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Importing video, audio, and graphics

Importing video, audio, and graphics

From the course: Migrating from Final Cut Pro 7 to Avid Media Composer 5.5

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Importing video, audio, and graphics

In Media Composer, if we need to work with multimedia files that are not supported for immediate linking via AMA then we will need to instead import the media. Examples of media types that we might want to import to Media Composer will be things like graphic files-- we can import a full variety, such as TIFF, JPEG, and layered Photoshop documents-- Audio--MP3, AIFF and WAV--HDV. Some HDV cameras shoot a file as well as to tape, producing M2T files, and then we have AVCHD, which produces MTS files, OMFI for audio sequences coming from an audio application. AAF, which reads complex sequences from various applications--it's really a modern version of an EDL. MXF, Media Composer can AMA-link to most MXF media, but there is also the option to import it too. And then there is Windows Media for Windows-based systems only, and QuickTime. Again, we have the choice to either AMA to H.264 animation ProRes and Avid Codecs, but we can also import those files as well. So remember, in Media Composer…

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