Another Avid Basics video here today, discussing the effects work in Avid Media Composer and how to get started with it. This covers everything where to find effects, placing them on the timeline, a demo of the most common effects (3D Warp, Animatte, Timewarp, Avid Pan and Zoom), nesting, speed manipulation and some tips and advice as we go !

Useful links from the video:

AE105 – Quality Turnover
https://youtu.be/b4bHOuO52Lc

Avid's proxy workflow
https://youtu.be/fbzMV22c9jc

How to Do 5 Awesome FX Without Plugins
https://youtu.be/v84o9iuAcrc

Motion VFX
https://www.motionvfx.com

The Treasurer Short film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bhAEvA_OuE&t=7s&pp=ygUYdGhlIHRyZWFzdXJlciBwYWdlIGJyZWFr

Specifications of the Avid system at the time this video was recorded:
MacBookPro 16” 2023
M2 Max / 96GB Unified Memory / 38 Core GPU
MacOS 13.4 – Ventura
Avid Media Composer 2023.3.1

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Chapters

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:03:48 – Pre-applied effects
00:07:12 – NOTE – FX needed in Avid
00:09:55 – The effect palette
00:11:11 – 3D Warp and Effects Editor
00:30:47 – Animation
00:43:08 – NOTE – Save effect presets
00:44:17 – Avid panning and zooming
00:51:55 – Time skew
00:57:32 – Follow in Avid
01:08:06 – Nesting effects
01:13:03 – A message for viewers
01:14:12 – Outro

Music from my intro/outro is by the incredibly talented Bensound:
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