Media Composer 1
Bin Container, Composer Window, Timeline Window,
What are the 3 main windows of the Avid Interface
Double clicking the clip icon in your bin does this.
What is loads a clip into the source monitor.
Moving the source track to the second video track in your timeline is known as this.
What is patching?
This button removes material, leaving a gap in its space.
What is the Lift button?
In drag-and-drop editing, this is the default editing mode.
What is splice-in?
This happens when one effect is dragged on top of another effect.
What is the previous effect is deleted.
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 tool allows you to map buttons to your your interface.
What is the command pallet
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 are 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?