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Video Post Tips Weekly provides a new, targeted tip every Wednesday, focusing on specific tools and techniques in platforms such as Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, and Avid Media Composer. Future episodes will cover topics such as mask tracking and secondary color correction and, in most cases, will explore the same technique in more than one type of software. Ashley Kennedy shows you the right way to approach post-production tasks, but also offers her own advice and quick-and-dirty workarounds for when you have to make edits and corrections fast.

Do you want to make your video footage look more vibrant, more accurate, or better fit the mood and themes of your project? Color correction helps you accomplish all these goals and more. In this introductory course, staff author Ashley Kennedy explains the concepts behind color correction and color grading, and guides editors through the process of correcting contrast, color balance, and hue/saturation.

In this installment of DaVinci Resolve Guru, colorist Patrick Inhofer guides you through the process of moving your timelines into DaVinci Resolve from Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, and Avid Media Composer.

In Sibelius 6 Essential Training, author Jenny Amaya covers the ins and outs of creating, arranging, and publishing professional-looking scores using Avid's popular music notation software. Beginning with the basics of score creation and note entry, the course explains how to interface with a MIDI keyboard; edit note durations and pitches; and incorporate lyrics, tempo markings, and other text elements. Also included are tutorials on formatting your score and dynamic parts. Exercise files accompany the course.

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Adobe Edge Animate offers a new way of creating rich and interactive animated content for websites, mobile apps, and ebooks. Like to code? You can access the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that powers your compositions from the Edge Code interface. If you're not an avid programmer, you can use Edge Animate's more design-friendly features to build the same graphics without code.

A rewarding photographic project involves shooting an essay that tells the story of a family member in a certain place and time: the brother with an interesting job or hobby, the grandparent with a lifetime of stories and experiences, or the parent you finally got to know as an adult.

Media Composer 8. 6 Essential Training is a two-part, start-to-finish training series that will get users up to speed with the Media Composer environment and the basics of nonlinear video editing.

Sibelius is a popular software program from Avid that's intended for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation.