Media Composer Interface
Bin Window, Composer Window, Timeline Window, Project Window
What are the 4 main windows of the Avid Interface
Private, Shared, and External are all ways to save these.
What are New Projects?
Moving the source track to the second video track in your timeline is known as this.
What is patching?
Pressing 1 of these 2 keys will engage audio scrubbing in your timeline.
What is the Caps Lock or Shift button?
In drag-and-drop editing, this is the default editing mode.
What is splice in?
This window serves as the central 'hub' of your project.
What is the Project Window.
There are 2 ways to bring footage into the Media Composer. You can use the Source Browser to either import footage, converting it to an Avid Media File, or by doing this.
What is linking?
By opening the audio control panel and clicking on the waveform button enables this.
What is displaying audio waveforms in your timeline?
This button is pressed to only hear the audio on the selected track.
What is the solo button?
The Add Edit tool gives the editor this option.
What is add cuts/splices into a segment?
This happens when one is dragged into another.
What is combining bins?
These keys allow you to play, pause, and rewind your video. Conveniently the three are located right next to each other on the keyboard.
What are the J-K-L keys?
This happens when you use the key combination Command+Option+L/K
What is reduce/increase the size of your waveforms in your timeline?
What is the length of a transition?
The type of trim that shortens or lengthens a clip in the timeline while shifing all the other downstream material.
What is the Ripple Trim?
This is what is saved during Autosave.
What are bins?
Clips can be loaded into the source monitor by clicking and dragging, or by doing this.
What is double clicking on the source footage in the bin?
This happens when a video clip is editing in-between 2 clips and the subsequent clips move down the timeline.
What is splice-in?
These tools allow you to freely slide clips up and down the timeline. The yellow one will move clips around, the red one will delete sections of a clip.
What are the Overwrite and Splice Segment Tools?
The term for the excess video in a master clip that is needed to perform trims and adding transition effects.
What is handle?
Frame view, script view, and text view are the three ways to view this.
What is ways to view media in your bin?
This is what displays in your monitor when the media drive containing the linked original footage is removed.
What is Media Offline?
This happens when the video clip does not match the coinciding audio clip.
What is breaking sync?
This combination of keys will adjust the size of your waveforms in your timeline.
What is Option + Cmd + L/K?
The M , . keys.
What are the trim keyboard shortcuts?