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If you're familiar with Lightroom, you know what Split Toning is: pushing the shadows and highlights of a shot towards different hues. Who said it can't be done in Media Composer? No one? I didn't think so. SHOW NOTES Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/53 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

It's almost Christmas and I did the Santa last year. What's left? Snow! So this week, we're going to add snow to an image and we'll use a couple of advanced options to make it look ab bit more real (or a bit less fake, depending on your perspective). SHOW NOTES I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas or happy holidays or whatever you celebrate! Have a good time, appreciate your family (even though it may be hard!) and get yourself out of the edit suite for a couple of days (even though it may be hard!) Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/52 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

Starting January 1st, I'll have a new job. While that's a good thing, it also means a lot more work. So more work plus wanting to spend time with my family now and again means less time for the podcast. Right now, I'm doing a show a week, and I'm spending pretty much a whole day on each show. I will not be able to keep going at this rate. So long story short: There'll be a lot less podcasts next year. I'm sorry, I know it's important to keep posting regularly, but I just won't be able to do it any longer. I hope you guys understand, keep watching the podcast and keep posting me your questions, suggestions, stories, anything! Bye, Christian SHOW NOTES Check out the blog entry for this episode: http://avscr.de/ftr Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This week, we'll continue creating a semi-transparent video progress bar as you know them from Youtube et. al. Last week, we created the background elements in Marquee, this week, we'll create the remaining elements and then animate them in Media Composer. SHOW NOTES Learn the Marquee basics here: http://learn.avid.com/content/tutorials/marquee/tutorial.html Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/51 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This week and next, we'll create a semi-transparent video progress bar as you know them from Youtube et. al. We'll create the elements in Marquee, then (next week) animate in Media Composer. The cool thing about this approach is that you'll be able to change the length of the animation to fit your piece of video just by trimming it! SHOW NOTES Learn the Marquee basics here: http://learn.avid.com/content/tutorials/marquee/tutorial.html Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/50 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This week, another viewer suggestion: We'll create the high-contrast, saturated look that is common to many sports trailers. We'll also play around with BCC's Glow and add some flicker to the shots. SHOW NOTES Vlad Video: The Stars (Original Clip) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O3vOnyOEmU Music: Torley on Piano - Gymo (from the Album solo piano 7: Improvisations for a New Age) Flickr videos: Jump Around! - Camp Randall, UW - OSU By eytonz http://www.flickr.com/photos/eytonz/5092774897/ Video: Soccer By Clarkston SCAMP http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarkstonscamp/4864071492/ soccer game "good game" ritual [flip video] By woodleywonderworks http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/3434735884/ Soccer in Mud By suthernsir http://www.flickr.com/photos/suthernsir/4462137844/ torcida holandesa By alvez http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvez/4706574083/ trophy presentation By apasciuto http://www.flickr.com/photos/apasciuto/4841748635/ Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/49 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This week, we'll make footage look like it has been shot with a surveillance camera by distorting and degrading it. Plus, when we switch "cameras", we'll make the image break up for just a fraction of a second. SHOW NOTES If you want to manipulate your footage a bit further, try the Film Damage Effect from the BCC Effects category. Many of the option will not improve your result, but I like the Flicker option. The idea for this week's show comes from Evan Crichton of Veejo Digital Video Production: http://www.veejo.co.uk/ Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/48 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In this last episode in the audio series, I'll show you how to apply audio effects in Media Composer and a couple of neat real-world tips (like limiting you master output) that will hopefully help you out one day or another. SHOW NOTES You should know what a compressor/limiter is, how it works and how you set it up. This website explains it -- don't be fooled by its gruesome looks (after all, it was designed by an audio guy): http://www.pcmus.com/compressors.htm Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/47 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This week, we'll look into Avid's EQ Tool. It's pretty basic (look for more powerful EQs in the AudioSuite), so'll we'll cover what it can and can't do. Also: Build your own EQ preset into the Presets of the EQ's fast menu. SHOW NOTES These are the file paths to the Site EQ Presets bin: Windows: drive:\Program Files\Avid\Avid editing application\ SupportingFiles\Site_Effects\Site_EQs_Bin.avb Mac: Macintosh HD/Applications/Avid editing application/ SupportingFiles/Site_Effects/Site_EQs_Bin.avb Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/46 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

There's more than one way to manipulate audio in Media Composer (no surprise there, there's more than one way to do pretty much anything in MC). So this week, we'll explore Automation Gain, more often referred to as Audio Keyframes. You'll learn how to use this feature as well as what its benefits (and disadvantages) are compared to regular audio editing. SHOW NOTES Want to toggle audio keyframes on and off with your keyboard and do some more cool things? Check out ASC #02: Toggling Timeline Views With Your Keyboard http://avscr.de/02 Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/45 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

In the fourth installment on our series on audio, we'll take an in-depth look at the audio mixer, going through all options that are available to you to adjust multiple segments at a time. SHOW NOTES Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/44 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This week, we'll make some very simple audio edits, create transitions, check out waveforms and get rid of those horrid pops that are sometimes created by audio edits. This is actually the first part of a show that was to include the audio mixer as well, but the episode just turned out to be way too long so I had to split it up into two parts. SHOW NOTES Want to toggle waveforms on and off with your keyboard and do some more cool things? Check out ASC #02: Toggling Timeline Views With Your Keyboard http://avscr.de/02 Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/43 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

