Avid Fundamentals 1 Study Guide Prepared by Xu Jiao

Chapter 1:
1. Understand the Select Project Window
The Buttons and Interface: Private, Shared, External Differences / Folder Browse
Button / Etc.
2. Differences between Composer (Displays & Tools): differences between source
monitor and record monitor
Timeline: Different tracks: 64 tracks of audio and 24 tracks of video in total
Track Selector Columns / Source & Record Track Buttons / Bin Container
Windows (how to open & manage Bins)
3. Fast Menu Button & Appearance
4. Workspace Toolbar
5. Bin layouts and buttons: how to favorite a bin file and unfavorite
Text view ~ Columns
Frame View ~ Changing Frame Sizes & Tidying it up
Script View
6. Creating a New User Profile / Changing User profiles
7. How to Customize a workspace / Change interface colors
8. Command Palette: Mapping your buttons:
Button to Button / Active Palette / Menu to Button
9. Remapping Buttons & Keys on Keyboard through Command Palette
10. Auto save options: where to adjust / change it
11. Definition of Clips; Sequence; Bin; Timeline; Etc.

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Chapter 2
1. Create Project options:
A project’s format is a combination of its frame size and frame rate.
2. A new project folder includes a project file (avp.); a project setting file (.xml) and
a bin file (.avb)
3. Fast Menu button to use a bin
4. Memorize the appearance & Function of Asset Type Buttons (P.43)
5. Linking & Importing clips: how to do it / differences between link and import /
what’s the icon for linked master clip / import settings & buttons
6. Source Browser Interface (Function and Appearance): Navigation Pane &
Buttons / File Folder content pane / Directory path / Media folder view button /
Collapse Expand button
7. Source Browser: How to open it
8. Difference between Camera & Avid Native media
9. Linking / Importing Audio media
10. What does J-K-L do and what does each button look like? (P.56)
11. Audio Mixer tool
12. What buttons for marking clips look & do (p.59)
13. Saving a single bin / all bins in project (p.61)
14. Right-click a selected group of bins to open, close, or delete them as a group.
15. Selecting the tabbed bins: click the tab or from the drop-down menu

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Chapter 3:
1. Definition of a rough cut / radio edit
2. How to create a sequence / add new video or audio tracks / patch tracks
3. Waveform button location / appearance / function
(Displaying Waveforms on audio track)
4. Track Control Panel (What it holds & how to open / close) / Disclosure Triangle
5. How to enlarge / shrink Waveforms
6. Source / Record Button: Appearance & Function
7. Splice-In buttons: appearance & function: pushes everything down / V key
8. Overwrite buttons: appearance & function: overwrites on top of video track / B
Key
9. Three Point editing: Marking in / out on source clip and placing the position
indicator on timeline where you want to cut in / Marking in or out on timeline
where you want the clip starts / ends
10. What is the Filler?
11. Lift button: Appearance & Function: replaces lifted segment with filler / Z key
12. Extract Button: Appearance & Function: closes the gap where lifted segment
was (X key)
13. Timecode Display
14. Go to next event / previous event buttons: Appearance & Function
15. How to snap position indicator to head / tail frame of an edit point (Know the
differences between head and tail)

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Chapter 4:
1. Understand Segment Mode (Buttons appearance / Functions)
2. Color Coded Tools:
Red = Stop (Stop sign) / Yellow = Moving (Caution Sign) [p.101]
3. Understand how Smart Tool works
Red: top half of the track
Yellow: bottom half of the track
4. Link Selection Toggle / Sync Locks
5. How to recognize Broken Sync (p.105)
6. Wireframe Dragging / Display During segment Drag:
7. Four Frame Display / Position Bar / None
8. Audio Tool: audio should bounce between -20dB & -8dB
9. Audio Fader tools: Appearance / Function
10. Clip Gain (Audio Mixer): use the mini fader / adjust the audio level
11. Difference between Solo & Mute in timeline audio tracks
12. Digital Audio Scrub: how to use it via keyboard / toggle button

Chapter 5:
1. Link Selection Toggle Button
2. Select left / Select Right / Select in / out Buttons
3. Video Monitor Button
4. Add Edit Button
5. Remove Match Frame Edit
6. Ripple Trim Icon & Overwrite Trim Icon: Appearance & Function
7. A Side (outgoing shot) vs B Side (incoming shot) Trims
8. Dual Roller Trim Icon / Function
9. Sync Locks: gray trim rollers
10. Trim Mode Toggle Button / How to enter Trim Mode
11. Trim Buttons appearance / functions [p.141]
12. Play Loop Button
13. Trimming with Keyboard:
P = A Side, [ = Dual Side,] = B Side [p.143]
14. Go to previous Trim / Go to next Trim Buttons
15. Scrubbing Audio while Trimming
16. Duplicating Sequences / Clips
17. How to create a cutaway: using drag and drop – use lift / overwrite segment
mode; using buttons – use overwrite and track selectors with two marks on
record side and one mark on source side
Disable the source audio track selectors to create a picture cutaway
18. How to delete the clip gain

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Chapter 6:
1. Quick Transition Button: Know the Interface & what each option does [p.158]
2. Remove Effect Button
3. Transition Manipulation Tool Button: must be enabled before you can drag within
a transition effect in the Timeline to change its duration or position
4. Effect Palette: how to open it
5. How to go to Effect Mode / the interface: Effect review monitor
6. Audio Crossfades
Dialogue edits: one to four frames (short dissolves)
Music : one second or more (long dissolves)
Chapter 7:
1. Three types of Visual Effects: Know the differences between Transition /
Segment / Motion Effects
2. Tracking Window: Stabilizing effect (Include Parameters)
3. Effect Editor window (Especially the buttons on the right side) [P.186 for ex.]
4. Keyframes & Keyframing: Anytime you directly manipulate the image, Media
Composer adds a keyframe.
5. Resize: fixed aspect checkbox (keeps aspect ratio the same as scale up or
down)
6. Reduce button in the effect review monitor
7. Differences between HSL / Curve settings

Chapter 8:
1. Auto Nesting (Effect mode & Effect Editing)
2. Auto nesting in Timeline: Step In & Out Buttons
3. Simple & Expanded Nesting view: Differences and Function / the order of nested
effects

Chapter 9:

1. Motion Effects / Freeze Frames / Time warp Effects: Function and Differences
2. Both fields/ Interpolated fields/ Duplicated Fields/ VTR Style: Function and
Differences / Motion Effect Segment Icons
3. Motion Effect Editor Button

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Chapter 10:
1. Avid Titler+ Button / Interface: Drop Down / Background / Font Attributes / Text &
Shape Tool / Send Forward & Back buttons

Chapter 11:
1. How to Export a Video Sequence
2. Export Settings: Buttons / Interface / How to export to Quicktime format
3. Difference between Legal & Full Range

Chapter 12:
4. Difference between Linking & Importing
5. Mxf Media files: FMID / MMOB
6. How to create Avid media: Import / Consolidate / Transcode / Render / Mixdown
/ Capture from Tape
7. Media file directory locations
8. “Reveal File” option
9. Media offline reasons / How to rebuild media library after media goes offline
10. Difference between Relink & Relink to File / How to Relink Files
11. Recovering Lost Work
12. Using Media tool to delete