This Avid-accredited course is the first step in achieving confidence, creativity, and efficiency with Avid Media Composer 6, the non-linear film/video editing application used in most television productions. Along with its counterpart, MEDIA COMPOSER 6: PART 2 EFFECTS ESSENTIALS, (MC 110) this course provides the foundation for Media Composer User Certification.

The course leads you through the interface and basic editing techniques before moving on to trimming, fine-tuning the edit, adjusting audio, handling multicamera editing, adding transitions, adding titles, and outputting your finished project. The training is hands-on and features project-based lessons in which you work on real-world projects ranging from extreme sports and dazzling documentary footage to an episode of the television show Hell’s Kitchen.

Course participants have the option to sit the official Avid MC 101 online exam within course time.

Included in the course price is the textbook Media Composer 6: Part 1 – Editing Essentials
By Mary Plummer.

Course tutor, David Forsyth, is Australia’s most experienced Avid Certified Instructor and has been accredited as a Senior Instructor since 1997.

Prerequisites: Familiarity with the Macintosh operating system is essential.

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