Avid Media Composer Notes

• Log on to the avid
• Open 'Avid Media Composer' on the home screen
• Create a New Project on the dialog box that pops up
• Write a project name
• 1080/25p
• Open footage, select files, drag them into the box labelled "[Your Project Name] Bin"
• Raw Footage Window (left) - footage from camera
• Production Footage Window (right) - footage being created
• Yellow Arrow = Splice-in button
• Red Arrow = Overwrite button
• If the insertion point is at the beginning, and you press the overwrite button,
• Trim Mode - pink video window to the left represents end of first shot, pink video window to the right represents beginning of second shot
• Click left video window - pink window turns yellow
• Single arrows represent 1 frame
• Double arrows represents 10 frames
• Pink bar on both sides grows first clip, cuts frames of second clip
• Add Edit button puts cut right in the middle of the clip, to create a pause in the clip so you can put another clip in between
• An "Assembly Edit" is putting the clips down in a rough form, in storyboard order (before you refine them/change them)

Bins are where we store footage
Have separate bins for separate days for filming
Bins enable us to differentiate footage in numerous ways