can be difficult to find if you are a newcomer to MC's workflow. This time I try to show the importance of reading the manual before trying to adjust the audio gain! Regards, Douglas (read more)

There are, of course, more than 2 new buttons! These 2 are, however, 2 that I have been hoping for. They give you the ability to select all tracks to the left or the right of the cursor with a single keystroke. The tutorial also shows the process of mapping them to the keyboard. As usual my tutorial... (read more)

More Newcomer short basic stuff. 2 methods I am familiar with when resizing video tracks. Regards, Douglas (read more)

This is a follow on from the previous Tutorial about toggling between the source and record monitors in the timeline. Again, intended for the newcomer, it also introduced the idea of keyboard mapping. I missed one point in the tutorial. I should have mentioned that you must select "Button to Button... (read more)

In response to a question in the MC PC Forum I made a "quick" video tutorial. The thread in the forum continued to get responses from other users and now contains quite a lot of good tips about different ways of adding "Black" or "Fillers". The thread is at: http://community... (read more)

This tutorial deals with an easy way to keep clips restricted to vertical movement only, when moving them from track to track. Regards, Douglas This tutorial can be viewed at "Full-screen" by clicking on the icon on the toolbar (read more)