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Avid Video Editing Tips

Thursday, November 29th, 2012 | Posted By Natalie Mueller | 2 Comments

As regular editing gurus, we rolled out a series of videos sharing tips and tricks for the Avid Media Composer editing system. The series of ten episodes aired on our very own website this past spring and was hosted by none other than SolidLine's Director of Post Production, 'Sir' Michael Kromm.


AVID Tip #1: How To Create A Custom Keyboard

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

We’re editing a lot of projects at once here at SolidLine, which means organization is key. Our “Behind The SolidLine” series will be focusing on the Avid system over the next few weeks, with Director of Post Production Michael Kromm sharing some of his tips when it comes to making your video editing experience as [...]

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AVID Tip #2: Organizing Your Bins

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

SolidLine Media’ director of post-production Michael Kromm is back for another weekly edition of “Behind The SolidLine.” We continue our series of Avid video editing tips, and we’re still doing some housekeeping. Before you get too far into any project, you’ll want to make sure you keep your bins organized. Here are some tips from [...]

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AVID Tip #3: Interview Editing Using Waveforms

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

It’s Avid Video Editing Tip Tuesday! We’re posting a bit late in the day today, because we got sidetracked scrubbing through so many interviews. If only somebody would have told us an easi……oh, right. Director of Post Production Michael Kromm is back with his third tip that will save you some time when you get [...]

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AVID Tip #4: Duplicating Sequences

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

SolidLine Media Director of Post Production Michael Kromm is back with his fourth Avid video editing tip. This week, he’s talking about the value in duplicating sequences in your project. In particular, how it can keep you organized when going through multiple revisions with clients and producers. This way, you can easily access previous versions [...]

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AVID Tip #5: Using Indicators to track changes and keep order

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

It’s Avid Tip Tuesday! Solidline Media Director of Post Production Michael Kromm is back with another video editing tip for those of you who use Avid. Today, he’s talking about the use of “indicators,” and how these relatively simple dots can really streamline your high definition video production project. As always, if you have a [...]

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AVID Tip #6: Organizing Layers On The Timeline

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

It’s Avid video editing Tip Tuesday! Our Director of Post Production Michael Kromm is back with another suggestion that should make your next video editing project a much more enjoyable experience. This week, he’s talking about labeling the different layers on your timeline – both how to do it, and why it’s important to keep [...]

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AVID Tip #7: Selecting All Tracks

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

It’s Avid video editing Tip Tuesday! This week, SolidLine Media Director of Post Production Michael Kromm tells you about a keyboard shortcut to select, or deselect, all tracks in your timeline. If you’ve been spending time clicking on each individual track on a HUGE project, this shortcut will change your life. Check out the video [...]

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AVID Tip #8: Using Match Frame

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

It’s Avid Video Editing Tip Tuesday! If you are a new user to the Avid, or video editing in general, this one is a MUST learn. Match Frame allows you to jump from the exact frame the cursor is on in your timeline, to that exact same point in the clip up in your composer [...]

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AVID Tip #9: Opening Bins From Another Project

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

It’s Avid Video Editing Tip Tuesday! Have you ever found yourself editing a project and wishing you could pull some music or sound effects from a previous project? Then you find yourself re-importing all of this media you spent time importing before? Well, this week’s tip should help make sure that doesn’t happen anymore. SolidLine [...]

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AVID Tip #10: Watching the entire sequence

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 | Posted By webauthor | Comments Off

So you’ve cut together a bunch of scenes. They look great on their own, so you assemble them all together. Time to export and call it a day, right? Wrong. Solidline Media Director of Post Production Michael Kromm is here to tell us how important it is to watch your entire sequence before you think [...]

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