Avid Microcredentials (AVID)

This microcredential provides the training needed to enter the booming film and television industry as an Avid ingest operator. This skillset prepares you for the first step towards achieving more senior positions, such as an assistant editor, within Ontario.

• properly identify, troubleshoot and ingest source media into an Avid project in local and shared-storage environments
• manage and maintain project media, including both audio and video files, using a variety of tools and metadata throughout the project life cycle
• navigate Avid Media Composer and perform tasks
• understand Avid Media Composer’s formats, frame rates, media creation settings and more

This microcredential provides practical hands-on experience using the latest version of Avid Media Composer to complete exporting and file delivery tasks. This course has been set up to emphasize the skills needed for unscripted factual and competition based multi-episodic television shows. 

• identify and explain the different types of media formats for acquisition, editorial, export and delivery 
• recognize, operate and manipulate a variety of Avid Media Composer tools such as dupe detection, offline clip colouring, timecode burn-in, mask margins, audio/video mixdowns and title recreation
• export H264 reference files to be submitted with show masters
• execute the fundamentals of how to create Avid export presets
• demonstrate the use of Advanced Authoring Format exports and how to create them for different workflows
• utilize the Avid media tool to delete unused media
• demonstrate the ability to consolidate clips for importing
• understand the difference between acquisition and archiving consolidation
• clearly understand the differences between audio deliverables and how to export them
• showcase the method of consolidation for backup and archiving

This microcredential provides the skills needed to complete a variety of organizational and media management tasks using the latest version of Avid Media Composer. Go beyond the basics of the software to learn the in-demand skills needed to thrive in the factual, unscripted sector of the television industry.

• identify footage specifications
• consolidate/transcode multicam timelines to save drive space, working with 4K content
• create and manipulate group clips to work more efficiently with multicam timelines
• set up timelines to be used for multicam editing
• adjusting multicam timelines to showcase understanding of the functionality 
• demonstrate when and when not to use multicam edits
• explain and execute the process of relinking media in Avid Media Composer
• examining the difference between clip and timeline transcoding
• demonstrate the ability to identify external dailies and how to deal with them
• create basic slates and shot holders in Avid titler+
• know how to use clip markers, timeline markers and clip notes