AUDIO EDITING IN MC6

Avid Audio.

Media Composer splits the audio into left and right channels on the timeline, and also has graphic equaliser and level control in real time.  Here you can see how you can customise the audio level display in various ways.

Mixers, EQ and Levels

Avid has a selection of audio editing tools including realtime mixing with audio automation (this is where you play the timeline and make realtime adjustments to the levels as yuo do so), plus an EQ window and a decent audio level display.

if you can remember your keyboard short cuts you can do things very quickly - want to take a bunch of audio clips and centre them - select them on the timeline, hold ALT and click on the correct place of the "audio mix tool". At the bottom of each track there is a heading which says "L100" or "R100", which means 100% left or 100% right. Click here to centre audio quickly.

Track level audio effects

You can also apply these effects to the entire audio track and these do not have to be rendered.  You can apply up to 5 effects per track slotted into the 5 small boxes shown at the start of the track header.

SURROUND SOUND MIXING IN MC6

In Media Composer 6 you can edit and mix in 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound inside Media Composer.

Here you can see the expanded view of the mixer panel inside MC6.  At a click this can be closed down so you can see the standard mixer with the various tracks intact.

Using this mixer you can set the position of any piece of audio in surround sound space. 

You can mix surround sound even on a system with stereo speaks - you just can't monitor it.  The best way to monitor is to use an output device like the Matrox MX02.  All the MX02s (Mini, LE, and RACK) will output surround sound through their HDMI outputs - so you can decode this if plugged into a surround sound amplifier with HDMI inputs.  If you buy the version simply called the Matrox MX02 then you also 6 phono plugs for direct analogue output of surround sound from the timeline.

LARGE LIST OF EFFECTS SUPPLIED

Media Composer 6 comes with a huge list of effect as seen here.  You can see the expanded list of RTAS audio effects which can be applied in real time on the timeline.