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REVIEW – Magnum 3 for After Effects
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, scripts are the way to add essential functionality to After Effects. There are so many scripts out there that do awesome things to speed up my workflow, and...
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Are Public Beta’s a good idea?
With the release of Blackmagic Design’s Public Beta for DaVinci Resolve 16, it got me thinking….are Public Beta’s a good idea. Every year for the last few years, BMD has released a new version of...
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Media Composer 2019 – A step in the right direction?
The day has come for Media Composer editors. As the line went in Star Wars …”It will be a day long remembered”. The release of Media Composer 2019(.6) (MC2019), is one that Avid has been pushing for...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – 2019 Multicam Updates
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe talks about Multicam editing, and more specifically the updates to Media Composer’s Multicam editing functionality. One thing that’s important to keep in mind is that...
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Text Exploder for After Effects from Mamoworld.com
If you don’t know by now, I love scripts for After Effects. They are a way to add functionality to After Effects that was never there to begin with, or to take things that don’t work the way you want,...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – 4K Multicam Off/Online
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe answers a viewers question about how to Offline 4K Red footage in HD, and then relink to your original RAW footage to finish and export your final master. To make...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – Getting Started with Particle Illusion
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe gives you a great introduction to the awesome Particle Illusion effect, included in the 2019.5 version of Continuum from Boris FX. We’re going to look at adding this...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – Settings, Settings, Settings
In this lesson, I’m going to talk about User Settings. Most people create their user settings, and then only worry about their keyboard shortcuts. In this lesson, I will discuss when you should create...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – What’s New in 2019.9
In this lesson, Kevin P McAuliffe discusses the newest release of Media Composer, 2019.9. This update is more of an aesthetic update, than a technical features update. Organization by color is...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – Working with Lens Flare 3D
In this lesson Kevin P McAuliffe talks about working with Continuum 2019’s Lens Flare 3D inside of Avid Media Composer. When editors think of Lens Flares, they think of JJ Abrams type lens flares that...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – Dailies Workflows Part 1 – Working with...
This tutorial, and the next bunch after it came from a very simple place. Someone posted on the Avid Editors of Facebook page about not understanding the proper workflow when dealing with dailies that...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – What’s New in Continuum 2020
I’m still amazed when talking to Media Composer editors, how many of them are still using the built in tools to do all their effects work. I’ll admit, I use 3D Warp and Animatte all the time, but if...
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HITFILM Pro 14 – In-Depth
Well, the HitFilm Pro team has done it again. Just when I thought they couldn’t push things to the next level, they go and release version 14 of HitFilm Pro, available for both Mac and Windows. I’ve...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – Creating Dailies Part 2 – DaVinci Resolve
One thing that editors are getting more and more into, is Color Correction/Grading using DaVinci Resolve, but most editors don’t know that it’s also a fantastic tool for creating dailies with. Resolve...
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ScreenFlow 9 – In Depth
I’ve been doing tutorials online for a long time now, and I’ve done them on both Mac and Windows, and far and away the best application for recording your screen on any platform is ScreenFlow. Nothing...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – What’s New in 2019.12?
Well, we’re going to round out this decade with the last “Let’s Edit” tutorial and we are going to take a look at the new features in the 2019.12 update of Avid Media Composer. This is not a huge...
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Learn Assimilate Scratch Step-by-Step
I’ve used quite a few NLE’s over the years. From D-Vision to Media 100 to Media Composer, Premiere, Final Cut (7&X) and then onto Resolve. I’ll be honest, they’re all more or less the same beast,...
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Learn Assimilate Scratch – Audio Syncing and Basic Conforming
So, we started out looking at Assimilate Scratch in our last article, where we looked at creating a new project, importing media, working in the Media Browser and understanding scaling and guides. In...
View ArticleLet’s Edit with Media Composer – What’s New in Sapphire 2020?
What can I say…I’m a big Sapphire fan. I need a shirt with “S_Glow” on the front of it, as I can’t count the amount of times I use that effect in the course of a week. Sapphire has always been about...
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Learn Scratch – Part 2 Notes and Outputting
Working with Notes in Scratch As you’ll see, the deeper and deeper we go into Scratch, Scratch is all about organization and information. Whether it’s on your exported clips, or in the slots in the...
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