Description
1. 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
