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Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook: What better way to learn the professional editing possibilities of Avid Media Composer than by trying out practical, real-world examples? This book has over 160 hands-on recipes and guidance covering both basic and advanced techniques.

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Chapter 2. Customizing Your Work Environment

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Settings overview

  • Creating Site Settings

  • User Profile Settings – transferring to another workstation

  • Interface settings

  • Font size adjustment

  • Creating Bin Views

  • Creating Timeline Views

  • Customizing Workspaces

  • Creating Bin Layouts

  • Linking Bin Layouts with Workspaces

  • Linking other settings with Workspaces

  • Mapping Workspaces and Bin Layouts

  • Mapping buttons and menu selections

Introduction

It's a demanding work day in the editor's chair, and the more comfortably, swiftly, and efficiently you can get through it, the better. In this section the goal is not only to show you some great features built into the software and how to make them work, but also to get you thinking about how you work and how you might use these features, so that you can have more time to be creative.

Settings overview

There is a great deal of customizability in Avid Media Composer; much of it can be achieved through various settings. The following discussions provide a helpful overview.

Types of settings

Media Composer has three types of settings as follows:

  • User Settings: These apply to modifications you make and are stored as part of your unique User Profile settings in the Avid Users folder. User settings include things such as customized keyboards, render settings, Timeline Views, Bin Views, and more. User Settings are entirely separate from Projects, which allows you to use them along with any Project and at any workstation. We will see more information on User Profile Settings later in this chapter.

  • Project Settings: Project Settings are located inside the Project folder along with the bins and folders that you created. Changes made to Project Settings affect it and any other editor(s) who work with that Project. Project Settings include information about the video format, audio configuration...

Creating Site Settings

More information about the Site Settings is included in the discussion titled Settings overview. Next we'll cover how to make them:

  1. Open a Project that contains one or more settings you want to use as Site Setting(s).

  2. Access User and Project settings via Project Window | Settings tab.

  3. Open Site Settings. From the Special menu, select Site Settings.

  4. The Site Settings window will open.

  5. In your Settings list, select one or more settings.

  6. Drag-and-drop the selected setting(s) into the Site Settings window to copy them.

  7. Close the Site Settings window.

User Profile Settings – transferring to another workstation

User Profile Settings ("User Settings" for short) are several files that are collected together in a folder (location detailed ahead). When I talk about backing up your User Settings in a moment, it's important to understand that I'm talking about backing up the entire folder, not simply the contents of that folder. Further, it's important to note that you should not rename the User Profile Settings folder. Media Composer requires that the folder name and some of the files inside be named identically.

Your User Settings should be backed up in a few locations so that you can easily access them during the workday. User Settings are notorious for becoming corrupt and then causing any number of strange, unpredictable, and decidedly unpleasant behaviors. Having a backup of your personal User Settings means you can easily replace the bad ones if/when you have to, and quickly get back to editing.

Transferring your User Settings between workstations...

Interface settings

Interface settings are not a difficult area to experiment with on your own, but I wanted to make sure to mention them so you'll check them out, as they've changed a bit over the last several releases.

Further, if you happen to be using a version of Media Composer released before version 6, there is a programming bug to be aware of—if you set your interface brightness to its lightest/brightest level, then you may find that the columns in your Effect Palette display as black. The fix for this is simply to set your interface brightness to one level darker.

How to do it...

To customize Interface settings, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the Project window, select the Settings tab, and double-click on Interface.

  2. Modify the settings as desired. You can test them out before committing to them by clicking on the Apply button.

  3. See earlier in this chapter for more information about duplicating, deleting, restoring, and naming settings. If you have multiple Interface settings by default...

Font size adjustment

As computer screens have increased in resolution, icons and fonts have decreased in size. Personally, I find that the default font sizes are too small in most of Media Composer's windows and tools (even for some with younger eyes than mine).

As of this writing, it's possible to change the font display only at the following locations:

  • The Project Window

  • The Composer Window (also known as the Source/Record Window)

  • Timeline Views

  • Bins (also see the section titled Additional Bin Font Programming later in this chapter)

  • The Effect Editor window (for this, see the section titled Effect Editor font size later in this chapter)

How to do it...

