Although Avid Title Tool and Avid Marquee are capable of handling most types of Text effects, it can be nice to find a quick way of using a Title template to do some more advanced effect. AvidFX has a very powerful Title tool under the bonnet. Here is a look at a quick way of creating a Bullet List.... (read more)

Not the only way to do it. But here is one way that I have found that makes sense to me. Also included is a little tip on resetting the Volume Slider to zero. Regards, Douglas The playback screen can be maximised by clicking on the "Full-Screen" button on the control strip. (read more)

I'd like to thank Pixel Monkey for starting a very interesting thread in Avid's Tips & Tutorials area. His first post gave me the inspiration for this Tutorial. The url to his thread is: http://community.avid.com/forums/t/62367.aspx The "Quick Transition" Menu has a choice of: Disslove... (read more)

Getting from the MC timeline onto the Web causes lots of confusion. Mainly because of the many variations in video formats and codecs. There is no way that a set of 3 tutorials could cover all possibilities. Taking the simple approach I will show you my workflow and then leave it up to you to discover... (read more)

Getting from the MC timeline onto the Web causes lots of confusion. Mainly because of the many variations in video formats and codecs. There is no way that a set of 3 tutorials could cover all possibilities. Taking the simple approach I will show you my workflow and then leave it up to you to discover... (read more)

This Tutorial is longer than I usually produce. This is due to the fact that I want to show a few of the pitfalls that I met when trying to learn this technique. The actual Pan & Zoom part is covered by a very informative Avid Xpress Pro product quick tour video. It can be found at: http://community... (read more)

The default keyboard has a set of very useful "nudge" commands mapped to four of the keys. Newcomers might miss these in their initial meeting with MC. Maybe you can find some use for them! Regards, Douglas The playback screen can be maximised by using the "Full-screen" button in... (read more)

The long GOP structure of HDV make life difficult if you want to create a timelapse video. The workaround I use is done by taking a video of the complete event then use the Motion Effect Editor to create the effect by timewarping. Regards, Douglas The playback screen can be maximised by using the "Full... (read more)

It's not in your default layout. If you've never heard of it you probably will never look for it, let alone find it. So here it is......... Regards Douglas PS. This tutorial has been updated after Siencs kindly pointed out an important point I had missed in the original Tutorial. Thank you Siencs... (read more)

Audio has never been my strong point. Any simple and straightforward way I can find of working with audio is of great interest to me. Here is my description of how I manually adjust audio gain without getting tied in knots. This is really a follow up to my first Audio tutorial - Audio Gain and Keyframes... (read more)