If you need to adjust the start and end times you can do that in the Sequence window using the “Segment Mode” icon. You’ll find it in the “Edit Master Caption List.” This is where you’ll be able to modify the text. In Avid Media Composer, you edit your caption file inside the Effects Editor. You also have similar options for “Box Appearance” regarding your subtitles’ background. To edit the font color or size just toggle to the captions track and then, click “Tools”, and “Effect Editor.” The SubCap menu should appear.Įxpand the “Text Appearance” menu and adjust your fonts as needed. There are two ways to polish your captions once they are in AVID Media Composer: Adjusting text appearanceĪvid Media Composer subtitles’ are in an open-caption format so it allows users to adjust several text attributes. Your subtitles must align exactly with the media you brought into Media composer or it won’t import. Expand the “Caption Files” part, and choose “Import Caption Data.” and grab the file you exported from Sonix. Toggle to the “Filler” track and then return to “Tools.” and select “Effects Editor”. On the right, you will see “SubCap.” Grab and drag this item onto the blank video track in the Sequence window. Toggle the new video track and then go to “Tools” in the top menu of Avid Media Composer.Ĭhoose “Effect Palette.” Once the Effect menu is open, locate “Generator” and click this. This extra video track is where you’ll place your captions or subtitles file. Now scroll to “New” and then select “Video Track.” In the top menu of Avid Media Composer, click on “Timeline”.
It’s unfortunately not as simple as pressing “Import” and selecting a file. Now you are ready to import your captions! Import captions file It will automatically populate video and corresponding audio channels. Your files will encode with Avid’s Media Creation center and then, they will appear inside the Bin.ĭrag a video from the Bin into the Sequence window below. Now select “Import Media.”įrom here you can select any audio, video, and media you’ll include in the Media Composer project. Go to the Bin window and right-click inside the area and scroll to “Input”. Avid was founded by Bill Warner, a marketing manager from Apollo Computer.A prototype of their first non-linear editing system, the Avid/1 Media Composer, was shown at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in April 1988. You can change this by right-clicking the Tracking Information Menu (Mas TC1) and selecting “Sequence Report.”Īdjust the start time and “apply changes.” Then press “Cancel.” Start a timeline by right-clicking inside the Bin area, and choosing “New Sequence.”īy default the Media Composer starts at one hour → 01:00:00:00. You think that this should be easy, but there are a few settings to change first. We'll break them down into two sections: Import media files There are several things you’ll need to do before importing.
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