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)

Easy to do when you know how, but sometimes difficult for a newcomer to figure out! NB. When actually in the "Freeze-frame" pulldown menu, there are many more choices than I mention in this tutorial. For example you can choose "others" and specify an exact length for the created Freeze... (read more)

It was most out of curiosity that I tested the SubCap generator. Normally I add subtitles to my projects when authoring in Avid DVD. As my editing computer is running under Windows XP Pro, Japanese edition, I was surprised to see that there were problems with entering Japanese text. Here is how I solved... (read more)

I have seen threads started by users who have problems when using Title Tool or SubCaps. If they are working in more than one language and they try to change languages MC will quite often "hang". I recently received a tip from Mr. Egawa of Avid Technology in Japan about a setting in Windows... (read more)