AE101 - PROJECT SETUP Hey Everyone! Welcome to the the first in this Assistant Editor 100 series course for Long form Film and TV workflows! (I know that’s a mouthful, I’ll just say AE100) This first one is pretty basic stuff of setting up your project and configuring settings correctly but don’t worry we will be getting into much more interesting stuff as the course goes on! Including but not limited to ingesting media, sync’ing media and prepping subclips, Project maintenance, Deliverables to online and more! While there may be a lot in here you may already know (depending on your level) there are a number of little nuggets that I’ve thrown in as well from experience, workflow tips and Avid features I’ve pointed out along the way. Next module will be going into various ways of ingesting Media into Media Composer. So stay tuned for that next week!! Also remember to let me know of anything you feel should be included or added into this course or future videos and I can make a note to cover it :) Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.4 - Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.7 Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:13 - Creating the Avid Project 04:46 - Project Layout and Structure 07:26 - Explaining the Logic of my way 20:40 - Settings - Format Tab 23:17 - Project Settings - Audio Project 23:38 - Project Settings - Media Creation 27:02 - User Settings - Audio 27:48 - User Settings - Bin 29:22 - User Settings - Full Screen Playback 30:30 - User Settings - Email 31:40 - User Settings - Import 33:23 - A note on Settings… 34:41 - OUTRO #avidmediacomposer #filmmaking #filmmakingtutorial #postproduction Music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound: https://www.bensound.com

Hey Guys! Welcome to AE102 (Part01)! Had to split this one into two parts after it became a bit too long (seeming like each chapter in this ongoing course may be around 30mins) but it offers a good thorough covering of ingesting media into Avid Media Composer, so thorough in fact there is more to come on Thursday next week!! Really hope you guys find this informative and stay tuned for more next week!!! Mentioned links from the video: Avid’s Supported formats: https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/compatibility/Media-Composer-File-Type-Support-on-macOS-Catalina Avid’s AMA Plugins Page: https://www.avid.com/plugins/ama-plugins Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.4 - Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.7 Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 04:01 - The Source Browser 08:38 - Moving on to Linking 09:42 - AMA Plugins 10:55 - A brief look at link settings 15:28 - Importing 18:45 - Consolidating 21:56 - Transcoding 29:40 - Outro #avidmediacomposer #filmmaking #filmmakingtutorial #postproduction Music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound: https://www.bensound.com

Hey everyone! Time for ingest, PART02! So in this one we’re going into some more interesting aspects of ingest such as Ingesting external transcodes, applying LUTs, FrameFlex, tinkering with sound, dealing with still images and other wee bits and bobs along the way! Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 01:34 - Ingesting external transcodes 07:49 - Applying a LUT 10:35 - Frame Flex - An Introduction 16:44 - Tinkering with Sound files 20:46 - Bringing in / using still images in Avid 24:07 - Avid Pan and Zoom 26:38 - OUTRO ALSO!!! I finally started a Patreon page! Come check it out! Being a supporter on Patreon really helps the channel on YouTube as well as it helps me keep doing what I do and making content and don’t worry there will still be plenty of content here on YouTube, just with even MORE over on Patreon ;) https://patreon.com/theavidassistant?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator Links referenced in video: What the removal of QuickTime and 32bit audio means for your workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjQ7A1INxHE The above webinar is from the Assistant Boot Camp series. You can check out their website here: https://www.assistbootcamp.com Avid Media Composer supported formats: https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/compatibility/Media-Composer-File-Type-Support-on-macOS-Catalina Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.4 - Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.7 As always music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound: https://www.bensound.com #avidmediacomposer #postproduction #filmmakingtutorial #filmmaking #theavidassistant

