Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Lesson 1 How Workflow Makes, Manages, and Moves Media -- Understanding Workflow -- Goals of Great Workflows -- The Big Picture -- Understanding Offline and Online Procedures -- Stages in the Creative Process -- Quality of Media -- Understanding Media and Clips -- Clips versus Media Files -- Clips in Bins, Bins in Projects -- Locating the Project Folder -- Locating a Specific Bin -- Media Drives Contain Media Files -- Tips for Choosing a Media Drive -- Scalable, Centralized Storage: Avid Unity -- Understanding Media Files -- Popular Media File Formats -- Container Files Are Content Independent -- Media Composer's Media Files -- Media Files Summary -- Codecs Are Secret Decoder Rings -- Available Video Codecs -- Available Audio Formats -- Clips Are Linked to Media Files -- Essence Is the Core of a Media File -- The Perks of Separate Media Files -- Deep Dive into Media Files and Clips -- Media Object Identifiers -- Structure of a Master Clip -- Subclips Specify a Range of Frames -- A Sequence Is a Series of Subclips -- Showing Reference Clips -- Media File Databases -- Playback: Under the Hood -- Media Offline -- Exercise 1 Exploring Projects, Clips, and Bins -- Exercise 1.1: Revealing Bins: Which Final Is Final? -- Exercise 1.2: Viewing the Media Files -- Exercise 1.3: Exploring Resolutions (Codecs) -- Exercise 1.4: Understanding Subclips -- Exercise 1.5: Media File Folders and Databases -- Lesson 2 Professional Acquisition -- Tape: It's Alive -- Close Encounters of the Magnetic Kind -- Video I/O and Monitoring Options -- Workflows for Capturing -- Capture On-the-Fly -- Capture from IN to OUT -- Logging Before Capturing Footage -- Preparing to Ingest from Tape -- Available Resolutions Are Determined by the Project Format -- Suggested Settings for Ingesting from Tape -- Extra Audio Setup.

Capturing Multi-Track Audio Clips -- Using Calibration Tone from a Tape -- Importing Audio from CD -- Extra Features of the Capture Tool -- Using Tapes from Other Projects -- Selecting a Target Drive -- Relogging a Clip -- Mounting a Tape -- Using the Console While Capturing -- Checking the Number and Duration of Clips in a Bin -- File-Based Acquisition Using Avid Media Access -- AMA Is Similar to Other Technologies -- BYOP: Bring Your Own Plug-Ins -- Using the AMA Workflow -- Traditional Ingest Method -- AMA Method -- Linking to Volume versus File -- Caveats of AMA -- Performance Is Not Optimal -- Files Shouldn't Be Moved -- Exercise 2 Professional Acquisition -- Exercise 2.1: Exploring Tape-Based -- Exercise 2.2: Checking the Installed Plug-Ins -- Exercise 2.3: Installing an AMA Plug-In -- Exercise 2.4: AMA Linking to a File -- Lesson 3 Advanced Picture Editing -- Working with Multiple Tracks -- Selecting Multiple Tracks -- Creating Tracks Out of Order -- Inserting Tracks -- Renaming Tracks -- Moving Tracks -- Cleaning Tracks -- Removing Match Frame Edits -- Finding Black Holes -- Finding Flash Frames -- Enhancing Functions with Modifier Keys -- Match Frame -- Find Bin -- Lift and Extract -- Copy to Clipboard -- Clip Name Menu -- Mark Clip -- Play IN to OUT -- Summary of Alt/Option Modifications -- Three-Point Editing Power User Tricks -- Using Phantom Marks -- Replace Edit -- Using Sync Point Editing (SPE) -- Integrating Mixed Media -- Frame Rates and Sizes Are Mixable -- Mixing Frame Sizes -- Mixing Frame Rates -- Modifying Motion Adapters -- Changing the Interpolation Method of a Motion Adapter -- Promoting Motion Adapters to Timewarp -- Reformatting Media -- Changing the Aspect Ratio -- Source-Side Reformatting -- Record-Side Reformatting -- Exercise 3 Editing and Refining Your Sequences -- Exercise 3.1: Sequence Cleaning.

Exercise 3.2: Sync Point Editing -- Exercise 3.3: Using Mixed Media in a Sequence -- Lesson 4 Play Together -- The Editor's Dialogue -- Markers Are Post-It Notes -- Comments Appear in Bins -- Comments versus Markers -- Color-Coding Clips -- Play Together -- Duplicating Media and Bins -- Shared Media and Bins with Avid Unity -- Exercise 4 Using Markers and Comments -- Exercise 4.1: Adding Markers -- Exercise 4.2: Adding Timeline Comments -- Exercise 4.3: Adding Bin Comments -- Lesson 5 Multicamera Editing -- Preparing the Production Team -- Multicamera Editing Speeds Production -- The Multicamera Experience -- Synchronization Options -- Avid's Multicamera Editing Workflows -- Creating Group Clips -- Creating Multigroup Clips -- Exploring Additional Grouping Methods -- Setting Up Multicamera Editing -- Editing the Group Clip into the Timeline -- Activating MultiCamera Mode -- Displaying Quad Split or Nine Split Mode -- Displaying the Clip's Name in a Quadrant -- Assigning Another Clip to a Quadrant -- Editing Audio -- Using the Audio Follow Video Option -- Multicamera Performance -- Editing a Multicamera Sequence -- Editing On-the-Fly -- Refining the Edit -- Switching Clips with the Arrow Keys -- Committing Multicamera Edits -- Exercise 5 Editing a Scene from Hell's Kitchen -- Exercise 5.1: Preparing to Use the Media -- Exercise 5.2: Editing Multicam Material with Sync Timecode -- Exercise 5.3: Editing the Hell's Kitchen Material -- Exercise 5.4: Exploring Multicam Editing Keyboard Techniques -- Lesson 6 Script Integration and ScriptSync -- What Is a Lined Script? -- Slates Capture Production Metadata -- Role of the Script Supervisor -- Lined Script Support in Media Composer -- Using Script Integration -- Script Integration Workflow -- Preparing a Script for Script Integration -- Importing the Script into Media Composer -- Linking Clips to Scripts.

