From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

Using the exercise files - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2

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Using the exercise files

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- [Instructor] If you have downloaded the assets associated with this course, and you've unzipped the files, you're going to have eight folders containing assets to work with, and we have EditStock to thank for the fantastic media included with this course, to try out our techniques with. I encourage you to visit editstock.com, and explore the other projects they have with which you can hone your skills as an editor. On the LinkedIn Learning platform, as with other websites, we have a two gigabyte single file size limit. This means we can't have any single file larger than two gigabytes to download. But our assets are a lot larger than that, so to make it possible for you to download the files, I've divided the contents of our Avid Media Files folder between multiple, separate zips. In fact, of the eight folders that you will have downloaded, seven of them actually just contain Avid Media files. So here's how to use the downloaded assets, or at least where to place them on your computer. And by the by, I should mention, it makes absolutely no difference if you're on a Mac or a PC. Perhaps the only difference is that Windows machines show you the drive letter. So here, I've got my second drive on my system, which I've named Media, and the drive letter D is displayed. It's not too important which drive you use for your media, other than the fact that the speed of your drive is a factor when playing back video files. So, I'm going to go into my number one folder, and I'm going to take this Project Files folder, and drop that at the top of my D drive, in the root, and I'm going to do the same with this MC110 Assets folder. Ignore this Other Files folder. That's just a bunch of files I've been using to prepare this training. And ignore this Exercise Files folder, because that's actually this folder, with all of the downloaded assets. But the important folder we want to look at next is this one, Avid Media Files. And if you've opened and used Media Composer on your system already, you should find that you have an Avid Media Files folder waiting for you to use. If you don't have a folder here, you can just take this one straight out of the Avid 110 Assets 01 folder and drop it in. I've got a folder already, so I'll browse inside it. Here's an MXF sub-folder, and that folder is empty on this drive, on my machine. So, back in my downloaded assets, I'm going to browse inside. There's my MXF folder, and I have a numbered folder. Remember, you can have as many numbered folders as you like, inside that MXF folder in your Avid Media Files folder, and it's one way for you to arrange your media files to make them a little easier to locate and to stay organized with. So here, I'm going to take this 110 folder and drop it straight in. And then I'll navigate up, and look inside my number two folder, and here I have another 110 folder. There is a way both on Mac OS and Windows to merge the contents of folders, but I want to keep this as simple as possible, so I'm going to browse inside this 110 folder I've already copied. I'll browse inside the one I've downloaded. I'll press control-A or command-A, to select all, and drag from one to the other. And now, I'm just going to repeat this process with the other folders I have. I've got another 110 folder here in the number three download, so I'll select all, and drop that in. I also have a 111 folder, so I'll browse up, and I'll add that 111 folder to my system. Now let's browse up again. Here I've got another 111 folder, so again, I'll browse inside. Select, select all, drag from one to the other, and you can see what I'm really doing here is just re-merging these files that were originally together and were separated for the purposes of downloading. That's number five. Here's six, this is a 112 folder. So I'll navigate up and drag that over, as well. And number seven, that's also 112, so I'll browse inside, select all, drag from one to the other. And number eight is also 112, so I'll select all, and drag it over. So now you should have all of the Avid native files inside their numbered folders, which are inside the MXF folder, which is inside the Avid Media Files folder on the root of your drive. You should also have a Project Files folder, and an MC110 Assets folder. Media Composer 2020.4 introduced support for Mac OS Catalina, that's 10.15.4. This version of Mac OS does not allow files to be stored in the root of the system drive. That's the drive on your computer that the operating system is on. To accommodate the change, the Avid Media Files folder for both Mac OS and Windows is now stored inside the documents folder. If you're using Media Composer 2020, here are the locations that you should use. If you're using a separate drive for your media, you can still use the root of that drive. This limitation only applies to the system drive. And at this point, we can close our original Exercise Files folder, because we're ready to begin.

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