Avid Editing Tips and Tricks IX

Useful tips and tricks for the Avid Media Composer.

Today's blog is the ninth edition of the Avid Editing Tips and Tricks series. This collection includes a couple that I recently learned from the Avid community. As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, you can reach me through the comments of this blog, through Google+, LinkedIn or Twitter, using the @mBlazeVideo handle.

Animating Video Inside a Custom Frame in Avid

Animating nested video in a frame as a single object.

A little while back I saw a question on the Avid Community Forum about marrying a graphic frame with video and then moving the composite as one object. It may seem easy enough, but in fact it requires the workaround we'll discuss today.

Restoring Video With Premiere Pro and YouTube

A shot from the Super-8 film, The Race.

I was recently going through some of my old college-era films. Some of these films were the projects that I began to develop my skills as a storyteller. As I said last week in "Creative Professionals: Learn By Doing", I was one of those who learned best by immersing myself completely in a project.

Creative Professionals: Learn By Doing

The first Super-8 motion picture camera I learned on.

In the same way that everyone has their own opinion as to What is the Best Video NLE Out There, there are different types of learning styles as well. Not everyone learns the same way.