So much so in fact that the keyboard itself is fully mappable and customisable. Media Composer grants you access to multiple video and audio tracks, enabling you to create quite complex sequences.Ī lot of the navigation and editing seems to work better via the keyboard. EditingĪs you’d expect, all the tools you need to cut your movie are available to you, and the experience is similar to other professional video editing software. From there, double-click on a clip to preview it, set in and out points and add your selection to the Timeline. Your imported footage is placed into bins, helping you organise yourself as you gather up the resources you need to create your project. Add any media already stored on one of your drives to Media Composer in the same way, although you have the choice of either importing the footage or merely linking to it - the latter saves space but you need to make sure that drive is kept connected in order to edit with your chosen media. If your camera records to an internal hard drive, hook it up and use the Source Browser to import the footage. If you work with a tape deck, you just connect it to your computer and log and capture the footage. Importing media is done in a variety of ways.
This is where you can quickly check all the new features added with each update, from version 2019.6 onwards. It’s worth noting that when you launch the software, you’ll also notice a ‘What’s New’ section as a separate menu.