15Power Editing Techniques
Delving Deeper
As we’ve noted on several occasions, Avid Media Composer is a complex editing system, loaded with features that give the editor tremendous flexibility. For the most part, I have stuck to the basics so that you can start editing with confidence and efficiency. Now, I’m going to delve a little deeper, and begin examining more advanced editing features.
Match Frame
Match Frame is a very handy command, and something most editors use a lot. It allows you to immediately access the source clip of a shot in the Timeline—usually because you want to check what comes before or after the section you spliced in. When you perform a Match Frame on a clip in the Timeline, the entire source clip is immediately loaded ...
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