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Books : Computers & Internet : Digital Photography & Video : Avid
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Avid Editing is a comprehensive guide covering Avid Xpress Pro, XPress Pro HD, and Xpress DV. Due to the similarity of Avid's interface across product lines, it is also relevant for Media Composer and other systems. Suitable for beginning editors or experienced editors new to the Avid, the book provides step-by-step instructions for hundreds of editing tasks in jargon-free terms. The chapters guide you through an editing project, while the accompanying DVD provides narrative footage to download for immediate, hands-on practice. The book can be read and studied at home, or while sitting in front of an Avid, following the book's step-by-step instructions.
More than a software manual, this book delves into general editing techniques, principles, and pitfalls. The author is an experienced teacher who will help you master the Avid as well as improve your overall editing skills.
This edition covers working with HD, the 16:9 widescreen, and the powerful Script Integration tool. In addition, there's new coverage of the issues facing indie filmmaker who is trying to decide how to go from the DV stage (shooting on mini-DV or DVCAM formats) to theatrical distribution. As well, there is new material on using Avid in PAL regions.
* Focuses on Avid Xpress Pro, Xpress Pro HD, Xpress DV, and Media Composer but relevant to all Avid systems
* Companion DVD includes footage to edit to provide the hands-on experience you need
* Teaches HD, HDV, and 24P workflows
* Over 500 images and screen captures clearly illustrate principles
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Brimming with workflow efficiencies for the experienced editor, The Avid Handbook teaches you the hows and whys of operating the system in order to reach streamlined, creative end solutions. The book emphasizes time-saving techniques, shortcuts, and workflow procedures- the true keys to getting a job done.
The book has also been updated to include new information on HD formats and workflows, color-correction and grading capability enhancements, MXF media standardization, and much more.
Also new to this edition are an 8 page 4-color insert, adding depth to the color-correction lessons, as well as running sidebars throughout the book, calling out time-saving tips and techniques.
* New information on High-Definition tools and production workflows, allowing you to complete your HD projects in the most efficient manner
* New details on product updates and innovations such as HD, color-grading and capabilities, file-based video formats, and file-based instead of tape-based output
* The new edition features sidebars throughout that call out time-saving tips and techniques, as well as a new 8 page 4-color insert for more effective display with the color correction lessons
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Using Avid images and terminology, master teacher Diana Weynand shows you how to perform the tasks you’ve been doing in Media Composer by using Final Cut Pro instead. You’ll find detailed feature comparisons, practical conversion tips, and instructions on how to use Final Cut Pro features that aren’t available in Media Composer. The book makes the transition easy. Each chapter presents a complete lesson in some aspect of Final Cut Pro with a project to complete, a review section, and exercises to reinforce the lessons.
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Unleash your creativity. Let "Avid Xpress ® Pro Power!" be your guide to masterful storytelling using Avid Xpress Pro. Work your way through a variety of editing techniques and learn not only how each function works, but also when and why you should use it. This unique, hands-on book won't bog you down with useless technical jargon. Instead, you'll focus on real-world project creation. Learn how to confidently use sound, color, and graphics to tell a story. Master the nuances of incorporating rhythm, pace, and timing into your editing process. The book includes an entire chapter dedicated solely to shortcuts and tips to help you complete your work more quickly and efficiently. Harness the power of Avid Xpress Pro!
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Expanding on every aspect of Avid Xpress DVD except price, the next-generation editing dynamo Avid Xpress Pro ($1,695) delivers real-time video, film, and audio editing functionality to the masses (and their laptops!) by offering the revolutionary ability to send uncompressed video over standard FireWire cable (when paired with the Avid Mojo hardware accelerator). Big news for serious filmmakers¿and when it¿s time to get up to speed on the most important product in your editing toolbox, there¿s just one place to start: Editing with Avid Xpress Pro, an entire self-paced course-in-a-book from Avid¿s own training experts.
