Learn Avid Media Composer Fast - Tutorial 3 Refining The Drama in Trim Mode

[@SilentNukeShot]

Please make more avid tutorials, your style of teaching is very easy to follow and is genuinely helpful.

[@iankillick2586]

Thank you

[@marioalfonso1669]

I'm a video editor for 10+ years in advertising making the switch from Premiere to AVID for long format editing. I've been watching a lot of tutorials and you're the only one that teaches it in the way a creative editor workflow would go and love the film making emotion tips!! Most other tutorials get bogged down in the minutia of submenus and loose the creative flow or just skip how to do key steps. Thank you and please make more!!

[@iankillick2586]

Thank you Mario

[@suryanmaurya]

Thanks a lot for this video. I didn't know about this feature in Avid. Please keep making more videos. Your method of explaining things is so good.

[@marklholloway]

This is incredible and so valuable. First one of your tutorials I’ve watched and will continue watching more. Liked and subscribed ❤ Please make more!

[@maggiemei7774]

This is awesome! I am an editor making my way back from Premiere to Avid, thank you so much for reviving my memory of trim mode. 😊

[@kavindavid4261]

Do more tutorials on avid, It will help lot of people like me, I need to Thank you tube for recommending this channel...Such a clear and proper Explaination..❤️Love from INDIA😇

[@iankillick2586]

Thank you Kavin. More on the way

[@CapitalFProductions]

These are very helpful, thank you! My only confusion is with the audio in these bits of footage. I'm assuming the audio feed went directly into the camera files but I often receive audio files separately and need to be synced. I'm a n00b with Avid so bridging that gap is what I'm not sure of yet as many tutorials seem to skip that step

[@leoherve8706]

I love this tutorial series on AVID, it helps me a lot ! But i've got one question, in Trim mode is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between overwrite trim and ripple trim ?

[@Flightsimmovies]

the best avid tutorial on the youtube!

[@Left_it]

Fantastic thanks 👍🏻

[@1428MediaInc]

I needed this video for a long time my friend. thanks a lot for this lesson!

[@iankillick2586]

No problem. Next part coming soon

[@josuefilms]

this is amazing. I would happily pay for more of this.

[@iankillick2586]

Thank you very much for the feedback

[@mihirghare9833]

Watched a lot of videos but genuinely this was the first one that made basic concepts clear and easier for me. Would love to see advanced tutorials from you too! Subscribed.

[@iankillick2586]

Thank you Mihir

[@gabbydsouza239]

When you were using P to trim the outcoming edit, you said you can use L for adding frames in real time and J to rewind them, but then when you were using ] to trim the incoming edit you used J to add time to the beginning. Could you explain the JKL keys a bit more? Thanks!

[@TheLightedSky2112]

He mentions 3 types of trim keys, P, left bracket, right bracket. P for left side of selected trim and right bracket for right side of selected trim. What does left bracket in trim mode do?

[@mikegutridge284]

Hi. Love your tutorials, they are extremely helpful. Quick question: is the Avid Keyboard (and shortcuts) the same in America as it is in the UK?

[@brandonworkman1454]

Is Composer Settings now available on MC1st? I don't see it where you show it.

[@TheMegaMammoth]

Insanely helpful, thank you

[@iankillick2586]

Thank you Joel

[@rhys992]

Not sure if I've missed a step here. When I'm practicing using top and tail editing, I've mapped them to my keyboard and whenever I've picked the area I want to trim, I click on either top or tail (whatever one I need at the time) and it seems to delete everything from the left or everything to the right? It doesn't seem to be set up to only trim to the end of that specific shot/clip like I see on yours. Its trimming my whole sequence to the left and right of my position indicator. Am I missing a step or do I need to change something in my settings?

[@Tayylormayy]

It might have somthing to do with the sync locks

[@RenewedMindMovement]

Your question was a year ago...so I'm sure you figured it out. But, for me, I am just getting to this problem right now. I have identified the solution for me at least. If your timeline has multiple tracks that are selected and do not have the same cut point, then the top/tail does not know what to identify as the point where the top or tail ends, so it deletes all before or after the selected point. So, in this case, you have to only select the track which you want to make your reference point for the top or tail to cut to and turn the sync lock on before you use top or tail.

[@BenAllanCM]

Hmm interesting I always use trim top and tail. But i always have to select the clip first. How are you doing it?

[@visualsound2489]

Ok but where is the command to make a Cut at the playhead. Or where can I assign it too

[@collinvanderwerf3932]

Hi when i try to use the top/tail tools it gets rid of absolutely everything after the time marker rather than just the top/tail of the clip. If anyone could let me know what i'm doing wrong I would be super appreciative.

[@jaroslavjanes1990]

I was also editing my keyboard and what happened? The whole app crashed... and not just once

[@nakash4266]

Composer settings options invisible?

[@markchesak3982]

Ian's demo maps to more of a Premiere Pro model with Top and Tail added to the Q W keys for example. I tend to go with the Avid lasso technique to get into trim, starting with a roll selection, then click left or right on the trim monitors to switch over to a left or right ripple, then back to roll for an overlap edit, (maybe) and then I bail out via escape or by tapping the time-code bar. I have a demo that shows more of the lasso approach. Option lasso one cut within the Media Composer tracks, or Command lasso in Premiere for dynamic trimming. FYI! kzbin.info/www/bejne/imjGYqqQfMSekJIsi=LgZf3Ms_V6BwXjEz

[@PapitaManiToston]

THANK YOU