To adjust font size, perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Project Window, Composer Window (also known as the Source/Record Window), Timeline Window, or a bin to make it active.

  2. Go to the Edit menu and select Set Font.

  3. The Set Font box opens.

  4. Select a font style and/or type in a font size.

  5. Click on the OK button.

There's more...

The following are two...

Creating Bin Views

Bin Views are customized displays of information you can access when a bin is placed into Text View. These customized Bin Views are available to any bin (and the Media Tool) by using the Bin View menu at the bottom of each bin window (see the following screenshot).

In addition to the columns of information that Media Composer comes with, you can create as many custom columns of information as you like (for example, best performance, shot type, quality, and so on).

After the basic recipe for creating a Bin View, there is information on creating custom columns and changing an existing Bin View in the There's more… section.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to create Bin Views:

  1. Open a bin.

  2. Place the bin into Text View from the display menu in the lower-left corner of the bin window (it's the menu right next to the Fast Menu).

  3. Open the Bin Column Selection Window by one of these methods:

    • Right-click in an open area of the bin and select Choose Columns from the contextual...

Creating Timeline Views

Creating Timeline Views is one of the easiest things you can do to make your workday more efficient. Timeline Views allow you to create a library of different ways you like to have your Timeline displayed for various tasks. Timeline Views can be customized with the following:

  • Font style and size (see the Font size adjustment recipe in this chapter).

  • Settings found in the Timeline Window Fast Menu (hamburger-looking icon) in the lower-left corner of the Timeline Window. The settings there include things such as track color and the ability to enable/disable features such as Dupe Detection, Waveform Display, Clip Color display, and more.

Creating custom Timeline Views is very easy. After the recipe, there will be some ideas and tips for Timeline Views in the There's more… section.

How to do it...

To create Timeline Views, perform the following steps:

  1. Load a Sequence into the Timeline Window.

  2. Adjust the attributes and enable/disable features such as (but not limited to) the...

Customizing Workspaces

Prior to Media Composer Version 6, the software included both Workspaces and Toolsets. They accomplished the same thing, but were set up by the user in different ways. In version 6, the old Workspaces feature and the Toolsets feature were essentially combined and simply named as Workspaces. With that out of the way, let's discuss what they are.

Workspaces are a task-focused feature which you create so that, with just a visit to a menu or a quick push of a button you can instantly reveal the tools and windows you need for a particular type of work. For example, you go to Windows | Workspaces | Audio Editing. After selecting Audio Editing, your Source/Record window instantly reduces in size, the timeline expands taller, the Audio Tool opens, the Audio Mixer opens, and the Audio Suite opens. Not only do these windows change size and the tools open, but they are then placed on your screen(s) exactly where you like them. Again, this all happens because you set it up that...

Creating Bin Layouts

Bin Layouts made their debut in Media Composer version 6. Like Workspaces, they are a task-focused feature that, with just a visit to a menu or a push of a button, allow you to instantly reveal the bins you want and to have them arranged just as you've saved them, including in tabbed sets.

Bin Layouts can be activated independently of Workspaces, or they can be activated automatically at the same time you activate a Workspace. Avid refers to this as linking. That feature is covered in the Linking Bin Layouts with Workspaces and Mapping Workspaces and Bin Layouts recipes.

An important note is that Bin Layouts are not saved as part of your User Settings. They are actually specific to a particular Project. See the There's more… section in this recipe for additional information on this.

How to do it...

To create Bin Layouts, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to Windows menu | Bin Layout.

  2. From the submenu, do one of the following:

    • Select an existing Bin Layout

    • Select the New Bin Layout...

Linking Bin Layouts with Workspaces

There are three things you can do to make using Workspaces and Bin Layouts even faster and more useful. The first is linking a Bin Layout with a Workspace so that when you select/activate a Workspace, the linked Bin Layout simultaneously becomes active too, saving you time having to activate it separately. We'll cover that in this recipe. Immediately following this recipe are discussions about linking other settings with Workspaces, and mapping Workspaces and Bin Layouts to your keyboard and/or interface.

How to do it…

To link Bin Layouts with Workspaces, perform the following steps:

  1. Start with one of the following:

    • Go to Windows | Workspaces and select the Workspace you want to link with a Bin Layout. Once it is activated (a check mark will appear next to it in the menu), then go to the Workspaces and select Properties.

