Working with Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 First of all thanks to all those who have been commenting and tweeting and helping me out while I’m trying to get to grips with working with Avid Media...
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3 Essential Books on Avid Editing
3 Books on Editing in Avid Media Composer If you’re looking for some great books on learning Avid Media Composer and then, after having grasped the fundamentals, developing some mastery for it...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Solutions for FCP Editors
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 – Solutions for FCP Editors If you’re in the throws of making the switch from FCP7 to Avid Media Composer (or just learning Avid for the first time) and...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Part 1: Humble Beginnings
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5 I bought Avid over Christmas, making the most of Videoguys crossgrade deal, and finally installed Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 in the new year. The download and install...
How To Be a DIT – Part 3
How To Be a DIT – Part 3 I’ve blogged a few times about how to become a DIT or a Digital Imaging Technician, bringing together the best things I can find from the internet to help those...
Avid Media Composer Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Learning Avid – A collection of useful links I’ve recently bought Avid and so have been on the look out for all the tips, tricks and tutorials I can find. Here are a whole host of the...
Interviews with Christopher Nolan’s Editing Team
Editor Lee Smith & Assistant John Lee in Interview Christopher Nolan is undoubtably one of my favourite directors and his editing team – Editor Lee Smith and Assistant Editor John Lee...
Why now is a good time to buy Avid
Why you might want to think about buying Avid Media Composer 6.5 I’ve been a Final Cut Pro editor for my whole working life, which is inching towards a decade which isn’t that long in the...
Getting your project into Resolve v9
Importing your edit into DaVinci Resolve If you’re looking for a one stop place to find out how to import your project into DaVinci Resolve this quick post should get you in and out in any NLE...
An Editor’s Epic Christmas List
What to buy a film editor for Christmas? The Christmas is almost upon us and you’re thinking about just how much you love, value and appreciate your humble film editor. You want to show them...
Editing Tips from the Editor of The Amazing Spiderman
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has added two more tutorials to his blog one (above) on how to do basic rotoscoping in order...
Editing The Avengers – Jeff Ford
Avid Roughcut – Cutting features of all sizes The Avid Roughcut podcast is a wealth of excellent editing information, advice and insight – I’ve selected some of the best in this...
Clever uses of Metadata in Avid
Time-saving Metadata Techniques Scott Simmons linked to these two tutorials (in his ever enjoyable monthly Linkage post) from Premium Beat (where do they get all this stuff?!) which details how to...
Editing Homeland
Cutting Episodic TV on Avid Studio Daily has a fantastic interview with Jordan Goldman on his creative process for editing the acclaimed episodic TV drama Homeland. Goldman shares some of his...
Better editing in Avid
Re-editing an action sequence At the 2011 Supermeet editor Eddie Hamilton (in the middle of a Avid demo) played two versions of an edited action sequence from Kick Ass. Jump to about 6 minutes in and...