Avid Media Composer Tips and Tricks

November 28, 2011, 11:16 AM

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On November 5, 2011 ACE sponsored the first Tech Day for members and their assistants. About 75 attendees were treated to nearly two hours of fantastic information from Avid's Michael Krulik. The audio can be downloaded here. Be prepared to learn a lot!

Basic Video Editing with Photoshop CS4/CS5 Extende

November 28, 2011, 11:15 AM

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RTAS in Avid MC to Improve Dialogue and Music Play

November 28, 2011, 11:15 AM

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by Stuart Bass, A.C.E. I have found that often my tracks will sound good in my room through my nice speakers but when the show plays through smaller TV speakers, consumer amplifiers or is recorded to DVD it becomes distorted. In order to fix this it is necessary to add compression to the tracks. Compression is [...]

Fixing Fluorescent Flicker

November 28, 2011, 11:14 AM

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Ceiling fixtures driving you nuts? Try this! You can fix fluorescent flicker showing up in your videos by opening your clip in the Viewer and selecting the Motion Blur option. Then, set the pop-up menu to 4 samples at 200 Percent.

How to Use PhraseFind in Avid Media Composer

November 28, 2011, 11:12 AM

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PhraseFind is one of the most talked about new features in Avid Media Composer. Released in v. 5.5, PhraseFind phonetically searches every clip in your project for a word or phrase that you input. In just moments, it returns highly accurate results, allowing you to immediately find specific soundbites. Use PhraseFind to phonetically search for a specific word in the clips in your project...Filter your search further by combining PhraseFind searches and Find searches

Directing and Editing in the Third Dimension

November 27, 2011, 04:45 PM

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Sony began its 3-D training program several years ago with members of the International Cinematograph-ers Guild, Local 600. Earlier this year, Michelle Leigh, executive director of the 3-D Technology Center at Sony Pictures, invited members of the Editors Guild and the Directors Guild to participate. The aim of the program is to bring directors and editors up to speed on the particulars involved with shooting and editing in 3-D.

Extruding the Most Out of After Effects' 3-D

November 27, 2011, 04:43 PM

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Back in 1993, when After Effects started, it was a simple 2-D compositing and animation tool. Eighteen years later, the program is a robust 3-D tool with some very deep capabilities. In this tutorial, we’ll explore some of these features and offer some advanced tips for getting the most out of them. We’ll take a simple flat logo from Adobe Illustrator and turn it into a 3-D object, as well as explain how to add and animate a camera orbiting around it, how to add lighting and control light...

The Wall Street Shuffle

November 27, 2011, 04:41 PM

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One of the most frustrating aspects of the creative side of the film industry is that there's no corporate ladder, per se; no set way to get from A to B. That fact, however, can also be the most liberating, as demonstrated by picture editor Pete Beaudreau's journey to cutting J.C. Chandor's star- and tension-filled Wall Street drama, Margin Call, which just opened October 21 through Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate.

EDITOR'S NOTE Perfect Timing

November 27, 2011, 04:39 PM

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The Occupy Wall Street protest movement is continuously growing and expanding into cities worldwide, as is the news coverage of it. And it was not showing signs of letting up as this publication went to press in mid-October. Could director and J.C. Chandor and his team have asked for––let alone concocted or afforded––a better publicity campaign for the October 21 opening of their film Margin Call, a thriller involving the key people at a Wall Street...

Exporting Video - Alpha Channel from FCPX

November 27, 2011, 10:26 AM

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For those unfamiliar, a very simple definition of an alpha channel is a "transparent" area of a video or still image (for the full technical definition check out the Wiki on "alpha compositing"). With regions of the frame removed you can layer graphics and footage, as well as place backgrounds behind your video.