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Introduction to Video Editing in Avid Media Composer

Josh ShortLessons: 18Length: 1.6 hours
Post-Production Video Editing
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4.3 The Timeline

Learn how to customize the timeline, what locking tracks does, how to create new tracks, and how to play footage in various ways.

1.Introduction
2 lessons, 02:40

1.1
Introduction
00:42

1.2
Tools, Resources, and Requirements
01:58

2.The Media Composer Environment
3 lessons, 19:14

2.1
Terminology
06:31

2.2
Interface Tour: Layout, Keys, Menus and Tools
07:29

2.3
How Media Composer Handles Files
05:14

3.Project Setup and Preparation
3 lessons, 18:46

3.1
Projects, the Project Window, and User Profiles
06:25

3.2
Working With Bins
04:16

3.3
Importing Footage and AMA
08:05

4.Getting Started With Sequences
4 lessons, 24:41

4.1
Organizing Footage and Planning
04:38

4.2
Working With Sequences
06:31

4.3
The Timeline
05:57

4.4
Keyboard
07:35

5.Starting the Edit
5 lessons, 31:32

5.1
Adding Shots to the Sequence
10:30

5.2
Organizing Shots
07:31

5.3
Trimming
05:13

5.4
Editing Theory
04:19

5.5
Exporting
03:59

6.Conclusion
1 lesson, 01:02

6.1
Conclusion
01:02

Josh Short
Josh Short
I'm a video editor based in Northern Virginia and Washington, DC. I help video editors of all levels improve their craft through online education. I create corporate, educational and marketing videos. I'm also mildly obsessed with baseball and my dog.
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