Edit Faster: 3 Timeline Features - Avid Media Composer Tutorial

Let's take a look at three Avid Media Composer timeline features that help me every day to edit faster: Top and Tail, Extend and Reverse Matchframe. All functions can be mapped to your keyboard!

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[TommySidorski]

Thank You! For making these tutorials, there are barely any out in the wild for media composer. You are a big help.

[supershaneishere]

These are such a massive help. Also I like that you don't have ten minutes of waffle about the origins of AVID at the beginning. Thanks.

[jorgelopez]

Awesome, I found this feature in Edius while editing news and fell in love with it. Perfect for cutting news footage fast.

[vid]

Love how well you light the shot of yourself when you're talking

[claudiabTV]

Great tips, thank you! Always wondered what those functions did but never got around to researching them - will try them now, all clicks saved are priceless! ❤

[cholocco]

These videos are seriously fantastic. Thanks for the helpful advice.

[YvoVanScowen]

You are doing a great job! Thank you for the really helpful tutorials. 🙏

[josephcampbell]

Interesting that you used 'mark clip' to set the out-point (at 0:58). That's clever (....instead of moving your playhead to the last frame of the clip, which I would have done). Thanks!

[Jyotirmayshuva]

This video is so much helpful just mapped down the keyboard shortcut!

[leeschloss]

Regarding the 3rd tip (reverse match frame), something similar is "dupe detection", which is a very visual way of seeing what's been used.

[hamzashiban]

you're awesome! thanks Hans for all of your video tutorials, they are helping me as someone who is switching from Davinci and premiere to Avid especially as someone who is working towards becoming an assistant editor and hopefully an editor one day. It would be very helpful to have a video about shortcuts in Avid! keep up the good work

[knejmann]

Reverse Match frame also works from the timeline to a sequence loaded as source. Great if you've collected all shots from one bin into a long source sequence that you've loaded into source.

[charles_bukowski]

Grüße aus Deutschland, sofern Du noch in LA bist...Danke für Deine sehr hilfreichen Tipps! Chris

[arvvee]

Great vid! I didn't know about Reverse Match Frame. You explained how it works from the Preview Window, but what does if you click it from the Timeline?

[juanlagos]

your tips are excellent. missing like using things like fill to fit among others. regards

[prof.simonwright]

Thank you! Great tutorials... advanced trimming tutorial witth many tracks would be nice. :-)

[SliwkaProductions]

Great tips 😎 Im starting with Avid and your channel helps me a lot 😀 BTW - what computer are you using right now for editing?

[fvl]

Great video! Would there be a way to extend a clip (making it longer) and rippling the clips behind it without going to the ripple mode?

[channaveerkerimath]

dude..I'm waiting for the tutorial on work or importing of png videos and photos 🤩😊

[equipmentnazo]

Hello Mr Hans, I'm a new subscriber. Which avid media composer do you use? The free version or the pro version?