From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Recap of the Avid Media Composer interface - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Start my 1-month free trial

Recap of the Avid Media Composer interface

- [Instructor] For most of this course, we'll be focusing on the usual three main areas of the Media Composer interface. That's the bin container window, the composer window, and the timeline window. And there will be some additional windows for us to work with too. Under the Tools menu, we'll be looking at the audio tool for checking levels. We'll be looking at the audio mixer for adjusting audio levels. We'll also be looking at the audio EQ tool to change audio level at different frequencies. And we'll be looking at our now familiar timecode window and using it to help us navigate our sequences. We'll be using timecode in pretty advanced ways in this course. Most of the time, I'll be leaving these tools floating on screen so they're front and center. But if I just bring up the audio mixer again, keep your eyes open for these name badge tabs on the left edge of these windows. These mean that you can dock the window, as you would any other window in the interface. So here, for example, I can introduce this as a new window and keep the audio mixer embedded in the interface. You can play with this quite freely because if, at any time, you realize that you've just messed up the interface and it's not looking like it's useful anymore, you can click to reselect the workspace and it'll be restored to the last saved version. Just also, as a brief reminder, remember that options are often repeated in the right click contextual menus, the application menus, and the fast menus. A good example is here, in the bin. I can right click and I have options like new sequence. Or, I can click the fast menu and, there again, we've got the new sequence option. In fact, you'll notice that all of these options are repeated. If it seems that I'm using a workflow you're not familiar with to achieve something you are familiar with, it's probably just that I'm using a repeated option. If the option has the same name, it's almost certainly the same outcome, regardless of the location in the interface.

Contents