Intro to Effects in Avid Media Composer

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Another Avid Basics video here today going through effects work in Avid media composer and how to get started with it. This will cover everything form where you'd find effects, putting them on the timeline, demo of all the most common effects (3D Warp, Animatte, Timewarp, Avid Pan and Zoom), nesting, manipulating speed and a number of tips and advice as we go!


Useful links from the video:

AE105 - Grade Turnovers
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Avid's Proxy Workflow
   • The Proxy Workflow in Avid Media Composer  

How to do 5 Great FX without plugins
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Motion VFX
https://www.motionvfx.com

The Treasurer Short Film
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Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video:
MacBook Pro 16” 2023
M2 Max / 96GB of Unified Memory / 38 Core GPU
MacOS 13.4 - Ventura
Avid Media Composer 2023.3.1


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Chapters

00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:48 - Pre-applied effects
00:07:12 - NOTE - Needing FX in Avid
00:09:55 - The Effect Pallete
00:11:11 - 3D Warp and Effect Editor
00:30:47 - Animatte
00:43:08 - NOTE - Save Effects Presets
00:44:17 - Avid Pan and Zoom
00:51:55 - Timewarp
00:57:32 - Tracking in Avid
01:08:06 - Nesting Effects
01:13:03 - A message to viewers
01:14:12 - Outro


Music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound:
https://www.bensound.com

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