MC205 | Professional Effects and Compositing for Media Composer 6
Expertise in Paint, Matte and Compositing Effects
Tap-Quiz
A boom mic entered the shot. How can I remove it?
Use the Paint effect, set it to clone and paint it out, then track it if you it moves.
Go beyond the basics and take a giant step toward your mastery of this important software. Along with MC201: Professional Picture and Sound Editing, this course will help prepare students for Media Composer 6 Professional certification .
Overview
This course teaches film and video editors about the full range of effects available in Media Composer.
You’ll go far beyond the basics and learn how to apply, design, and build your own effects, how to make full use of all of Media Composer's effects nesting techniques, how to composite various elements using different types of keys, and how to animate effects using key frames and the motion tracker.
Topics include
- Effect Design and Techniques
- Keyframes
- Using the 3D Warp Effect
- Importing Graphics and Mattes
- Keying Graphics
- Intraframe (Paint) Effects
- Tracking and Stabilizing
- Refining the Composite
What's Covered
We learn to create customized effects, and use the built-in paint and compositing effects.
What is the Paint effect?
Paint allows you to choose brushes and a paint colour, and "paint" on your video frames, much like you might paint in Photoshop. Unlike Photoshop, in Media Composer, you paint on multiple frames of video (or seconds, or minutes of it.) You can animate the paint strokes, using them for visual effects, or for retouching. You can choose between regular paint that applies a colour, or you can clone parts of your image. You can also use the paint tools to dust bust - to remove dust and scratches from your video.
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 Professional Certification.
Will I be ready to write the Professional Exam?
Not yet. This is the first of two components to prepare to write the Certified Expert Exam. The other is MC201: Professional Picture and Sound Editing. We teach a combined delivery of these courses in our 5-day Media Composer Professional Certification Bootcamp.
What book do I need?
You need to have the official textbook, Media Composer 6: Professional Effects and Compositing. The textbook 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.