    • Go to the Project Window, click on the Settings tab, and then go to Workspaces. Double-click to open the Workspace you want to link with a...

Linking other settings with Workspaces

When you select/activate a Workspace, it is possible to have other settings in addition to Bin Layouts simultaneously becoming active (discussed in the previous recipe), saving you time and frustration having to activate them one at a time. The following are two examples:

  • Example one – audio mixing: You go to the Windows | Workspaces and select Audio Editing. Instantly, several tools open and the interface windows adjust themselves to your preset (the method to accomplish this is discussed in the earlier section about Workspaces). But the really cool thing is that the Timeline View also simultaneously switches to your preferred display setup because you linked it.

  • Example two – color correction: You go to Windows | Workspaces and select Color Correction. Instantly, tools open, the interface windows adjust themselves to your preset, the interface color changes from light gray to black, and the Timeline View simultaneously switches to your desired display...

Mapping Workspaces and Bin Layouts

You'll find that mapping your Workspaces and Bin Layouts to buttons in the interface or buttons on the keyboard will speed up your work and save you some frustration.

The engineers for Avid Media Composer Version 6 have implemented a new method for mapping Workspaces and Bin Layouts. In the Command Palette, there is now a new tab labeled as Workspaces, which provides you with 12 buttons to which either Workspaces or Bin Layouts can be assigned. It's important to note that the only way to map custom Workspaces and Bin Layouts is to use these buttons. You can not use the traditional Command Palette + "Menu to Button Reassignment" mapping method (discussed in the Mapping buttons and menu selections recipe in this chapter) with custom Workspaces or Bin Layouts. However, the original six Workspaces still do work with the traditional Command Palette + "Menu to Button Reassignment" mapping method. This is good news if you have more than 12 of these that you'd like...

Mapping buttons and menu selections

You can increase your speed and efficiency simply by placing access to tools, functions, and menu selections in convenient locations.

When you open the Command Palette (Tools menu | Command Palette), you'll see the button functions conveniently organized in tabbed sections. You'll also see the following three enable buttons at the bottom of the window:

  • Button to Button Reassignment: Enable this selection to map button functions from the palette to your interface and keyboard, to move around existing button functions on the keyboard and interface, and to copy an existing button function to another location.

  • Active Palette: Enable this selection so that you can leave the palette open and regain the ability to edit as well as to actually use/click on any function that's on the palette. For emphasis, when the Command Palette's button or menu reassignment functions are enabled, you will not be able to edit. To return to editing, either enable Active Palette or...

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Key benefits

  • Hands-on recipes in a step-by-step logical approach to quickly get started with Avid Media Composer and gain deeper understanding
  • Learn Avid Media Composer in a completely new wayó gain intensive exposure with various editing options to develop your abilities, become even more creative, and acquaint yourself with various methods that you never thought were possible
  • Understand not only why it works, but also how it works and browse through lots of tips and techniques to perform professional quality editing

Description

Avid Media Composer has become the tool of choice by editing professionals worldwide. Whether your project involves editing television programming, independent films, corporate industrials or commercials, this cookbook shows you exactly how to do so in a step-by-step and practical manner, and get the most out of Avid Media Composer editing. "Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook" is an expert, clear and logically-sequenced resource with highly effective recipes for learning Avid Media Composer essentials and beyond. It's task-based approach will help users at all experience levels gain a deeper, more thorough understanding of the software. It will help you master the essential, core editing features as well as reveal numerous tips and tricks that editors can benefit from immediately. Just some of the topics include understanding Import settings, mixing frame rates and understanding AMA (Avid Media Access), along with thorough explanations of Trim Mode, Segment Mode, and the Smart Tool. You will learn to customize your work environment with Workspaces, Bin Layouts, Timeline Views, Bin Views, Keyboard Mapping, and much more. The recipes inside are packed with practical examples, time-saving tools and methods to get you working faster and more confidently so that you can spend less time dealing with technical and operational issues and instead focusing on being creative.

Who is this book for?

If you are new to editing with Avid, this book will help you get the most out of Avid Media Composer right from the start. Even if you are intermediately experienced with Avid, you will discover new methods and gain a deeper understanding to take your Avid experience to the next level, with greater confidence.

