Adobe Premiere to Avid Course
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Adobe Premiere to Avid Course

Adobe Premiere to Avid Course

Price range: £799.00 through £1,499.00

This is a Unique Ability Course that Allows Adobe Premiere Editors to learn the new AVID Media Composer 2025 Software

Product Description

. Premiere → Avid mindset shift

  • What is fundamentally different between Premiere and Avid
  • Avid’s project/bin structure vs Premiere’s project/panel structure
  • Avid terminology:
    • Bins
    • Master Clips
    • Subclips
    • Sequences
    • Source/Record monitors
    • Tracks vs patching
    • Media Composer projects
  • How Avid approaches media management and editorial differently
  • Common frustrations for Premiere editors and how to overcome them

2. Interface & navigation

  • Avid Media Composer interface
  • Source/Record editing workflow
  • Bin layouts and customisation
  • Timeline navigation
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Full-screen playback
  • Essential preferences and settings
  • Saving workspaces/layouts

3. Importing & media management

This is one of the most important sections.

  • Linking vs transcoding
  • AMA/Source Browser workflows
  • Avid MediaFiles
  • MXF media
  • Import vs Link
  • Resolution and codec considerations
  • Frame rates and project formats
  • Relinking media
  • Media offline troubleshooting
  • Consolidate and Transcode
  • Managing external drives
  • Understanding where Avid media actually lives

4. Bins & organising a project

Translate familiar Premiere workflows into Avid:

  • Creating and organising bins
  • Bin views
  • Custom columns
  • Script/Frame view
  • Searching
  • Custom metadata
  • Subclips
  • Grouping and organising rushes

5. Core editing

  • Mark In/Out
  • Splice-in
  • Overwrite
  • Lift
  • Extract
  • Segment tools
  • Three-point editing
  • Drag-and-drop editing
  • Replace edits
  • Match frame
  • Find bin
  • Track selection
  • Track patching
  • Sync locks
  • Add edits

6. The Avid keyboard

  • Essential Avid default shortcuts
  • Customising the keyboard
  • Mapping Premiere-like shortcuts
  • Trim shortcuts
  • Navigation shortcuts
  • Marking shortcuts
  • Timeline editing shortcuts

“Convert your Premiere keyboard into an Avid keyboard.”

7. Audio editing

  • Track types
  • Audio patching
  • Track selection
  • Audio gain
  • Keyframes
  • Audio mixing
  • Audio Suite
  • Basic EQ/compression
  • Audio tracks and buses
  • Exporting audio
  • Preparing for Pro Tools

9. Effects & graphics

  • Effects interface
  • Effect controls
  • Keyframes
  • Transitions
  • Dissolves
  • Colour correction basics
  • Titles
  • Basic graphics
  • Adjustment/effect workflows
  • When to use Avid vs After Effects/other applications

And importantly:

“What you did with this in Premiere, here's how you'd normally do it in Avid.”

10. Professional finishing & delivery

  • Preparing a sequence for online
  • Picture lock
  • Handles
  • Audio turnovers
  • AAF exports
  • EDLs
  • Reference movies
  • Consolidating
  • Transcoding
  • Exporting masters
  • Broadcast delivery basics
  • Deliverables
  • Archiving

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DAY 1 10am - 4pm

10am - 10.30am

Lesson 1 - Workspace & Starting a Project in Avid 2020

Understand the Editing interface, the elements within it and how to customise your workspace as you need. Accessing and using different workspaces according to different tasks. Setting up your projects. Setting correct Sequence settings.

Lesson 2 - Importing Assets

Getting assets into Premiere, keeping an organised project panel; assembling assets in sequences. Working with the Media Browser

10.30am - 11am

Lesson 3 – Importing Graphics

Importing graphic files and settings.

11am - 11.30am Break

12.00 - 13.00pm

Lesson 4 - Assemble and Edit a Sequence

Common keyboard short-cuts and editing tools for building up frame by frame pictureperfect sequences.

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 - 15.00pm

Lesson 5 – Adding Transitions

Build transitions from scratch and apply and modify 'standard' transitions into yoursequences. Use the 'motion' effects to build 'Picture-in-Picture' (PiP) effects and apply and modify standards PiP effects to your timelines. Understanding edit handles and edit points.

15.00 - 16.00pm

Lesson 6 - Colour Corrections and Effects

Colour correction and colour grading are now essential parts of professional videoproduction. In this lesson we will learn the basics of colour correction in Premiere,understand the built-in graphs and how to use them, and use the basic tools to correctfootage for broadcast.

Day 2 10am – 4pm

10.00am - 11.00am

Lesson 7 - Audio in Premiere Pro 2020

Audio is more than 50% of great video. If you have an OK video production but greatsound people will stay with it, but if you have a wonderful video production but poor soundyou will lose your audience. In this lesson we will learn the audio tools (time-line andeffects), how to deal with audio problems.

Lesson 8 - Motion

Motion allows you to adjust position, size and rotation of clips, we will also look into basic key framing techniques.

12.00 - 1300

Lesson 9 - Titles

Creating basic titles and creating a roll and a crawl.

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 - 15.00

Lesson 10 - Managing your projects

Understanding how to manage your projects, hard drives and using the project manager.

15.00 - 16.00

Lesson 11 – Output Work

Output your work so that it can be seen and reviewed by your client and your colleagues. How to output for video, web etc.Understand Basic Video Codecs.

© 2020 Nigel G Honey – ABI

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