Avid Media Composer 6

Discover how to purchase and install Avid Media Composer 6, download Mac and Windows installers, and complete setup with authentication after selecting destination and components.

Activate and manage your Avid Media Composer license by linking your system ID to a code from Avid. Choose internet or offline activation, with dongle options and a 30-day trial.

Explore the multi-window interface of Avid Media Composer 6, using customizable workspaces to arrange tools, views, and buttons for flexible, efficient editing.

Explore how menus vary by the active window, with grayed out options, and use arrows, fast menus, and right-click shortcuts to access media and timecode options.

Explore basic workflows in Avid Media Composer 6 for tape-based and non-tape media, prioritizing storytelling through your project with customizable, powerful effects editing and audio key framing.

Explore the project window and create a new project with a private location, then configure format, aspect ratio, color space, stereo, and understand that bins hold media, sequences, and subclips.

Import media quickly into an Avid Media Composer 6 project, preview clips in the bin, and assemble a first sequence using podcast footage, stills, video, and titles in the format.

Create and manage sequences to organize media, name timelines, and edit with precise time code, keyboard shortcuts, and track controls for efficient final format.

Create and switch user profiles to tailor project settings, including window layouts, within Avid Media Composer 6, and import or export profiles to switch roles across workstations.

Learn to use and create workspaces in Avid Media Composer 6, save current settings, and link named settings for quick window layout restoration.

Explore how to manage and switch system settings in Avid Media Composer, duplicating and linking settings across workspaces, with import/export options, and quick copy-paste between projects.

Explore how the command palette ties to settings and tool palettes in avid media composer, showing how to trigger actions, map functions, and customize buttons on the active palette.

Learn how to configure an Avid compatible deck controller, attach a deck, view timecode status, use transport controls, and set up deck settings, ports, and tape information.

Explore the built-in Avid calculator to perform frame-rate math, convert hours, minutes, seconds, and frames, and compute total frames across 25 fps, 13:9 drop, or 39 drop.

Explore using the capture tool in Avid Media Composer 6 to capture media from a camera, log while capturing, set in and out points, and manage batch and recapture workflows.

Learn capturing and logging in Avid Media Composer 6, including naming tapes, setting in and out points, capturing from in to out, and creating logs that populate the bin.

Learn keyboard control for Media Composer transport with j, k, and l to play, reverse, and adjust speed, enabling efficient navigation when capturing in and out points.

Master markers and subclips in Avid Media Composer 6 by capturing with function keys to set start and end points, creating multiple subclips from a master clip.

Learn how to recapture offline media in a sequence using timecode, including batch capture, resolution changes, and reconciling master clips to restore lost footage from tapes.

Master the import workflow for audio in Avid Media Composer by configuring import settings, choosing multi-channel formats (stereo, 5.1, mono) and channel order, and aligning sample rate and bit depth.

Import images in avid media composer with drag-and-drop or the import menu, then adjust image size, file pixel-to-video mapping, and alpha handling to fit the project format.

Import compressed video files into a 16:9 HD workflow in Media Composer, set consistent import settings, and verify clips in the viewer before moving to Pro Tools.

Send a sequence from Media Composer to Pro Tools, adjust export settings, consolidate media, and return audio edits for a seamless back-and-forth workflow.

Navigate bin views in avid media composer 6 to organize video and audio clips with icons, text/frame/script views, and metadata like creation date and time codes.

Explore the bin menu in Avid Media Composer 6, customize views and columns, sort and select media, reverse selections, and manage offline items, media relatives, and sources.

Learn to create ad hoc storyboards in Avid Media Composer using the bin: reorder clips, resize frames, align to a grid, and save or print the storyboard.

Explore Avid media access (a.m.a.) to link cameras and external media, gain native access to file-based video without moving, importing, or transcoding, and work with online/offline media via volume linking.

Explore workflows in avid media composer 6, demonstrating native playback on the timeline without transcoding, reconnecting media when volumes are removed, and managing A-MEI settings and backups.