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  • Understand Import settings and how to mix frame rates
  • Extensive coverage of trimming
  • Detailed recipes on staying in sync with complicated sequences and multiple tracks
  • Master the essentials to develop your media management skills and projects at your own pace
  • Customize your work environment with Workspaces, Bin Layouts, Timeline views, Keyboard Mapping, and more
  • Get the most out of Replace Edit, Sync Point Edit, the Clipboard, and much more
  • Get to the grips with different methods of mixing audio
  • Learn how to use group clips and perform multi cam editing like never before
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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project
Introduction
A strategy for project organization at the desktop level
Understanding Media Creation settings
Mixing frame rates
Tape capture tip: Adding Markers while Capturing
Tape capture tip: Making Subclips while Capturing
Logging clips tip: Logging from the keyboard
Logging clips tip: Keeping the Capture Tool active after logging a clip
Quickly calculating total duration of clips (or any items in a bin)
Combining available drive space and/or controlling where media is stored
Making sure your Batch Capture continues without you
Modifying clips before capture
Modifying clips after capture: Adding tracks
Modifying clips after capture: Deleting tracks
Capturing and editing at the same time
Preparing to use AMA (Avid Media Access): Getting the plug-ins
AMA (Avid Media Access) linking
Getting the AMA file's image to display as desired
Consolidating (copying) AMA Master Clips
Transcoding AMA Master Clips before beginning to edit
Transcoding AMA Master Clips after editing has begun
Consolidating an AMA sequence or subclips
Transcoding an AMA sequence
Importing stills and video files such as QuickTime
Importing audio
Adjusting audio levels before editing
Adjusting audio pan settings before editing
Setting stereo-audio tracks
Customizing Your Work Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Customizing Your Work Environment
Introduction
Settings overview
Creating Site Settings
User Profile Settings – transferring to another workstation
Interface settings
Font size adjustment
Creating Bin Views
Creating Timeline Views
Customizing Workspaces
Creating Bin Layouts
Linking Bin Layouts with Workspaces
Linking other settings with Workspaces
Mapping Workspaces and Bin Layouts
Mapping buttons and menu selections
Polishing Gems Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Polishing Gems
Introduction
Understanding Track Sensitivity
Snapping actions for the Position Indicator and in Segment Mode
Enabling and disabling all Track Selectors from the keyboard
Enabling and disabling Track Selectors using the Shift key plus drag method
Enabling and disabling Track Selectors using the Lasso
Replace Edit: How and why
Sync Point Editing: How and why
Seeing source material in the Timeline Window
Clipboard tips
Using the Match Frame function
Using the Reverse Match Frame function
Setting clip colors in a bin
Setting clip colors in the Timeline Window
Creating Split Edits Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Split Edits
Introduction
Creating a Split Edit with Double Roller or Overwrite Trim
Creating a Split Edit with the Extend function
Creating a Split Edit with Asymmetric Trimming
Maintaining and Regaining Sync Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Maintaining and Regaining Sync
Introduction
Adding Filler within a sequence with Splice or Overwrite
Adding Filler at the end of a sequence
Sync Break Indicators: Understanding them and making your own
Splicing and Extracting: Methods for staying in sync without Sync Locks
Segment Mode: Methods for staying in sync
Using the option/Alt + Add Edit method to stay in sync in Trim Mode
Asymmetric Trimming type 1: A-Side/B-Side
Asymmetric Trimming type 2: Two Heads/Two Tails
Opening up the sequence using Splice with Sync Locks enabled
Extracting with Sync Locks enabled
Extending using Ripple Trim with Sync Locks enabled
Shortening using Ripple Trim with Sync Locks enabled
Getting back in sync
Managing Your Media Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Your Media Files
Introduction
Moving media files
Copying a borrowed clip's media
Sharing clips/backing-up clips
Consolidating Subclips
Consolidating Sequences
Transcoding Sequences for archiving or before up-res
Transcoding Sequences of mixed SD and HD video
Changing the Sample Rate of clips in a bin before editing them into your Sequence
Changing the mismatched audio that has been edited into your Sequence
Prevent editing with audio that does not match the Project's Sample Rate
Setting the Media Tool display
Borrowing a clip from another Project
