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Behind the Scenes and Avid

Posted: March 1, 2011 in Editing, Film, media
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Another great Professional workshop took place on Monday night last at the Behind the Scenes forum at the Absolute hotel. Avid Specialist speaker, Tom Crocker, spoke about the latest features of Avid’s Media Composer 5.5 which was released only a couple of weeks ago.

Behind the Scenes would like to thank Tom for his time and knowledge and also thank David O’Byrne of Tyrell for also bringing down fact sheets and other knowledge material.

We hope that the future meetings of Behind the Scenes lives up to this one.

 

More soon.

 

Avid Workshop for Limerick

Posted: February 22, 2011 in Editing
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This Monday coming, Feb 28th, will see an Avid Technologies Guest Lecture give a talk in the Millennium Theatre from 11am to 1pm.
The content of this will run on the following,

· Avid Introduction and MC5 overview (Introduction)
· Workflows and file Management AMA ( Basic)
· Workflows, File types and Timeline formats ( Advanced)

This talk is not only open to all Video and Sound Students but we have invited students from UL, Limerick College of Further Education, Mary Immaculate College and Tralee I.T.

Here is a Bio on Tom Crocker, Avid Media Composer Specialist
Tom is a very experienced Avid Demo Artist with years of industry background. Tom, who until recently, worked for Avid as a product specialist., specialising in Avid editing software.  He brings experience from both using Avid Media Composer professionally and as an Certified Avid  educator, giving many Avid Training courses over the years.

Tom will offer an insight to workflow and file manager within Avid Media Composer and discuss some of the new features that have arrived with the release of MC 5.5  ( Launched BE Feb 2011 ) . Tom Crocker has Specialist Knowledge of Video Codec’s and Colour grading. His overall Specialties are Film and Television editing and production, workflow and integration, post production.

Media Composer 5

Posted: September 16, 2010 in media
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Hi all, Well just back lecturing at LIT and low and behold we have Avid Media Composer 5 installed on all the suites. We have been running tests today to see if the intergration works with the Avid Unity server and so far there have been only a few small path issues which have been sorted.

The interface is pretty much the same folks, Avid is a bit like Porsche in that they tend to leave the look of the product the same but only tweak the performance and price as it suits them.

With the positioning of the tools on the left of the timeline and a few graphical changes MC5 seems to have pretty much the same build performance as its previous version.

MC5 does have a few new tricks however… this is taken from the http://www.avid.com website. It make interesting reading. Enjoy.

  • Directly access and edit RED files through AMA, without transcoding (images are scaled to HD frame size)
  • Work natively with QuickTime video formats, including Apple ProRes and H.264
  • Edit video and audio by dragging and dropping elements in the timeline
  • Keep high-end finishing projects in-house and gain great color precision with HD-RGB support (including dual-link I/O support with Nitris DX systems)
  • Monitor video externally with support for the Matrox MXO2 Mini
  • Mix and match frame sizes and aspect ratios — in addition to formats, frame rates, and resolutions — in the same timeline
  • Take a break during long renders and have your system email you when the job’s done
  • Import AVCHD files directly from cameras and other devices
  • Capture to and edit XDCAM HD and DVC PRO HD formats from baseband without additional hardware
  • Access low-res XDCAM proxies for offline work, with full-quality audio
  • Import text-based ancillary data and embed it in the video signal with the new “Data Track” and SMPTE 436M support using Nitris DX- and Mojo DX-based systems
  • View stereo audio tracks as single channels in the timeline for easier handling
  • Create high-quality sounds and mixes with support for RTAS audio processing plug-ins
  • Natively access and edit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 media from the new Canon cameras using AMA

You can read about these new features in more detail here:

http://www.avid.com/US/products/Media-Composer-Software/features

Avid segment tool explained

Posted: September 10, 2010 in media
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Avid Media Composer (@MediaComposer)
10/09/2010 20:32
What’s the diff. between segment INSERT and OVERWRITE tools? Learn in this lesson from GETTING STARTED training: http://youtu.be/E-g9i-v5Q0k

Avid News

Posted: September 10, 2010 in media
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10/09/2010 14:32
Just announced @IBCShow Avid DS 10.5, the first software-only version of Avid’s all-in-one VFX, finishing, conforming solution #AvidBuzz

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