5 AWESOME colour workflows in Avid
Hey Guys!
Thank-you very much for tuning in to another video!!
This one is more of a workflow video than a features one, highlighting some very helpful uses for colour coding within media composer. This is something that I’m always trying to push with other assistants and editors as I’m a very visual person and colour coding helps me track all kinds of things very very quickly without having to read any data. For example tracking a character’s relative screen time in the production!
As mentioned in the video here is a link to Page Break Productions. An
awesome film company based in Scotland, who I’ve worked with several times now, that have graciously allowed me to use source footage for one of the their films “The Treasurer”. This is a short I cut with them in 2019. You can find the full film that went to festivals on their channel too, I’ll have it linked under the main page. Thanks again Richard and Mike!!
Page Break Main Page
/ pagebreakproductions
The Treasurer Link
• The Treasurer | Short Film | Page Break Pr...
Also mentioned in the video is the feature film “Northspur” which I edited end of 2019 / beginning of 2020 which is now gearing up for it’s theatrical debut in New Zealand. So any New Zealand based viewers out there, please go have a look and support the independent film Industry! Was made by a passionate group of people in the South Island, down in Blenheim so thanks again Justin and Aaron for the role on that film. We’re all proud of it! See below for a trailer
of the film:
• Northspur Theatrical Trailer
Specs of Avid system at time of recording this video:
MacBook Pro 2018
Six Core i9 2.9GHz CPU / 32GB of RAM / 4GB Radeon Pro 560X
MacOS 12.4 - Monterey
Avid Media Composer 2022.7
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - 01 Colour Coding Sources
01:48 - 02 Scene Clip Colours
05:40 - 03 Colour Coding Dialogue/SFX/Music
07:52 - 04 Seq Colouring
09:31 - 05 Bin bg Colouring
11:35 - Outro
As always music from my intro / outro is from the incredibly talented Bensound:
https://www.bensound.com