Hey Guys! Welcome to part01 of Sync’ing rushes in Avid Media Composer!! Apologies that this one had to be split into two parts again but there is a good reason!!! Firstly, I did a record of my sync’ing an entire four day shoot for a short film so that I could account for all the little things that crop up when sync’ing for real that I may have missed if I did a scripted video. Then of course that record ended up being about 2hours and 45mins long. So really it’s great that I was able to shorten it down to two (roughly) half hour parts!! In this first part we’ll cover the basics of building a sync map using time of day timecode, some useful keyboard shortcuts to map, doing dupe tests as well as general advice and tips for things that come up as I go through the footage :) As always, I hope you find this useful and you get something you can take away to your projects! Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.4 - Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.7 Chapters 00:00 - INTRO 01:25 - THANK-YOU Page Break Productions! 02:04 - Contents of video 03:05 - Recapping transcode ingest 04:41 - Mapping Keyboard Shortcuts 08:30 - Building your sync Map 11:30 - Sync’ing to the slate 21:41 - The Dupe Test 23:40 - Autosequences and night shoots 26:42 - General advice for Sync’ing 33:15 - OUTRO ALSO!!! I finally started a Patreon page! Come check it out! Being a supporter on Patreon really helps the channel on YouTube as well as it helps me keep doing what I do and making content and don’t worry there will still be plenty of content here on YouTube, just with even MORE over on Patreon ;) patreon.com/theavidassistant Links referenced in video: Page Break Productions https://youtube.com/c/PageBreakProductions “The Treasurer” - final cut https://youtu.be/_bhAEvA_OuE 5 AWESOME colour workflows in Avid https://youtu.be/H7syglD94_s #avidmediacomposer #filmmaking #filmmakingtutorial #postproduction Music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound: https://www.bensound.com

Hey Guys! Welcome to Part02 of Sync'ing rushes where we will sync the remaining footage for "The Treasurer". Demonstrating a few more aspects to sync'ing here such as reseeding HFR material as well as addicting action markers and a bunch of other small things that come up as I was going through the footage. As mentioned before the link to Page Break Productions and "The Treasurer" final cut is below so please check them out as they are an AMAZING group to work with. Very professional and collaborative storytellers. Page Break Productions https://youtube.com/c/PageBreakProductions “The Treasurer” - final cut https://youtu.be/_bhAEvA_OuE ALSO!!! I finally started a Patreon page! Come check it out! Being a supporter on Patreon really helps the channel on YouTube as well as it helps me keep doing what I do and making content and don’t worry there will still be plenty of content here on YouTube, just with even MORE over on Patreon ;) patreon.com/theavidassistant Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.4 - Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.7 Links referenced in video: Page Break Productions https://youtube.com/c/PageBreakProductions “The Treasurer” - final cut https://youtu.be/_bhAEvA_OuE 5 AWESOME colour workflows in Avid https://youtu.be/H7syglD94_s #avidmediacomposer #filmmaking #filmmakingtutorial #postproduction Music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound: https://www.bensound.com Chapters 00:00 - INTRO 01:02 - AutoSync in Bin 05:56 - Replace Edit Manual Sync 08:57 - Waveform Sync in timeline 13:00 - High Frame Rate - No sound 15:50 - General advice and notes 18:57 - Note on sharp sounds 19:47 - Using reduce and enlarge 20:40 - Retiming HFR clips 28:54 - Adding action markers 34:05 - Why this is good to lock down! 35:07 - OUTRO

Hey Everyone! Welcome to Part04 of our Assistant Editor Essential series. Here we are just going to go over a few tasks and responsibilities of the assistant and I'll share my thoughts on them. As always if you want more information on anything in the video please leave and comment I'll answer any questions as best I can. I've been Assisting on projects of all sizes for a number of years and can definitely speak to the requirements of the role. Huge thanks goes out to Page Break Productions for letting me use the footage to the short film "The Treasurer" for this course! You can check them out at the links below: Page Break Productions https://youtube.com/c/PageBreakProductions “The Treasurer” - final cut https://youtu.be/_bhAEvA_OuE ALSO!!! I finally started a Patreon page! Come check it out! Being a supporter on Patreon really helps the channel on YouTube as well as it helps me keep doing what I do and making content and don’t worry there will still be plenty of content here on YouTube, just with even MORE over on Patreon ;) patreon.com/theavidassistant Links mentioned in the video: Free Sound Effects https://www.freesoundeffects.com Freesound https://freesound.org Pro Sound Effects https://www.prosoundeffects.com BBC Sound Effects (NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE) https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video: MacBook Pro 2018 Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X MacOS 12.4 - Monterey Avid Media Composer 2022.7 As always music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound: https://www.bensound.com #avidmediacomposer #filmmakingtutorial #postproduction #theavidassistant Chapters 00:00 - INTRO 01:23 - Sorting wilds 02:14 - Prepping a Scene Bin 10:43 - Making Dailies 22:00 - Backup up the project 23:45 - Providing Technical support 25:21 - Sourcing SFX & Music 31:40 - My “Resources” drive 33:28 - Final thoughts 34:28 - OUTRO