Tips and Tricks for Avid Media Composer Editors

If you’re an editor using Avid Media Composer, the chances are you’ve been editing for years and have a few tips you can share with all the newbies out there (like me!). Thanks to editors who tweet, you can learn from the best.

With some of these tweets its well worth clicking through to see the full conversational thread for even more tips and tricks.

#Shortcut of the day: Is your title offline in @Avid Media Composer? Under Clip menu, select "Create Unrendered Title Media" to get it back. — Josh Short (@editvideofaster) August 5, 2013

#Shortcut of the Day: @Avid Media Composer, create a bin "Quick Transitions" and save custom wipes, etc. & it'll show up in transitions box — Josh Short (@editvideofaster) August 2, 2013

. @Avid tip: the more things you can map to the keyboard, the better. Map CUSTOM SIFT and SHOW UNSIFTED to make searching bins much faster. — Shane Ross (@comebackshane) August 2, 2013

@twainrichardson @MediaComposer @Avid Do you know you can load a sequence in the source monitor and toggle source/record timeline? — Strypes (@StrypesInPost) August 9, 2013

When conforming in @MediaComposer colour source clips & enable Source in Clip Colour so you can see whats relinked. pic.twitter.com/v92ydGO5f0 — Andrew McKee (@ShootCutColour) August 8, 2013

http://twitter.com/editorbelga/status/360755131903528960

http://twitter.com/editorbelga/status/351983117348777985

Also editor and writer Benjamin Hershleder has recently been tweeting some great tips from his excellent book The Avid Media Composer Cookbook, on a regular basis so he’s well worth a follow for more of the same!