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Avid Microcredentials (AVID)

Campus
Duration
4 Weeks (24 Hours) per microcredential
Credential Awarded
Microcredential
School
School of Media

4 Week Course Breakdown

This microcredential will be delivered online over four weeks (two three-hour classes per week).

  1. Intro/Welcome/Understanding Media Composer/Understanding Formats
    • Intro/Welcome
    • Understanding Formats & Frame rates - RED, Alexa, HD, SD
    • Important utilities for you to use - MediaInfo
    • Setting Up Project Folder on Shared Storage vs Local Storage
    • Understanding how Media Composer reads its media
    • Avid Media vs Linked Media - What’s the difference?
  2. Project Creation/Selection/Project Hierarchy outside Media Composer
    • Understanding of importance of correct project creation in Media Composer
    • Navigating the Project Selection/Creation Window
    • Creating a new Project
    • Understanding Project Locations
    • Custom Project Sizes
    • Project Presets
    • Opening projects
    • Introduction to the Media Composer interface
  3. Format Pane, Settings & the Command Palette
    • Understanding the Format Pane
    • Project vs User vs Site Setting
    • Media Creation Setting
    • Audio Setting
    • Bin Settings & Bin Views
    • Composer Setting
    • Keyboard Settings & the Command Palette
    • Timeline Settings
    • Saving your Settings
  4. Getting Started
    • Creating Bins
    • Opening Bins from Other Projects
    • Sending bins to other editors
    • Clip resolution vs Project Resolution
    • Understanding, finding and downloading AMA Plug-ins
    • Locating and Opening the Audio Tool
    • Adding the Inspector to your workspace
  1. Acquiring Footage/Import vs Source Browser/Understanding Transcoding vs Consolidating
    • When to import vs using the Source Browser
    • Understanding Codecs & Avid Friendly codecs
    • What is Consolidating?
    • What is Transcoding?
    • Common mistakes people run into when Consolidating & Transcoding 
  2. Working in the Source Browser
    • Source Browser Navigation
    • Finding the files you want to import
    • List view vs Thumbnail view
    • Link & Import Settings
    • Selecting clips to Link to
  3. Understanding Source Settings
    • What are Source Settings
    • RED Source Settings vs Other formats
    • Working in the Color Encoding Tab
    • Working in Frame Flex, and why it’s required.
  4. Understanding Bins/Bin Setup & Bin Organization/Workspaces
    • Bin Icons
    • Choosing & arrangingBin Columns
    • Saving Bin Views
    • Bin Display Settings
    • Seeing how Media Composer organizes bins & projects outside of application

  1. Transcoding & Consolidating
    • When should you Consolidate vs Transcode
    • Introduction to the Consolidate/Transcode window
    • Consolidating clips vs Consolidating timelines
    • How to consolidate a clip
    • How to Transcode a clip
    • Working in the “Convert Video” window
    • Massive ingests vs Clip by clip
  2. Clip Organization after acquisition - Subclipping, Markers
    • Organizing by Clip Colors
    • Subclipping
    • Transcoding Subclipped clips
    • What are markers
    • Markers vs Spanned Markers
    • The Marker Window
    • Clip vs Sequence Markers
  3. Basic Editing
    • Calling clips up into the composer window
    • The basics of Insert vs Overwrite editing
    • Adding clips to your timeline
    • Dragging and dropping clips from bins into your timeline
    • Using the Autosequence feature
  4. Understanding the Composer Window
    • Understanding Timecode Information in the Tracking Information Menu
    • How to quickly change sequences
    • Working in the Preview window - Clearing Menu’s, Monitors and quick swapping clips
    • Changing your starting timecode
    • Working with Mask Margins 

  1. Understanding the Timeline
    • Timeline Views
    • Source vs Record side editing
    • Zooming in and out of the timeline
    • Using the Add Edit command
    • Understanding Audio Data
    • Working with Dupe Detection
    • Using Clip Colors in your Timelines.
  2. Working with Effects Timecode & Reformat Effect & Title Tool
    • Calling up the Effects Palette
    • Understanding the Effects Editor
    • Adding & Adjusting the Timecode Effect
    • Adding & Adjusting the Reformat Effect
    • Launching the Title Tool
    • Creating a Basic Watermark
    • Adding the Watermark to your timeline(s)
    • Altering your Titles
  3. Media Management
    • Deleting clips from your project
    • Media Management with the Media Tool
    • Media Management outside of Media Composer
    • Tips & tricks for moving media for remote editing
  4. Exporting Offline Timelines & Master clips
    • Export Settings
    • Built in vs User Created Settings
    • Creating a new Export Setting
    • Managing Export Settings
    • Quality at Consolidate vs Quality at export
    • Understanding Same As Source Exports
    • Media Creation Settings and your exports