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Whether your are new to editing or a seasoned professional, our training & tutorials are designed to help you explore the endless opportunities of editing. From working with specific media types, to using specific product features to add effects and titling capabilities and more, our tutorials provide a step-by-step guide to enhance your editing skills.
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Grain Matching in Avid using Boris Continuum Complete Match Grain
John Lafauce shares his technique to match and apply authentic film grain to your Avid media using Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) AVX MatchGrain.
ScriptSync online demos
FresHDV and CamcorderInfo.com provide an in-depth look at ScriptSync, the newest feature in Media Composer - straight from the NAB showfloor.
Safe Color Limiter Effect
Learn how to use the Safe Color Limiter Effect in Avid editing applications to ensure that your programs meet any color limits that might be required for broadcast and distribution.
User Submitted: Keeping Corner Pin Compositing inside Avid
John Lafauce demonstrates you through the new Corner Pin filter in version 4.0 of Boris Continuum Complete AVX (BCC AVX4).
Editing Fundamentals
Get comfortable with the basics concepts of the Avid environment.
Working with XDCAM Media
Explore a working with XDCAM media workflow; from setting up your equipment, to importing and editing XDCAM media, to conforming to high-resolution media, and finally finishing your sequence
Panasonic P2 Support
Explore the steps in editing media created on Panasonic P2 equipment
Working with HD Media
Get a closer look at how you work with HD projects in Media Composer Adrenaline
SpectraMatte Key Effect
Learn to apply the effect and select the key color. And explore special displays that let you see exactly how your adjustments change the key
Avid Marquee Title Tool
Hand-on introduction to the many titling capabilities of Avid Marquee
Avid Interplay Tutorials
Avid Interplay Assist
Learn to use Avid Interplay Assist to log and mark clips in the Avid Interplay workgroup environment.
Avid Interplay Window
Learn to use the Avid Interplay Window for accessing remote assets while working in Avid editing applications like Avid NewsCutter.
Avid Liquid Tutorials
Note: May experience delay in load times due to size.
Commotion Effects
See commotion effects such as blue and flame in action within Avid Liquid v7.
EZ Capture
Step through how to use the EZ Capture feature in Avid Liquid v7.
Windows Media 9 Editing
Take a look at Windows Media 9 editing within the Avid Open Timeline.
Smart Sound Integration
Get an indepth look at the Smart Sound integration within Avid Liquid.
Avid Symphony Nitris Tutorials
Total Conform
Bring Avid offline projects into Avid Symphony Nitris and watch every element be seamlessly recreated for online finishing.
Color Correction
Avid Symphony Nitris is the tool of choice for editorial primary and secondary color correction.
Tracking and Stabilization
New corner pin, SteadyGlide and multi-node tracking tools make previously difficult work much easier.
SpectraMatte Keyer
Tightly integrated keying and matte control are standard tools in Avid Symphony Nitris.
Introduction to Motion Tracking
Get an overview of the tracking tools and then step through two tracking operations.
Introduction to Secondary Color Correction
Learn how to use the controls to select the input range of colors and adjust that range to produce a corrected result.
Avid Symphony Nitris - SpectraMatte Key effect
Learn how to apply the effect and which display enables you see exactly how your adjustments can change the key.
Avid Xpress Pro Tutorials
Avid Xpress Pro Tutorial
Take a step-by-step walk through the process of creating a program using Avid Xpress Pro HD
Customizable Toolsets
Everything you need to do is organized for you in the Toolsets menu. Capture, color correction, audio, and editing, exactly the way you want it. Every workspace can be layed out to suit you and saved so that they reopen the same way, every time.
Trim Tools
Powerful, easy trim tools. To begin, trim any clip, any time, with the comma and period keys. For more, step into Avid's world-famous trim mode, as easily as alt- or option-dragging a lasso across as many tracks as you want to work with, and trim all of them at once!
Multicam
Real-time Avid multicam editing. Avid offers the industry's most powerful real-time multicam editing with the industry's only mixed resolution clip groups —HD, uncompressed SD, DV and film, each in their native format, with no transcoding required.
Image Stabilization with auto-zoom
This one-step process corrects unwanted camera movement while simultaneously resizing the stabilized image to fill the frame. Doing it all in one pass saves time and preserves image quality.
Automatic Color Correction
Automatic color correction. One-touch automatic color correction analyzes an entire sequence, and applies exactly the right correction for each individual clip, using the same tools found in the renowned Avid Symphony color corrector. You won't find anything like this anywhere else.
Real-time animated alpha channels
Only Avid lets you bring movies with animated alpha channels back to your editing timeline with no additional rendering. Even animate the position, scale, and opacity of clips and add drop shadows, all in real time. Other systems don't even let you do this with additional hardware!
