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Getting decent screenshots of web pages and other computer windows can be a hassle, and can require a lot of expensive hardware to do the scan conversion. But it doesn't have to. What if it could look better and be easy?
It can!

Panning and Scanning a Faked web page

Finally!
One place we can point to with the definitive
answers to how you need to render an After Effects
animation for import into Avid.
(many MB in examples too!)

The rules for AE rendering for Avid

MP3s aren't just being used my college kids as they steal music.
No, its often the easiest way and quickest way to get your project's audio from one side of the world to the other. But pre-Media Composer 10 / XPress 4 can't import MP3, so here's what we do.

Converting MP3s for (Mac-based) Avid import

There has been discussion in the past on Avid-L
about the merits and pitfalls of archiving media to DLT or other medium.
I've always chimed into suggest timecoded tape
as a future-proof/platform-proof archive method.

Here's what I mean.

Archiving clips to Video Tape

Relink is a mysterious command, its power often misunderstood.
Here you'll find a step-by-step show of how to use
Relink to automatically replace graphics that needed
to be revised.

Using Relink to Replace clips

I was once asked by an assistant how to fix some mis-named tapes.
Its a common question, here's the answer.

Modifying source names in Avid

Do you have the tape and tutorial from MC5.x? It was a great tutorial, I always like it better than the new ones that started coming out with MC6.0.

Here you'll find my re-written Rain Forest tutorial, with new screenshots and updated instructions that you can use with MC7.x and that 5.x tutorial tape.

RainForestTutorial.pdf

or, in Word format... RainForestTutorial.doc

Did you attend one of Avid's Master Editor Workshops?
Do you want to email that one person, that one you sat next to most mornings? What? You remember his/her face, but you can't remember his/her name?
You're in luck.

Master Editor Email by Face

Some designer friends in LA were trying go get some type animations into an Avid Media Composer. I explained to them exactly what to do, they in turn explained to their editor. He didn't get it. So I made this tutorial.
This tutorial is also available on the WWUG.

AE and Matte Keys in Avid

Do you combine the Wonder Twin powers of Avid and Adobe After Effects? I often do. Before we started Automatic Duck I wrote an article for the WWUG.

AE and Avid, Strategic Lessons for Success

Here's a good one. Ever have an After Effects render going on a machine down the hall while you're busy editing? You're concentrating so hard on your edit that you don't realize your render is finished 'til an hour later. Such wasted time!
How about getting paged by your mac when its finished rendering?

PageWhenRenderDone!

The original tutorial on my site, this OMF how-to has been very popular. I haven't updated it recently, and I still intend to get it up-to-date, but until then, it still provides users good insight into how to get your audio from your Avid into AudioVision or ProTools.

OMF