The Media Composer Professional Editing I Course

Course

In London

£ 800 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Intensive workshop

  • Level

    Advanced

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    24h

  • Duration

    3 Days

The Media Composer Professional Editing I Course will give you the skills and in-depth, under-the-hood knowledge you need to distinguish yourself as a true editing professional and go for the high-profile jobs you want. With the step-by-step guidance in this course, you'll learn the skills you need to work on big-budget productions: media management (become the media management guru others look to for expert advice), advanced picture editing (learn precision cutting techniques and how to master Script Integration for long-form projects), and advanced sound editing (learn to impress your producer by creating great audio mixes). The student guide includes media and projects that you can work with at your own pace after the class is over.

This course, along with its counterpart Media Composer Professional Effects and Compositing, will prepare you for Media Composer 8 Professional certification.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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69 Wells Street, W1T 3QB

Start date

On request

About this course

- Workflow Makes, Manages, and Moves Media
- Professional File-Based Acquisition
- Frame Reformatting
- Advanced Picture Editing
- Advanced Dialogue Editing
- Script Intergration and ScriptSync
- Multicamera Editing
- Working with Multichannel Audio
- Professional Audio Mixing
- Adjusting Audio EQ
- Real-Time AudioSuite (RTAS)
- Archiving and Versioning

This course is designed for experienced Media Composer users looking to increase their skills and learn advanced features of the programme.

Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course:

- Knowledge of OS X and basic computer navigation
- Completion of The Media Composer Editing Essentials Course and The Media Composer Fundamentals I Course or equivalent experience of 12 months of full-time editing on the system
- A background as an editor, assistant editor, director or producer is strongly recommended

This course has an Avid Certified Professional Exam available at the end of both 200 level courses. The exam is normally taken on the last day of The Media Composer Professional Effects and Compositing Course, however you can arrange to take the exam at a later date.

Please note

- You must be an Avid Certified User before sitting the Professional exam. Find out more about Avid User Certifications.

Firstly, we are long established as part of the post-production industry, and therefore have an excellent understanding of the market, and the skills that post-production staff need to have. We are not purely a training company, with other divisions of the group having a huge presence in the industry.

Secondly, unlike a lot of our competitors that provide training to the post-production industry, many of the courses we run are fully approved and certified, and will give you a recognised qualification if you pass the exam (more on this later).

We do not do general training – our courses are all industry specific, and we are experts in this field.

Thirdly, we're situated in the heart of London's post-production district – where better place to train on post-production technology?

Fourthly, the team here is friendly, helpful, efficient, understanding, flexible and approachable, and the trainers, as well as being all of the above, are fully qualified and certified, and all have significant industry experience and kudos as editors / talent in their own right.

We offer a no quibble Satisfaction Guarantee. We are so sure that not only will you enjoy the experience, as well as learn what you need from the course, that if you are not satisfied, we will give you the same course again FREE of charge. It’s as simple as that, no argument*.

We are very proud to be recognised by so many of the world's leading post production software manufacturers for consistently high standards and customer satisfaction.

Through our manufacturer accreditation we are able to offer a full range of quality assessed certified courses, however we have also developed our own industry specific courses designed to release the creative person inside.

We can also fully bespoke and tailor any course to your liking. Take a look at our bespoke training section.

We are the preferred training provider for many leading media organisations including Viacom, ITV, BBC, Channel Five, Channel 4, BSkyB, Wall to Wall, Nomura Bank, to name but a few.

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Subjects

  • Video Editing
  • Media Composer
  • Sound editing
  • Avid training
  • Broadcast
  • Media
  • TV production
  • VFX
  • Workflow
  • Sound

Teachers and trainers (1)

Bernard Lyall

Bernard Lyall

Trainer

Course programme

The Media Composer Professional Picture and Sound Editing Course (MC201)

Lesson 1: Workflow Makes, Manages, And Moves Media
  • Why Understanding Workflow is important
  • Goals of Great Workflows
  • Understanding Offline and Online Procedures
  • Understanding Media and clips is important
  • Codecs are secret Decoder Rings
  • Workflow Cookbook: Recipes

Lesson 2: Professional File-Based Acquisition
  • A Brief Review of AMA linking
  • Introducing Background services
  • Using Dynamic Media Folders
  • Linking AMA Footage
  • You're Linked. Now What?
  • Interoperability with Avid Media Access (AMA)

Lesson 3: Frame Reformatting
  • Mixed Media
  • Modifying Motion Adpaters
  • Reforming Media
  • Frameflex

Lesson 4: Advanced Picture Editing
  • Working with multiple tracks
  • Cleaning Tracks
  • Enhancing Functions with Modifier keys
  • Skipping the Source Monitor

Lesson 5: Advanced Dialogue Editing
  • How Trimming works
  • Trim tool: reloaded
  • Creating a Radio Edit
  • Using a dynamic trimming
  • Using split edits
  • Advanced trim techniques

Lesson 6: Script Integration and Scripsync
  • What is a Lined Script?
  • Using script integration
  • Working with slates
  • Adding Script Marks
  • Additional Scriptsync options
  • Using Avid ScriptSync
  • Editingwith the Script Window

Lesson 7: Multicamera Editing
  • Preparing the production team
  • Avid Multicamera Editing
  • Setting up multicamera editing
  • Editing Audio
  • Multicamera Performance
  • Editing a multicamera sequence

Lesson 8: Working with Multichannel Audio
  • Understanding tracks, channels and voices
  • Mulitichannel enhancements in Media composer

Lesson 9: Professional Audio Mixing
  • Sound Mixing is Important
  • Goals of Sound mixing
  • What is Dynamic range?
  • Organising tracks for an Audio mix
  • Creating a mix
  • Understanding the mixing workflow
  • Understanding Avid Pro Tools interoperability

Lesson 10: Adjusting Audio EQ
  • Understanding audio equalization (EQ)
  • Using Average Frequencies for common sounds
  • Exploring Audio EQ Tools and Plug-ins
  • Using the AudioSuite EQ III Plug-in
  • Attacking and Unwanted Noise
  • Audio EQ examples
  • Using EQ Tool's Preset Filters

Lesson 11: Real-Time AudioSuite (RTAS)
  • Introduction to AudioSuite Plu-ins
  • AudioSuite Plug-ins extend media composer
  • Inserting RTAS effects
  • Editing an RTAS Plu-in
  • Understanding RTAS Mixdown Workflows
  • Limiting and Compressing Peak values
  • Dealing with Loud, Aggressive Audio

Lesson 12: Archiving and Versioning
  • Professional Delivery of Broadcast Material
  • Archiving Your Project
  • Introducing AS-02 versioning

The Media Composer Professional Editing I Course

£ 800 + VAT