New Assistant Editing for Reality Television Class now available to watch for Free!

The class, which is based on Avid Media Composer 2023.12, is now much more thorough and concise than ever before and at five hours total it’s only half as long!

While the class is geared toward those beginning their careers in editorial, there is a ton of information on the ins and outs of Avid Media Composer that even a seasoned editor may not be aware of.

In the past, we’ve done the class as a single video but we felt it made more sense to do separate videos for each topic so that viewers can skip topics they already feel comfortable with or share videos that they’d like friends to watch.

You can find all of the videos as part of the class page which now uses a YouTube playlist:

Assistant Editing for Reality Television

Or you can watch the videos individually, there are eight videos included in the class:

Why Begin Your Editorial Career as an Assistant Editor for Reality TV

The Fundamentals of Video

Understanding the Media Composer Interface

Linking and Importing Media in Avid Media Composer

Ingesting Media in Avid Media Composer

Exporting Interviews for Transcription

Exporting Cuts in Avid Media Composer for Reality TV

Multigrouping in Avid Media Composer

We hope you enjoy this new class and new format, as this will be our class format going forward. We also plan to update our other classes over time but don’t have a solid timeline yet.

If you find these new classes or our past classes useful we would love to hear about it! Please let us know what classes you took and how they helped you.

Looking for class participants!

I'm looking at doing the new Assistant Editing for Reality TV class as a free virtual webinar in the next two weeks but I'd like to restrict it to 10 participants. These 10 participants will need to have a system with Media Composer 2023.12 and I will run through their system setup with them before hand to make sure everything is working. If you or someone you know is interested in being one of these 10 participants please install a trial of Media Composer 2023.12 and confirm that it works and send me an email at assistbootcamp@gmail.com, let me know your experience level, why you'd like to take the class and the system that you'll be using for the class.

Overhauling the Reality TV class

It’s been five years since we recorded the Assistant Editing for Reality TV class and so much has changed! The Avid interface has completely changed, the removal of QuickTime and title tool have changed the importing and slate creation process and manual grouping is now a thing of the past! I’m working to create a new version of the class that will reflect these changes and should offer much more practical materials for practice. I’m aiming to do the class for free sometime in the fall but I don’t have a date quite yet. I’ll make sure to keep everyone in the loop! Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for the upcoming class.