Avid- Operational to Expert

Day One
Build Power users Toolbar Multilayering/Compositing Principles – Nesting – Mixdowns. Keying- Luma- Chroma(Spectramatte)- Matte. Roles of Animatte and Paint in Keying . Importing Photoshop and tiff sequences. Using pop-up monitoring to adjust composites EXERCISE ONE Open BYKER GROVE BIN, study script and cut drama scene There are continuity errors to watch out for. Discuss and play cuts Revise Alt/Ctrl/CMD options with Keyboard Commands Timeline views- wrap around- heads view etc. Configuring the Timeline. Attendees should bring a USB key with at least 128 KB space to store their settings on. EXERCISE TWO The 2003 peace march. A bin with 30-40 shots will be available. Complete descriptions of the shots and content will be in the script view option. The brief is to create a 60 second sequence which might be used as a trailer to convey the atmosphere and what transpired during the day. A pre-edited 60 second "trailer" (with music and titles), will be shown to stimulate more discussion/ideas. The class will discuss questions arising out of cutting the 60 second trail. After the first cut/seq/analysis – the rest of day one can be spent on trimming. Entering trim mode/Lassoing/exiting trim mode. JKL in trim mode Left and right hand lassoing. Marking in loop play. · Creating, moving, and replacing split edits can make for more complex trimming · Segment modes can be used for quick audio editing

Day Two
Working with audio. Importing music tracks. Audio Mixer levels and panning in source and record roles. Enlarging audio tracks with new settings. Rubber Banding. Adding keyframes, adjusting, deleting. EXERCISE TWO – OPEN FUNRUN BIN. LAY DOWN MUSIC TRACK A3-4. Marking add edits (V1A1A2) to music, using replace edit to cut sync sound bites to music. 4 way trim window. Use rubber bands to mix music levels to finish audio. Overview of audiosuite/gain/compression/equalisation Creating Titles When a new title is requested (from the clip menu) the option for Title tool or Marquee is offered (if the settings have been left at "ask me"-recommended) Open Title Tool, go through all buttons once. Brief Exercise Create and Apply Titles Titles can be promoted to Marquee, more time should be spent on Marquee as it has more features. This will be a subjective call based on student experience. Marquee's Software is independent of the Avid application, although you cannot run Marquee without Avid (Yet!). It is resolution independent and true 3D savvy. The Avid timeline will always find and open the Marquee title from Effects parameters. It is also possible to save an .mqp, which is a Marquee project, which may or not be rendered. All previewing in marquee is in real time, apart from moving textures. Marquee has complex animation possibilities, we will show some of these and the useful scripts that are in the library. Return to the peace march sequence, and add Titles, Picture-in Picture, 3D warp, and other effects. Show advanced keyframe model. ROSTRUM in MARQUEE A brief look at the ability of Marquee to do the equivalent of "Pan & Zoom" but with 3d and lighting. An image of up to 6000 x 6000 pixels (check) can be imported, allowing very high quality graphic moves, with 3D and 8 light sources even in 1920 x 1080 HD resolution. Media Management The sequence can be consolidated and transcoded to 15-1s and stored on the students USB. Alternatively a low-res Quicktime can be created to keep if wanted.