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If you are an Avid Media Composer user, you've probably realized that the Marquee Title tool is extremely powerful.

While many parts of the software are extremely intuitive, there are some things that make your head spin.  One of those things, is the ability to view keyframes when animating lights.

Check out this short tutorial on how to the view the keyframe graph for light objects within the Avid Marquee title tool.

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Check out this short Avid Media Composer tutorial that has been updated from my previous multi-camera tutorial.


The latest version of Avid Media Composer 6.0 has 99 undos.  However, there are a couple of scenarios that may require an additional steps to recover from a bad situation.

  • If you close your project, the undo list will reset.
  • If you accidentally delete a sequence from a bin, you cannot undo that function.
  • If an Avid Media Composer bin becomes corrupted, the undo command won't help out.

Here's a short Media Composer tutorial that show how to recover a bin from an earlier point in time.

Before watching this tutorial keeps the following in mind:

There are many different version's of Avid Media Composer out there.  The latest version is 6.01.  Unfortunately, the location of the Avid Attic has changed over time. 

There directory location is different locations for PC and MAC.

As of today (Media Composer 6.01) the Avid Attic is located at:

  • On a MAC:  Internal HD / Shared / AvidMediaComposer / Avid Attic
  • On a PC: C:/ Users / Public / Documents / Avid Media Composer / Avid Attic

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Learn how to create 3D objects in a true 3D environment using Avid Media Composer's Marquee Software.

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With the introduction of Avid Media Composer 6, we'll be hard at work redoing many of our popular tutorials.

Check out this short tutorial on creating the Pleasantville effect using the new Media Composer 6 interface.
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