Through step-by-step instructions, real-world examples, loads of screen shots, and an accompanying DVD that includes all of the professionally produced footage used in the exercises, you¿ll learn how to input and organize source footage, edit sync and non-sync material, trim sequences, adjust audio, create titles, output work, and more. Along the way you¿ll unlock the power of all of Xpress Pro¿s new features as well: automatic expert color correction (which allows single-click correction of entire sequences), advanced filtering and effects, powerful film support, high-quality output, and more.
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The Avid Media Composer, Avid Xpress and Avid Symphony are the most widely used nonlinear editing systems by professionals in the film and video industries. Based on his experience teaching countless seminars around the world on the Avid Media Composer, Avid Symphony and Avid Xpress, Steve Bayes has written the most comprehensive manual for nonlinear digital editing on these Avid editing systems. This handbook is now revised throughout to reflect recent upgrades to these systems and the third edition covers Symphony 2.1, Media Composer 9.1 and Avid Xpress 3.1, as well as earlier versions.
Written for the reader who already has a basic knowledge of the editing systems, this book moves beyond an introduction to the professional Avid editing systems and focuses on strategies, techniques, and troubleshooting. The Avid Handbook covers the basics of working with effects, rendering, and graphics and discusses the more abstract issues of workflow and organization of different types of editing projects. The book discusses frequently made mistakes, common technical problems,and how they can be avoided. In addition, there is an in depth explanation of Symphony color correction, 24 p and other new features and efficiencies in the latest software versions from Avid. The Avid Handbook discusses techniques for Windows NT users, including the most complete description of the offline to online workflow using Avid systems.
Includes techniques for using Windows NT with Avid systems
Revised throughout to reflect system upgrades
A guide to strategies, common problems, and techniques while editing nonlinear digital video or film
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- Create impressive effects with free DV and XPress Pro
- Capture, edit, and output digital media
- Import and export images, movies, and audio
Master the Tools and Techniques Used by Professional Editors
Avid made non-linear video editing possible. This book makes it easy, even if you have no experience at all. In as little as a week, its clear instruction and realistic, practical tutorials will help you master every aspect of video editing with Avid:
- Capturing from DV or other source footage
- Creating and organizing storage bins
- Customizing settings to suit your specific needs
- Navigating and selecting clips for editing
- Editing clips into sequences
- Trimming sequences for more precise and flexible editing
- Importing graphics, audio, and movies
- Exporting edited sequences to a variety of formats
- Creating transitional and segment effects
Know where all the tools are, and quickly find the easiest way to access any Avid function.
Easily manage all your video sources, multiple audio tracks, and transitions and trims!
Get just the right amount of information for the task at hand, such as keyframing audio.
But Avid Made Easy is more than a comprehensive introduction to the capabilities of Avid Xpress and Free DV products. Author Jaime Fowler brings every bit of his vast experience to bear, helping you choose the right approach for every situation. He even teaches advanced techniques that you won't find covered in any Avid manual.
The enclosed DVD contains your personal copy of Free DV, all the files you need to complete the book's tutorials, and a collection of the hottest Avid plug-ins.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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The On the Spot series delivers immediate solutions to the reader with a concise presentation of over 350 expert techniques for working proficiently with the respective application. Avid Xpress Pro and DV On the Spot provides experienced editors with complete coverage of both applications' capabilities, and less experienced users get tips and tricks to enhance their productivity and creativity.
Packed with more than 300 techniques, this book delivers what you need to know-on the spot.
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This text is for beginning to intermediate users of Avid Xpress, Xpress DV, or Media Composer. These digital editing systems offer a tremendous number of tools that open up myriad creative possibilities for the film and videomaker, but are as a result difficult to master. The chapters guide readers through an editing project, while the accompanying DVD provides narrative footage to download for immediate, hands-on practice. The book can be read and studied at home, or while sitting in front of an Avid, following the book's step-by-step instructions.
The new edition is updated to reflect the latest versions of Avid software, including an emphasis on the Xpress DV for Mac and Windows. There is also new material on Script Integration, a powerful tool now available on almost all of Avid's products, and a new chapter on how Avid can help the reader create material for current and future widescreen television formats.