Pan and Zoom
Pan and Zoom with high-quality real-time preview. Toggle between viewing the animation output (the zoomed-in portion of the image only) or the whole image with a moving preview rectangle for maximum flexibility and speed.
Media Management – Bin Settings
Integrated media tracking. Advanced film and visual effects (VFX) tracking are built directly into Avid bins and timelines, including tracking of 24, 25, and 30 frame timecode, feet and frames, and film perf information. A single window tracks and displays all of this and more.
Media Management – Composer Settings and Locators
Intuitive, industry-leading asset management tools. Automatically identify which shots have already been used, rename a clip and automatically update every instance of the clip in every bin and sequence, and much more. The best part about Avid's media management? Most of the time you'll never notice it, because it just works.
Media Tool
Spend more time editing and less time looking for your footage. Avid's media management is based on years of experience managing large projects for the world's most demanding clients, and it works. Never slow down for even the largest, most complex projects.
Avid FX Tutorials
FX Transitions
Only Avid FX offers this range of graphic creation and animation power—integrated inside the Avid editing timeline! You'll work faster, with more flexibility and fewer headaches, when you work with Avid FX.
Compositing
You could spend thousands of dollars on external apps and plug-ins and still not get the features and seamless integration of Avid FX. Save time and money with the industry's most complete 2D and 3D compositing environment.
3D - Part 1
Composite 3D objects as easily as 2D objects. Everything in Avid FX, including video, can be a 3D object, complete with bump maps, reflection maps, and materials. Every 2D and 3D object can not only exist in 3D space, they can intersect and interact, and you have full control over multiple cameras and lights.
3D - Part 2
Composite 3D objects as easily as 2D objects. Everything in Avid FX, including video, can be a 3D object, complete with bump maps, reflection maps, and materials. Every 2D and 3D object can not only exist in 3D space, they can intersect and interact, and you have full control over multiple cameras and lights.
FX Filters
Avid FX includes animation features like motion tracking with corner pinning, and basic compositing features like 2D layers in 3D space – plus direct integration with the Avid editing timeline.
Titling
No matter what kind of video you do, you need titles. Nobody else has the full range of 2D and 3D titling found in Avid FX.
Avid 3D Tutorials
Modeling
Avid 3D includes hundreds of professional models. Add custom animation and drag-and-drop any of hundreds of customizable textures, materials, lights, cameras, and shaders onto the models to make them your own. You'll complete your scene almost as quickly as you can imagine it.
Text Animation
Most 3D titles look just the same as they have for the past 30 years – big blocks of monolithic metal. Avid 3D can do that if that's what you need, but there's so much more. Use industry-leading dynamic warping technology from Softimage, combined with automatic animation tools, to create compelling, unique animations like nothing you've ever seen before, in just a few clicks.
Integration
The most difficult part of working with video and 3D together is that they're not at all together. They're two very different very ways of working, and offer two very ways of handling media, making it especially difficult to get back and forth. The integration between Avid 3D and your Avid editing system makes this painless, using industry-standard AAF interchange to share MXF media.
Avid Xpress Studio Tutorial
Understand the range of video and audio editing, compositing, titling, 3D animation and effects, and DVD production capabilities available in Avid Xpress Studio
Media Composer Adrenaline Tutorials
Avid Media Composer Adrenaline Tutorial
Take a step-by-step walk through the process of creating a program using Avid Media Composer Adrenaline
Color Correction
See how easy and powerful color correction can be with Avid Media Composer Adrenaline.
Multicam
Editing multiple camera shoots has never been easier than with Avid Media Composer Adrenaline.
Consolidate/Transcode
Creating your master media file and transcoding video for alternate formats is hassle free with Avid Media Composer Adrenaline.
Working with HD Media
Avid Media Composer Adrenaline makes working with HD as easy as working with SD media.
SpectraMatte for Media Composer
Tightly integrated keying and matte control now standard in Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD.
Avid Unity ISIS Tutorials
Interface Overview
Take a look at the components that make up the Avid Unity ISIS System Administration and Health Monitoring Tools.
Creating New Users
See how easy it is to add new users to Avid Unity ISIS systems and workspaces.
Adding Storage Elements
Watch as terabytes of storage elements are quickly added and integrated into the Avid Unity ISIS system.
Monitoring Tools
See how storage blade status is displayed in a real-time graphical representation of the entire system.
Digidesign Pro Tools Tutorials
Digidesign Pro Tools 7
Discover some of the new and enhanced features of Pro Tools 7 software with these Quick Tip videos.