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Launch Avid Media Composer

Launch Avid Media Composer - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 101

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Launch Avid Media Composer

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- [Narrator] Here we are, we've got our exercise files setup and we're ready to launch Avid Media Composer. The first thing that you're going to find when you go into Media Composer is this Select Project dialogue and there aren't many options on here, but they're pretty important. First of all, you'll notice that I'm logged in here as Max Imjago, so the user is listed as Max Imjago and I can change my user profile here or I can create a new one or I can import one. Your user profile is really important because of a lot of the settings associated with the application are embedded inside of it. You can take your settings file with you on a USB stick or email it to yourself or use Dropbox or whatever you like and sit down at any media composer machine and carry on using it as if it were your own. For this reason, it's important that you do make sure you do have the right user profile selected when you're using the system and I'll talk a little bit more later about how to create one…

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