Can EditStock Help With Avid Media Composer Practice?

Yes. EditStock provides the official Media Composer courses with training footage. If you're taking an Avid class at a university or a certified course online, you're already working with EditStock. 

If you're learning on your own, EditStock's library of projects can be imported into Media Composer and will work natively within the app. Our projects are specifically useful for learning how Avid builds complex timelines, trims, exports, syncs audio and more. 

Avid Media Composer has a decades long history use by the world's most celebrated filmmakers. Many of your favorite films were cut on Media Composer. Thus, it's important for students and individuals to learn Media Composer if they're going to work in professional post-production films, particularly in Los Angeles.

Learning Avid with regular traditional tutorial footage is different from learning it with EditStock's real indie films. Traditional tutorial footage is made up of scattered clips that show perfect examples. EditStock projects are provided directly from indie filmmakers and represent exactly what they film.

What EditStock material gives you

EditStock provides material in H264 format, which can be natively edited in Media Composer. The material is organized by scene and take, which is helpful to get started editing quickly without needing to sync and label a million shots. EditStock projects include mistakes that indie filmmakers made. We don't hold back any of the footage.

Any narrative project (a fictional film) will include the script. You can read the script and understand what you're supposed to be cutting, then look at the dailies and figure out how to work with them. That's the job.

Documentary projects come with transcripts. You can read what was said during interviews and decide which starts stay and go with Media Composer's transcript-based workflow.

For all EditStock projects the audio and video are delivered synced together, so you can focus on editing instead of troubleshooting. If you want to practice manual syncing, you can request unsynced audio and we will provide it free. That way, you'll work through the entire process in Avid the way assistant editors do.

How EditStock supports classroom learning

If you're teaching Avid Media Composer in an Avid Learning Partner (ALP) school, or through online tutorials, EditStock projects bring your teaching to life by providing real examples. The difference matters. Media Composer is a tool, but ultimately what the learner wants to know how to do is make creative decisions. They need both the tool and the creative examples.

A good Media Composer curriculum mixes both tool and creative training. Students learn buttons and menu commands and then they work on real dailies from EditStock projects to learn creative decision making. That's where the learning actually sticks.

What school and industry programs use EditStock 

Many of the world's leading film and video schools use EditStock in the classroom including Emerson College, the University of Southern California, Chapman University, the American Film Institute, Full Sail, NYU Tish and more.

EditStock and Avid have partnered for more than 10 years to bring amazing footage into the Avid Learner Partner program.