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Using colors to keep your projects and elements organized

Using colors to keep your projects and elements organized

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Using colors to keep your projects and elements organized

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- [Instructor] In past lessons, we've learned how to set up organized bins, folders, and setup clean timelines. Now, I'd like to demonstrate how I and my assistant use colors to keep the progress of our projects organized. As well as assign tasks to ensure that no changes fall through the cracks. Because even small changes that are missed can lead to setbacks, issues with producers, and ultimately even missed deadlines. In this lesson, I'll demo how I use color organization in Avid, although this thought process can be applied to just about any NLE. I'll show us examples how I and my team track music changes, visual effects revisions, and then how we track the progress of our cuts themselves. And then lastly I'll also show you how we use colors to delineate where changes and revisions need to happen based on specific team members. So we're here in this sample timeline, and this isn't a real edit, I'm just using…

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