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Overview of the Media Composer interface

Overview of the Media Composer interface - Media Composer Tutorial

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Overview of the Media Composer interface

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- [Instructor] When you get into Media Composer, there are four main areas of the interface that you'll want to be familiar with. Now, yes, there's a lot more to the application, but these are the core areas that you're going to be working with day in and day out. The first is this one here. This is the project window. Then we've got bins. Well, this is one bin, but you can have as many as you want. We've got the composer window, and down underneath it, we've got the timeline window. Now obviously, you can move these around and position them anywhere you want. I'm just showing them to you now in the default layout. The project window is really the heart of your project. I've actually got a series of different windows here inside of the project panel. Bins is just a list of the bins in your project, more on those in a moment. Volumes is, I suppose, for creating a particular kind of archive or a package of media. More about that perhaps in our advanced lessons. Settings is a full list…

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