How to determine where media files are stored and how to move them
Isolating video of a specific resolution
Deleting specific media files from clips (for example, just the A3 and A4 files)
Deleting unused media files: Just Master Clips, just Precomputes, or both
Locking Clips and Sequences
Locking sequences to make them less easily editable
Mono and Stereo Audio Mixing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Mono and Stereo Audio Mixing
Introduction
Understanding the Track Control Panel and Keyframe Selection Tool
Understanding the Audio Mixer Tool – Clip Mode
Understanding the Audio Mixer Tool – Auto Mode
Understanding the Audio Tool (Audio Meters)
Understanding Clip Gain and Pan versus Volume and Pan Automation
Understanding Audio Project Settings
Performing audio scrubbing: digital type scrubbing
Performing audio scrubbing: analogue type scrubbing
Displaying Audio Waveforms ( also known as Sample Plot)
Displaying Clip Gain, Volume Automation, and Pan Automation in the Timeline
Clip Mode Level and Pan Adjustments
Using Clip Mode with Dissolves to smooth Level and Pan adjustments
Clip Mode: Setting a common Level or Pan to multiple segments
Clip Mode: Adjusting multiple segments by a uniform amount
Manually adding and adjusting Volume and Pan Automation keyframes
Removing/Deleting Volume and Pan Automation Keyframes
Adjusting multiple audio keyframes simultaneously
Real Time Volume and Pan Adjustment
Creating Stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 ("Multichannel") Tracks in a Sequence
Converting a multichannel track into mono tracks in a Sequence
Making Multichannel Clips (Stereo, 5.1 and 7.1)
Using AudioSuite Plug-ins
Removing AudioSuite plug-ins
Saving and Applying AudioSuite Templates
Using Real Time Audio Suite (RTAS) Plug-Ins
Removing RTAS plug-ins
Saving and Applying RTAS Effect Templates
Copying RTAS Effects between Tracks
Editing with Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Editing with Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode
Introduction
Syncing and Grouping clips with common timecode
Output Tips and Tricks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Output Tips and Tricks
Introduction
Creating accurate Color Bars and Tone
Methods for setting Sequence Timecode
Adding Filler for Color Bars, Tone, and Slate
Exporting a still image
Exporting multiple still images using Markers
Exporting a QuickTime Reference Movie
Exporting a QuickTime Movie (Self Contained)
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Having had a chance to get through this I found it to be excellently written with a good emphasis on basics but also, through the "There's more..." sections, a good amount of in depth tips that many seasoned users will find useful. It is indeed a cookbook, with well laid out recipes for how to complete specific tasks and good emphasis on what to do in preparation for these tasks. A great guide to have around for beginners and a useful reference for the more advanced. Thanks Ben!!
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Benjamin Hershleder (Hershleder.com) currently freelances as an Avid Editor and Director. He has been teaching Avid Media Composer since 1995, and became an Avid Certified Instructor in 1997. He teaches as an adjunct professor at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, at Avid Authorized Training Partner institutions, and also provides private, customized training to individuals and facilities. Hershleder is an award-winning Producer-Director and accomplished Editor. He has produced and/or directed a variety of projects for such companies as Shapiro/West, The Spark Factory, and Old Fashioned Pictures. This work includes co-writing and directing the award-winning (including an Emmy and the Gold Ebenseer Bear) short film "Paul McCall" and directing and editing the Telly award-winning documentary "The Bronx Boys – Hosted by Carl Reiner", which aired on PBS and as part of the Cinemax anthology series "Reel Life". Benjamin is currently completing the follow-up to this film. It is again hosted by Carl Reiner and is titled "The Bronx Boys – Still Playing At 80". His other credits include developing, producing, and directing the pilot of "Spoilers" (not to be confused with Kevin Smith's new production of the same name), serving as a Consulting Producer on comedian Andy Kindler's concert film "I Wish I Was Bitter", and editing Paramount Studios' "The Original Latin Kings Comedy" (George Lopez, Paul Rodriguez, Cheech Marin). His background in post-production also includes editing the indie-feature film "Hollywood Capri", two years as an editor for E! Entertainment Television, and editing an hour-long pilot episode of "In Search Of…" for Fox.
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