MC101 | Editing Essentials with Avid Media Composer v6
Media Composer User Certification - Part 1
Tap-Quiz
How do you copy a section of the timeline into the Source Monitor?
Mark the clip and press Alt/Option+C.
The first step in achieving confidence, creativity, and efficiency with Avid Media Composer 6, the non-linear film/video editing application used in most movie and television productions. In conjunction with MC110: Effects Essentials, this 2-day course will aid in preparation for Avid's User-level Certification.
Topics include
- Exploring the Interface and Preparing to Edit
- Assembling a Basic Sequence
- Ingesting File-Based Media
- Manual Timeline Editing
- Refining the Edit
- Refining and Mixing Audio
- Customizing Media Composer
- Introduction to Multicamera Editing
- Creating Quick Titles and Basic Transitions
- Preparing for Output and Exporting a File
Overview
This course provides the foundation for Media Composer User Certification by leading you through the interface and basic editing techniques before moving on to trimming, fine-tuning the edit, adjusting audio, handling multi camera editing, adding transitions, adding titles, and outputting your finished project. The training is hands-on and features project-based lessons in which you work on real-world projects ranging from extreme sports and dazzling documentary footage to an episode of the television show Hell's Kitchen.
What's Covered
This course follows the order that editors typically follow when editing a show: Creating a rough-cut, refining it, adding titles, and then output.
Will this course prepare me for User Certification?
Along with MC110: Effects Essentials, this course will aid in your preparation to write the Avid Media Composer Certified User Exam. We teach both courses together in our Media Composer User Certification Bootcamp.
Who uses this software?
Just about all major TV channels, hollywood films and broadcast news channels use Avid editing systems. The Ellen Show, Madmen, The Amazing Race, CSI, Avatar (and mostly all the 3D movies) are cut on Media Composer. Check it out yourself.
My company has Avid Symphony or Avid NewsCutter. Is this course for me?
Absolutely. Avid Symphony is based on Media Composer, and adds more high-end finishing features. You can take advanced courses on the features of Symphony that are unique to Symphony, but you should take this course first, as your foundation course on Avid editing systems.
Is this course taught on Windows or Mac?
Media Composer works and looks exactly the same on Windows and Mac OS, with the exception that two keyboard keys (control & command) are reversed. Because of that, we normally teach it on Mac. If you'd prefer to take the course with Avid on Windows, we'd be more than happy to prepare a workstation with Avid Media Composer running on Windows.
Is there an exam?
There is an optional end-user exam, which, upon successful completion, will earn you the Avid Certified User Certification. The exam fee is an additional $150 when purchased with the course, or $200 if you do not take the course or have to re-write the exam. You do not need to write the exam immediately after the course, some students prefer to come back and take the course a second time to ensure they understand the material fully.
What book do I need?
You need to have the official textbook, Media Composer 6 - Editing Essentials. This will prepare you for The Certified User exam, and is not included in the course price.
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Instructor Bio
Woody has been successful as a professional video editor, working as a production editor in the Arts & Entertainment division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Woody has recently finished up writing Media Composer Professional Picture and Sound Editing, the official courseware for MC201 at Avid Training Partners world-wide. He has spent years performing online and offline editing for broadcast television. He was also a visual effects compositor on Season 4 of Lexx.
While living in England, Woody worked for Avid as a specialist in Media Composer and Avid DS. He taught editing courses for Avid and served as a consultant for the European Professional Services group of Avid.
He was a post-production consultant on Batman Begins, and a technical consultant on Harry Potter's 2 and 3. He was a trainer in broadcast news workflow at Al Aan TV in Dubai, TV3 and RTE in Dublin, BBC London, Aberdeen and Glasgow, and spent a year working for TV2/Kobenhavn, Denmark's 24-hour news channel.
Splice is endorsed by the Director’s Guild of Canada, Atlantic Regional Council, with whom Splice has had a training partnership program since 2008.
