Week 1 Notes

In the first week of our Post Production module we began learning how to work with Avid Media Composer. This is completely new to me as I have only really used Final Cut before and I look forward to learning a new piece of software.

Avid Notes 1

When starting up:

Select Project

 - Private - A project only I can open

 - Shared - A project that can be opened by others, using a different login

Format

 - FPS is Frames Per Second and 25 is the amount we use mostly. (50FPS for certain types of editing)

 - PAL is Phase Alternating Line which is the encoding systm used in Britain.

 - i means Interlaced.

 - p means Progressive.

 - Colour Space - YcbCr709

 - Stereoscopic - OFF

 - Rster - 1920 x 1080

Ways to get footage into Media Composer:

 - File - Link to AMA files. (This should only be used when editing on one machine in one session).

 - File - Import. (Files are stored in the 'Avid Media Files' folder)

                         (This has to be in the Route Directory/ Apple Edit)

In Media Composer Project

 - Left Window = Rushes Playback

 - Right Window = Sequence Playback

To find Shortcuts

 - Settings - Keyboard

Modes

 - Source/Record Mode

 - Trim Mode

 - Effect Mode

(Trim Mode is like Final Cut)

In Effect Mode

 - Tools - Effect Palette

Exercise 1

As a group we have been tasked to label and assemble clips from The Movement, a documentary about Sheffield poets, which can be found within the Shared folder.

Individual Task

I have individually been tasked to talk about a piece of music within a film for a few minutes in next weeks lesson.

Reading and Watching

We have also been told that over the course of this module we are to read In The Blink Of An Eye by Walter Murch and watch the film Senna (2010) directed by Asif Kapadia.