Avid Microcredentials (AVID)

Welcome to the Ingest Operations course, the first step in your journey to becoming a certified Avid Assistant Editor for Unscripted TV. This course will guide you through the essential tasks you'll need to master at the start of any post-production, focusing specifically on the critical ingest phase.

Unscripted projects are known for their complexity and variability, with each production bringing its own unique processes and team dynamics. As an assistant editor, your role is to ensure everything runs smoothly during this critical first stage. The ingest phase involves transferring raw media files into the editing environment, ensuring they're organized, verified, and ready for the edit.

This course is designed to teach anyone aspiring to be assistant editor the technical and organizational skills for ingest operations. From properly ingesting media to transcoding media for offline projects, this course empowers you to take your technical Media Composer skills to the next level. Lessons provide hands-on exercises and knowledge checks, allowing you to gain mastery over the full unscripted ingest operations workflow - along with support and lessons from industry leading professionals.

Ingest operations are foundational to the entire post-production workflow. Properly ingested and organized media is crucial for avoiding delays and preventing technical issues later on. By carefully managing this process, you play a vital role in setting up the post-production team for success, allowing them to focus on crafting the final product with efficiency and confidence.

Our Avid microcredentials were developed with funding from the Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security through a collaborative effort between the Faculty of Continuing Education and the Seneca Film Institute.

• Create effective ingest workflows through understanding post production team roles and dynamics
• Perform evaluations on a wide variety of media files, formats, and sources
• Perform critical post production tasks using Avid Media Composer - such as transcoding,
• Manage complex project asset ingests
• Troubleshoot and resolve ingest issues

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