Avid Media Composer Advanced Workshop 2-day

DAY 1: Multicam, ScriptSync & Advanced Editing Tools

Goal: Learn to manage complex timelines, sync multi-camera interviews, and speed up edits

using real-world Avid techniques.

✅ Creating Multicam sequences: syncing with timecode and waveform

✅ Multicam editing: switching angles, refining edits, and collapsing sequences

✅ ScriptSync overview: importing transcripts and syncing dialogue to script

✅ Subclip and group clip management for long interviews

✅ Using locators, color labels, and markers for editor-producer workflows

✅ Advanced trim mode: slipping, sliding, and dynamic trimming

✅ Using the Find tool, PhraseFind, and custom metadata to locate footage quickly

✅ Review and export for feedback using AAFs and review-friendly formats

📂 Assignment: Build and edit a 2-camera interview with ScriptSync and multicam

cutdowns

DAY 2: Collaboration, Audio Mixing & Project Optimization

Goal: Explore tools that make Avid a broadcast standard—collaboration, automation, and

audio mastery.

✅ Introduction to Avid’s shared project environment: working across teams

✅ Media Management: relinking, consolidating, transcoding, and exporting AAFs

✅ Audio editing: EQ, compression, pan automation, keyframing, and submixes

✅ Using the Audio Ducking tool for voice/music balancing

✅ Title Tool vs. New Titler+

✅ Understanding the Avid MediaFiles folder and troubleshooting offline media

✅ Exporting for broadcast, OTT, and archive: codecs, MXF, and ProRes

✅ Overview of shared storage: Unity, Nexis, NAS vs. DAS in post-production

✅ Final polish: using RTAS effects, audio mixing, and color correction basics

📂 Final Project: Edit a 2-minute multicam interview scene with full audio mix, script sync,

and layered effects for delivery

Course Code - AV-L2
Prerequisite: Completion of the Beginner Workshop (AV-L1) or equivalent editing experience. & knowledge