After last week's look into Avid's Pan & Zoom effect, this week we check out the Pan & Zoom effect that is included in Boris Continuum Complete 5 and later. It's a great effect that is incredibly easy to use, and we'll create a simple zoom in auto-mode (it will literally take you 30 seconds to do) and get into the nitty-gritty for more complex animations. SHOW NOTES If you haven't watched it yet, check out last week's episode on Avid Pan & Zoom: http://avidscreencast.com/asc37 The Photo that I used is by Tiagø Ribeiro: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixe/3673304464/ Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc38 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

This week's episode is all about stereo tracks: How to create them, how to get stuff into them, how to get rid of them again when the ugly beast named Compatibility rears its ugly head. Plus: Find out how to make me rich! SHOW NOTES Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/42 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan of the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

I was asked by a lot of people to do tutorials on audio editing, so this week I'll start a series on exactly that. This first episode deals with the various audio settings in Media Composer - it's a bit dry, but it lays the foundation for the episodes to come. So stick with me. SHOW NOTES Steve Cohen's great article on the different flavors of midpoint attenuations in MC's audio dissolves: http://splicenow.com/2010/01/13/audio-dissolves-come-in-two-flavors/ Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avscr.de/41 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

So you want to change the skin tones in a shot by doing a secondary color correction. You're using the methods outlined in ASC #16 (and of course, they work incredibly well!), but there's that nasty balloon in the shot that has a skin-tone-like color but that you don't want to affect. What you need now, my friend, is a garbage matte. A garbage matte restricts the key to applying only to a specific section of the image. I hear you say: "But can it be done in Media Composer?" I say: "You bet your ass it can be done! And in real-time, too!" So in this show, we'll build a secondary color correction with a garbage matte using the Spectramatte, a Paint Effect and a Matte Key. If this isn't cool, then I don't know cool. Oh. Wait. SHOW NOTES Thanks to Alexander Fell who gave me the tip on this one: http://www.xing.com/profile/Alexander_Fell Do check out the older tutorial on Secondaries, it uses a Boris Continuum Complete Effect and is generally more friendly towards the not-die-hard-geek: ASC #16: Secondary Color Correction in Media Composer http://avidscreencast.com/asc16 Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc40 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

The way Media Composer processes effects has some weird side-effects: Sometimes an effect applied to an upper video track also affects the video tracks below -- whether you intended that or not. So this week we'll take control over that issue by learning how to use nesting to your advantage. SHOW NOTES Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc39 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

I've had several requests for tutorials on Pan and Zoom, so this week and next, this will be out topic. This week, we'll look into Avid's own Pan & Zoom effect. It is used to, well, pan and zoom into images that are larger than your sequence dimensions without quality loss (as would occur if you imported the image into a bin and then used, say, a 3D Warp for panning and zooming). We'll create simple and a bit more complex animations, learn about the different temporal and spatial interpolation parameters, and of course I'll hint at some best practices and some quirks of the effect. Next week, we'll check out the Pan & Zoom effect that is included in Boris Continuum Complete 5 or later. SHOW NOTES The Photo that I used is by Tiagø Ribeiro: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixe/3673304464/ Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc37 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

With Media Composer 5, you can access Quicktime and R3D files natively using AMA (provided you have the horsepower). In this episode, I'll show you how to link to AMA volumes, change the R3D source settings (such as ISO, color temperature etc.) within Media Composer, adjust the formatting and then transcode to DNxHD. Editorial note: I apologize for the bad audio quality in this and last week's podcast. Snow Leopard seems to reset my audio input gain now and again, but this way you finally know what quantization noise sounds like! Seriously, it'll get better next week. SHOW NOTES Avid System Recommendations for AMA (System Recommendations for Media Composer Feature Performance [365919]) http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=365919 Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc36 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast

I'm finally on Media Composer 5, so in this week's episode, I'll introduce you to the most obvious new features such as the Smart Tools, Realtime Audio Effects, the new Interface and some new Keyboard Shortcuts. There are a lot of different tutorials covering similar subjects, so check out the show notes for more. SHOW NOTES Steve Cohen's Introduction to the MC5 Timeline. If you haven't watched it yet, shame on you! http://blip.tv/file/3739338 Scott Simmons' Editblog: A tour around Avid Media Composer 5.0’s interface changes http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/story/a_tour_around_avid_media_composer_5.0s_interface_changes/ Dylan Reeve's MC 5 Review: http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/avid/2010/review-media-composer-5-0.html Avid Media Composer 5 Getting Started Training. A complete Lynda.com class availabe for free from Avid. Aimed at novice users. http://www.avid.com/US/resources/media-composer-5-getting-started-training Media Composer videos from Avid's Youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/avid#grid/user/5CB187371F76AD51 Youtube: Real-Time AudioSuite (RTAS) Plug-Ins and Stereo Audio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG9WT0MY3rQ Youtube: Smart Tool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VP4mGI5K6Q Check out the blog entry for this week's episode: http://avidscreencast.com/asc35 Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/avidscreencast Become a fan on the Avid Screencast on Facebook: http://facebook.com/avidscreencast