#Avid media composer setup install#
#Avid media composer setup pro#

If you just discovered what a subclip is because of me, remember this moment. If you add Add Option Key/Add Alt Key to your c key, you no longer have to hold option/alt to make a subclip. What is this key going to do?' By default, Option/Alt+c creates a subclip. I bet there's some percentage reading this saying, 'But 'c' doesn't do anything. These already have default keys but I like these better because the shift key is closer than the CNTL/CMD key and the key to show entire sequence is next to less detail and more detail. Command: Less detail, more detail and show entire sequence Command: Step In and Step OutДЄn easy way to remember, say, 'I'm going in-z' and 'exit.' You'll also laugh each time you do this. Rewind and fast forward - a/s and up/down arrowsДЄs a lefty, I find it very useful for this to be on the up/down arrows so I can keep one hand on the mouse. You can also link your timeline views to them as well. It doesn't have to be these keys but I like them all in a row. Command: Source/Record Editing, Color Correction and Effects Editing workspaces You have to have a quick way to turn this on and off. I strongly recommend not changing the 'standard' settings, j, k, l, i, o, z, x, v and b, just in case another editor comes in and starts messing around. KeyboardД®veryone has their own favorite settings for this. Here you can set the brightness of the application, the highlight color in the timeline, default font size and more. Set your Default Starting TC (Timecode) here. No matter how much screen real estate you have, this is a waste of a space being active. Since you're here, if you use Markers (previously Locators), go under the FF/Rew tab and check Stop at Markers. It may save a fraction of a second but those add up over time. If you check Activate Record Monitor After Edit you'll be able to keep on editing in your timeline. The source monitor will still be active after making this edit. Let's say you select an in/out in the source monitor, then Overwrite edited it in your timeline. Under the Edit tab, uncheck Auto-create New Tracks and Auto-enable Source Tracks.Д¬heck Activate Record Monitor After Edit. I hope you can find something useful below if you are new to Avid or a seasoned editor. The following is a list of the eight standard settings that I think must be changed off default. Say what you want about Avid, but the customizability of it is second to none. Once I launched Avid, I went right to work changing all the default settings.

#Avid media composer setup pro#

I jumped from version 5.0.3 to 6.5.2 and I went from a HP Z400 Windows desktop computer to a MacBook Pro laptop.

#Avid media composer setup install#

Then it all came to a screeching halt.ДЄ career, version and platform change all at once caused me to have to install Avid from scratch on a new system without my beloved settings. I regularly edited faster than I could think. I knew Avid inside and out after four years of tweaking, refining and using my settings daily. The bins will open in the target window.Recently I found out that I took my Avid Media Composer settings for advantage. With one bin open, drag the icon of the closed bin(s) from the Project window to open the bin window. How do you combine one open bin with another open bin? If you're already in Media Composer, click the Settings tab at the top of the Project window, and then click the user name drop down menu and select Import User Profile. Closing it will prompt a save.Д¬lick on the drop down menu where the user's name is displayed, select Import User Profile, and navigate to the one you saved on the USB.

Drag and settings you want to save off into that windows. User: User settings are specific to a particular editor.ДЄlso, how do you save keyboard in Avid? Re: Keyboard Settings When in setting view, go to file menu and select 'New Settings File'. Site settings are stored in a separate Settings folder in the root folder of the Avid editing application (covered in the вЂњ Location of Commonly Used Settings FilesвЂќ portion of this document).

Just so, where are avid user settings stored? All your Media composer settings and folders, including the attic and the user settings, are located in a folder named Avid Media Composer and that one is located into your shared documents folder.