·A beginning text designed for anyone new to the Avid
·Complete step-by-step instructions assume no prior knowledge
·Companion DVD contains footage from a narrative scene, so students can begin editing immediately
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This book moves beyond the basics of "pushing the buttons"; explaining the most efficient and effective ways of using Xpress Pro to tell the story. Readers develop a working knowledge of the application with lessons and tutorials that cover every essential method and technique. An excellent resource for students and professional editors new to Xpress Pro, this book and DVD combo provides valuable hands-on practice with an extended example that demonstrates the edit of an entire sequence. Project media and plug-ins are provided on the companion DVD.
This book moves beyond the basics of 'pushing the buttons,' explaining the most efficient and effective ways of using Xpress Pro to tell the story.
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Now that Avid Xpress Pro (in combination with the Avid Mojo hardware accelerator) makes true real-time video, film, and audio editing possible from virtually any location in the world, Hollywood¿s video editing software of choice is being adopted far beyond Hollywood as well. To get up to speed on both it and Avid XPress DV quickly and efficiently, you¿ll want this easy, task-based volume. The entire video-editing process¿from getting a DV project rolling to advanced editing and distribution methods¿is covered here. Video guru James Monohan leaves no stone unturned as he shows you how to set up and customize your desktop; record and import files; integrate audio; create titles, dissolves, and transitions; correct color; add special effects; use plug-ins; render real-time effects; output to disc and the Web; and more. Along the way you¿ll learn about all of XPress DV¿s and XPress Pro¿s most exciting newer features: automatic expert color correction, advanced filtering and effects, powerful film support, high-quality output, and more.
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If you're serious about your career as a video editor, you need to learn on the software that the pros use. Avid Xpress DV 3.5 brings broadcast and Hollywood video editing power to your desktop for under $2,000 and Avid Xpress DV 3.5 Editing shows you how to use it. The training experts at Avid have crammed an entire beginner's course into one complete book/CD-ROM combo that lets you get hands-on fast. This book covers all stages of the editing process including how to input and organize source footage, edit sync and non-sync material, trim sequences, edit audio, create titles, and output a finished program. Even if you've never used an Avid system before, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with screenshots and reinforced with review questions and practice exercises, promise to turn you into a proficient Avid user by the time you're through with this comprehensive course.
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As soon as video editors gain a basic understanding of how to use Avid's industry-standard digital video editing software, the first thing they want to learn is how to create effects. After all, effects make the difference between video that looks professional and video that looks as if you've just downloaded it from your mini-DV cam. Introduction to Avid Xpress DV 3.5 Effects introduces beginning and intermediate users to fundamental concepts, such as applying effects, fine-tuning effect parameters, adjusting keyframes, creating horizontal and vertical effects, and nesting. This self-paced course from the experts at Avid uses step-by-step explanations and exercises, coupled with a companion CD-ROM including all of the files referenced in the book, to get readers creating even complex effects fast. Readers looking for expert advice on creating everything from fades to titles with Avid's affordable, yet professional, video editing software have found the one guide that will get them up and running within a day.
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This digital document is an article from Productivity Software, published by Worldwide Videotex on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 866 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: AVID UNVEILS FILMSCRIBE OPTION FOR AVID XPRESS DV 2.0.(Product Announcement)
Publication: Productivity Software (Newsletter)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: Worldwide Videotex
Volume: 14 Issue: 3 Page: NA
Article Type: Product Announcement
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on May 7, 2001. The length of the article is 487 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: AVID XPRESS DV 2.0 SHIPS AT $1,699.(Product Announcement)
Publication: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 7, 2001
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 42 Issue: 17 Page: 8
Article Type: Product Announcement
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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AVID XPRESS DV 2.0 SHIPS AT $1,699.(Product Announcement): An article from: Software Industry Report
This digital document is an article from Software Industry Report, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on May 7, 2001. The length of the article is 487 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: AVID XPRESS DV 2.0 SHIPS AT $1,699.(Product Announcement)
Publication: Software Industry Report (Newsletter)
Date: May 7, 2001
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 33 Issue: 9 Page: 4
Article Type: Product Announcement
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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