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Media Composer Professional Editing I Course

Learn in our state of the art training centre or Live & Online with this 3 day hands on Advanced Avid Certified Media Composer Professional Editing I Course will take you to a new level of video and film editing and provide you with the tips, tricks and in-depth knowledge to distinguish yourself as a true editing professional.

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2-day intensive
March 18-19, 2025

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Day 1: Media Composer Professional Editing I Course

Starting Out

  • Planning Your Edit

  • Overview of Workflows

  • Considerations When Starting a New Project

  • Preparing the Project Settings

  • Common Capture and Delivery Formats

  • Storage Requirements

  • Preparing the System

  • Where Does Your Project and Associated Data Reside?

  • Exploring Resolutions (Codecs)

  • Reveal Bins: Which Final is Final?

  • Media File Folders and Databases

  • Audio Midpoint Attenuation

  • Making a Duplicate Setting

  • Input: Link or Import?

  • Working With the Source Browser

  • Using the Browser Tool to Link Media

  • Working with Camera Cards

  • Using the Source Browser Tool to Import Media

  • Other Ways to Link or Import Media

  • Workflow for Ingesting Media

  • Consolidate vs. Transcode

  • Background Consolidating or Transcoding

  • How Media Composer Adapts Footage

  • Aspect Ratio Issues with Standard Definition Footage

  • Relinking to Files that have Moved

  • Workflow for Offline to Online

  • Preparing the Production Team

  • Avid Multicamera Editing Workflows

  • Avid Multicamera Editing Workflows

  • Setting Up for Multicamera Editing

  • Editing a Multicamera Sequence

  • Committing Multicamera Edits

  • Creating Multigroup Clips

  • Additional Grouping Methods: Ganging Footage in Monitors

  • A New World of Editing

  • The Timeline

  • Sequence Templates and Favourite Bins

  • Working with Tracks in the Timeline

  • Cleaning Tracks

  • Enhancing Functions with Modifier Keys

  • Understanding Track Order

  • Sequence Cleaning

  • Sync Point Editing

  • Working with Still Graphics

  • Linking to a File

  • Importing a File

  • Organisation

  • Importing Animated Graphics

  • Batch Import in the Graphic workflow

  • Editing Graphics and Logos with Alpha

  • Animated Lower Thirds

  • Importing Photoshop Layers

  • Unlocking the Matte Key

  • Adding Graphics in incubate

  • Reviewing Effect Techniques

  • Using the 3D Warp Effect

  • Saving and Using Effect Templates

  • Making a Video Wall

  • Adding Some Animation

  • Some Final Considerations for Keyframes

  • Collapsing Tracks in the Timeline

  • Understanding Perspective and Target

  • A Quick Guide to the Remaining Features

  • The Colour Correction Tool

  • Colour Correction Workflow

  • Semi-Automatic Correction

  • Colour Cast Removal

  • Using Correction Templates

  • Keeping It Legal

  • Preparing for the Audio Mix

  • Understanding Tracks, Channels and Voices

  • Stereo

  • Workflow for Audio Mixing

  • Applying Audio Effects

  • Audio Effects: EQ

  • Audio Effects: Dynamics

  • Remove Hum at a Particular Frequency

  • Remove Noise at a Particular Level

  • What are your Delivery Requirements?

  • Preparing for Output

  • Closed Captions

  • Reformatting

  • Final Considerations Before Output

  • Output Options

  • Archiving Your Project

  • Introducing AS-02-Versioning

  • Cleaning Up Your Media

  • Performing a Data Mixdown

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What's Included

Comprehensive Manual

Detailed course materials

Certificate

Upon completion

Hands-on Practice

Real-world projects

Video Tutorials

Supporting content

Course Notes

Downloadable PDFs

Practice Files

Sample footage

What You Will Need

Who Should Attend

This course is perfect for anyone looking to learn professional video editing from scratch. Whether you’re starting a new career or adding to your existing skillset, this course will give you the foundation you need.
  • Aspiring video editors starting their career
  • Content creators wanting to edit videos
  • Familiarity with Mac or Windows OS
  • No Prior Knowledge of Editing experience


  • Social media managers creating content
  • Basic Computer literacy

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