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New to Avid Media Composer
Hey Guys Im completely a Noob when it come to Avid I just picked it up a few days ago Ive been using Final Cut Pro for 10 years, any sites that give good tutorials to step me into it?
PS: They Dont have to be free
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The free training on Avid’s website is actually from lynda.com and is very good. I hadn’t cut video in 5 years (audio guy by trade) and was chopping 16mm (prores telecine) footage and throwing in mattes, motion effects, etc. by the end of the night.
If you are an experienced editor that should be enough to show you where the tools are that you are looking for!
https://www.avid.com/US/resources/media-composer-5-getting-started-training
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Welcome aboard. Just so you know, Avid is much different than FCP, and it’s just a fact that you WILL be resentful at first at some of the methodology. It’s a different animal.
I moved to Avid from Toaster/Flyer, Speed Razor, Incite, and D/Vision Pro. Almost all of those are closer to one another than to Avid. It took me a month of beating my head against the computer until one day I had an epiphany and started do it “the Avid way,” and the clouds parted and God rays shined down on me. Why had I tried to bend the software to my way of thinking for so long? I couldn’t say.
Now I’ve been using Avid for a decade and I don’t touch another editor unless I absolutely HAVE to. It’s so fluid and second nature to me that I don’t even think about it any more. It’s like an extension of my own two hands.
Jump in and start pushing it. Eventually it’ll make sense and I’ll wager you will become a die-hard fan sooner than you expect.
Chris Conlee
PS: Make sure you join the forum on Avid’s site as well. The people there, as here, are top pros and will help you a lot.
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The tutorials on lynda.com are great. I just switched a month ago and I got up to speed in a matter of days. MC 5.5 is actually very similar to FCP in many ways.
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I think it would be very helpful to take a structured 3-5 day course.
You know how to edit, you just need pointing at the right way to pick up the tool. There are many differences and many similarities between FCP and Avid, and just doing the tutorials can be confusing unless you’ve started in the right place. The tutorials will all help later, when you’ve got the basics.
There are also several books and tutorials specifically about moving from one tool to the other.
But, as has been said by others, it’s only a tool, it’s not difficult learning other ways of telling the story, and you’re now about to learn the best one. (In my humble opinion) -
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