I started when i was really young my first (daw) was acid pro then i moved on to a program i would never forget Cakewalk sonar 7 this amazing daw was a kick off to what it was then but now this of a young n gun run n stun n in young adults we are thats the era of pro tools, logic, cube, presonar and...

[quote user="BobbyMurcerFan"] Thank you Douglas!! I will work on the AvidFX solution and report back. :) [/quote] In the meantime I have just finished editing a tutorial on my approach to creating the effect you are looking for. It is quite straightforward in AvidFX. If you are interested in...

The title is a statement I hear quite a lot when I suggest using AvidFX to do some effect. I cannot understand why working inside of AvidFX, through the AVX bridge is considered as outside of MC. After some pondering today, I decided to make this small Video to illustrate my confusion. http://www.screencast...

When I started with MC just over 5 years ago, I soon learned that I should let Avid's powerful Media Management take care of my media. In fact I was so careful in following the well known basic rules that I was scared of doing anything that might break them. I am now in the middle of preparing a...

[quote user="Mike Shaw"]Douglas has just Skyped me and shown me how that works. Could be very useful when I get the windows all messed up - as I do when exploring ... [/quote] That should be quite soon, Mike Actually, when I was chatting with Mike, I soon realised that he was slowing down and...

I have never really had to get to grips with the concept of nesting in MC. I have tried it, but I find that AvidFX is easier for me to understand and to control. This little Tutorial shows. in a very simple way, how nesting inside of AvidFX works. HERE IS THE VIDEO TUTORIAL Regards, Douglas

A few days ago I was out shooting a Taiko (Japanese drum) Competition. I have used the footage in an experiment with Media Composer in conjunction with a recently, by me, discovered HighDefinition slide show creation application called ProShow Producer. I am, as yet, extremely new to ProShow but I am...

[quote user="adamsonn"](I am playing with the FEC ball action at the moment on a text layer with an underlying video track - making the balls start dispersed and then coming in to form the text - this crashes the system without fail[/quote] Well, Neil That gave me something to test out. The...

[quote user="AndrewAction"]As I said before Douglas's Avid FX Tutorials on the site here are a pretty good for starters.[/quote] Thanks for the mentions Andrew. (Sorry I am a bit low on cash just now......) Terry, If you are not in a big hurry, and you contact me, I'll give you some...

[quote user="Rob"] Hi All, I am new to both the forum and in the use of Media Composer [/quote] Hello Rob, Welcome to the MC Forums. For a more graphic explanation of what has just been suggested, here is a short Video tutorial. Regards, Douglas