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Understanding the finishing process

Understanding the finishing process - Media Composer Tutorial

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Understanding the finishing process

Once you have locked your picture, and have either sent away for titling or completed them yourself, you're ready to tackle other finishing stages of the post-production process. We are going to talk about two of these right now, the professional audio mix and color correction. Now, these phases of the process are extremely deep, and we won't be going through them step-by-step, but I did want to at least get you acquainted with them. Let's first address audio. Now, you have probably already done a general level of acceptable work in Media Composer regarding general correction of level and pan, and you may have addressed some corrective work via audio suite plug-ins, but by and large, most major audio corrections are typically done outside of Media Composer, most often in Pro Tools. Whether the audio mix is completed in Media Composer or exported to Pro Tools, there are several issues that should be addressed in a general workflow by the audio mixer. The level and pan must be adjusted…

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