Adding Takes to Existing Slates -- Working with Slates -- Loading and Playing Takes in the Source Monitor -- Interpolate Position -- Adding Script Marks -- Adding Script Marks Manually -- Automated Screening and Marking -- Editing Script Marks -- Loading and Playing Marked Segments -- Additional ScriptSync Options -- Toolbar Items -- Bin-Like Functionality -- Using Avid ScriptSync -- Marking with ScriptSync -- Editing with the Script Window -- Rough Cutting: The Traditional Way -- Rough Cutting: Using Single Mark Editing -- Rough Cutting: Splicing a Script Range -- Enriching Scripts -- Exercise 6 Using Script Integration and ScriptSync -- Exercise 6.1: Preparing the Script -- Exercise 6.2: Familiarizing Yourself with the Project -- Exercise 6.3: Associating Takes with the Script -- Exercise 6.4: Adding Script Marks Automatically -- Using Avid ScriptSync (Optional) -- Exercise 6.5: Enriching Scripts with Metadata -- Finding Lines -- Squigglies 101: Indicating Off-Screen Text -- Exercise 6.6: Editing with the Script Window -- Lesson 7 Advanced Dialogue Editing -- How Trimming Works -- Trim Tool: Reloaded -- Incoming and Outgoing Frames -- Playback Function Changes -- Trim Counters -- Trim Buttons -- Specifying the Clips Affected by a Trim -- Edits, Including Trims, Are Applied Immediately -- Jumping Between Edits in Trim Mode -- Using Relative Timecode Offset for Trimming -- Digital Audio Scrubbing -- Unobstructed Waveforms -- Creating a Radio Edit -- Disabling the Video Monitoring -- Sync Locks -- Add Edit -- Using Dynamic Trimming -- Shortcuts While Playing in a Loop -- Isolating the Incoming or Outgoing Side -- Using Mark IN to Adjust an Edit -- J-K-L Trimming -- Using Split Edits -- Creating Split Edits -- Using Extend Edit -- Using Trim versus Extend Edit to Create Split Edits -- Removing Split Edits -- Advanced Trim Techniques.

Bidirectional Trimming -- Asynchronous Trimming -- Exercise 7 Performing Advanced Editing -- Exercise 7.1: Performing a Radio Edit -- Exercise 7.2: Using Dynamic Trimming -- Exercise 7.3: Creating Split Edits -- Exercise 7.4: Using Advanced Trimming Techniques -- Lesson 8 Working with Multichannel Audio -- Understanding Tracks, Channels, and Voices -- Tracks Contain Clips of the Same Type -- A Channel Is a Physical Connection -- A Voice Is a Distinct Sound -- Multichannel Enhancements in Media Composer -- Creating Multichannel Sequence Tracks -- Creating Multichannel Source Clips -- Displaying Track Formats in Bins -- Using the Track Control Panel -- Mute and Solo -- Making a Track Inactive -- Using Audio Scrub -- Working with Surround Sound -- Sequence Audio Format -- Audio Mix Mode and Monitoring Options -- Using the Audio Mixer for Multichannel Mixing -- Stereo Panning -- Surround Panning -- Advanced Surround Panning -- Exercise 8 Working with Multichannel Audio -- Exercise 8.1: Modifying Clips and Experimenting with Voices -- Exercise 8.2: Understanding Active and Inactive Tracks -- Exercise 8.3: Stereo Panning -- Exercise 8.4: Using Surround Panning (Optional) -- Lesson 9 Fundamentals of Audio Mixing -- Sound Mixing Is Important -- Goals of Sound Mixing -- Achieving Balance -- Broadcast Delivery Requirements -- What Is Dynamic Range? -- dBFS: Decibels Full Scale -- The Audio Tool -- Sound Mixing Vernacular -- Creating a Mix -- Consider Your Environment -- Using the Audio Mixer -- Source-Side versus Record-Side Audio Mixer -- Understanding the Mixing Workflow -- Separate the Audio Tracks -- Adjusting Clip Gain -- Adjusting Clip Volume by Adding Keyframes -- Adjusting Clip Volume Dynamically -- Add Audio Dissolves (Crossfades) -- Understanding Avid Pro Tools Interoperability -- Metadata Goes to Pro Tools.

Sending Sound from Media Composer to Pro Tools.