Media Composer (75 Tutorials)

Avid Media Composer: Color Correction and Color Grading
June 28, 2016
Learn about color grading and/or color correction in Avid Media Composer. Here are many resources with advice from professional colorists.

Avid: Intro to mocha Pro 5
June 7, 2016
Avid Media Composer editors can learn how to get started with the mocha Pro 5 plug-in with this quick tutorial from Imagineer Systems.

Boris Continuum Transitioning with Cross Zoom and Removing Dead Pixels
May 25, 2016
Transitioning with Cross Zoom for BCC, Media Composer & Premiere Pro and Quick Tip: Removing Dead Pixels for BCC & After Effects

Top and Tail Editing in Avid Media Composer
April 26, 2016
Top and Tail editing can be a big editing time saver. Learn how to use it with single and multiple tracks.

BCC & Avid: Advanced Credit Rolls and Crawls
April 20, 2016
Learn how the new BCC Title Studio easily delivers multi-page credit rolls in a minutes. Plus, working in any resolution and adding supers and title crawls – all without leaving your timeline.

In Depth: Skin Retouching Part 5: Some New Tools and Tutorials
March 2, 2016
Since I started this series, there have been a couple of new tools on the market for skin touch-up and smoothing, as well as a couple of useful tutorials on the topic. I’ll talk about Sheffield Makeup Artist III, which came out in February, and Boris Continuum Complete Beauty Studio.

Avid MC & GoPro Workflow and Fisheye Removal
February 23, 2016
Kevin P McAuliffe explains the workflow for using GoPro footage within Avid Media Composer. Topics include how to bring the video into MC using the AMA Link, resizing without loosing quality using FrameFlex, and fisheye removal using BCC Image Restoration. Click the link below to watch the tutorial. This tutorial is 2 years old, but don't worry, it is all still relevant.

Avid Media Composer Bin Layouts and Displays
January 27, 2016
Check out this great Avid Media Composer tutorial that might help speed up your current workflow!
The Video Editors Guide to Color Grading
January 12, 2016
ncreasingly, color grading is being handled by video editors working on laptops and desktops instead of calibrated displays. Here are some ways to make this reality work for you.

10 Useful Avid Console Commands
January 4, 2016
Less of a tutorial and more tips and tricks, this blog post from Digital Rebellion tells you how to utilize the little known Avid console window to enhance performance, access hidden features and more.

Dialogue Clean-Up with AAX Effects in Avid
November 30, 2015
Evan Schiff shows you a technique he learned while working on ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’, from Will Files of Skywalker Sound, for dialogue clean up with AAX in Avid Media Composer.

Avid Speed Ramp
November 30, 2015
Walt Louie walks us through how to use the speed ramp and motion effect in Avid Media Composer.

Avid MC/Resolve Round-Trip Workflow
November 16, 2015
Scott Freeman has a tutorial up at Creative Cow named “3 Fields for Flawless Conform. Every File. Every Time.” Scott explains the three metadata fields to watch for seamless Avid-Resolve roundtripping.

Avid Safe Color Limiter
November 10, 2015
Tutorial on applying the Safe Color Limiter effect using Avid Media Composer

Mucho mocha!
November 10, 2015
We’ve compiled several Imagineer Systems mocha Pro tutorials in one blog to help make it easier for you to learn mocha, including roto painting, adjusting a track, how/when to manual track and more.