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  • Avid beginner tutorials?

    Posted by David Hala on May 7, 2013 at 6:31 pm

    I’ve been primarily a FCP and Premiere editor, and would like to learn Avid. Can anyone here recommend a tutorial site to speed the transition?

    Kevin P mcauliffe replied 13 years ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Michael Hancock

    May 7, 2013 at 6:39 pm
  • Nick Griffin

    May 7, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    David-

    I was in your position four months ago and frankly found there to be a wealth of resources. A good place to begin is right here with the COW’s Kevin P. McAuliffe series of video tutorials. They are excellent. I was also able to get answers to some specific questions and clarifications here on the COW’s Avid forum.

    Because it came with my purchase of the Avid side-grade of FCP, I also had access to the full Class on Demand Media Composer / Symphony series by Steve Hullfish. If I hadn’t been given Class on Demand I still probably would have purchased it.

    Next I found Christian Foerster’s “Avid Screencasts” through the iTunes store. There’s a lot to learn from these, but the only drawback is the early ones are from previous versions of Media Composer, so there will be some things that are different from the current version.

    These 3 have gotten me up, running and making money, but I still have some areas where I’m still learning. And now this is the first I’ve heard of the Gaijin series and, after a few preliminary clicks through I can see that there’s a lot of good stuff here also.

  • David Hala

    May 8, 2013 at 2:46 am

    Thanks Michael, this looks like a great place to start. Although many of the links appear to be down.

  • David Hala

    May 8, 2013 at 2:50 am

    Thanks Nick. I will look into these.

  • Graham Tees

    May 8, 2013 at 8:02 am

    You need to view these tutorials using Firefox, as they don’t work in IE

  • Kevin P mcauliffe

    May 10, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    Hey David,

    Everything you need to get up and running you can find here:

    https://library.creativecow.net/series/Learn-Avids-Media-Composer

    Kevin P McAuliffe
    Creative COW Leader
    kevinpmcauliffe@gmail.com
    Twitter: @kpmcauliffe

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