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Avid Editing, Third Edition: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users

Sam Kauffmann

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

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

Avid Xpress Pro Power!

Steve Julin

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

This is a must have for Avid Xpress Pro users 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I make my living editing digital video and this book is by far the best instructional material on Avid Xpress Pro I've seen. There are tips and suggestions it would have taken me years to figure out on my own. I'm doing better quality work in less time. I wish I had found this book two years ago.

Editorial Review:

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!

Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors (3rd Edition) (Apple Pro Training)

Diana Weynand

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Moving from Avid to FCP? This book is great! 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

We have been an Avid only edit house for years, but reciently purchased two Final Cut systems. Most of the transition was pretty easy, but trying to figure out how to do some of the things in FCP that we did in our sleep on the Avid slowed us down a bit. This book draws great parallels between the two systems.

This book Yes Indeed 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

As an Avid editor and now learning FCP, I can recommend this book for helping to understand where everthing is. This book is a must unless you want to tear your hair out. If you know how it feels going from Media Composer to DS, then you will understand why you need this book and I might add others.

Editorial Review:

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.

Editing with Avid Xpress Pro and Avid Xpress DV (Avid Educational)

Avid Technology Inc.

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

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, therelace to start: Editing with Avid Xpress Pro, an entire self-paced course-in-a-book from Avidng 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 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 youe power of all of Xpress Proes 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.

The Avid Handbook, Fifth Edition: Advanced Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems

Greg Staten, Steve Bayes

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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

Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users, Second Edition

Sam Kauffmann

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

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

Avid Xpress Pro Editing Workshop

Steve Hullfish, Jaime Fowler, CMP Books

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Worth the price the first day 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great book for the way I learn. I don't like reading from front to back and with AVID being my new editing platform, I needed a book that would allow me to jump to what I was interested in at the time. Hullfish's book allows me to find answers that are not obvious in the regular 'help' menus of the software. This book paid for itself within 1 day after it arrived.

Editorial Review:

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.

Introduction to Avid Xpress DV 3.5 Effects

Avid Technology Inc.

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Avid Xpress Pro and DV On the Spot: Time-Saving Tips and Shortcuts from the Pros (On The Spot {Series}) (On The Spot {Series})

Steve Hullfish, Christopher Phrommayon, Bob Donlon

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Buy it, read it, Master Avid! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love this book, I've used it as a reference during production, and as bed time reading just to help me get a better handle on what the software can do. I would recommend it to any one trying to advance their Avid knowledge, and based on this experience I would recommend the rest of the series as appropriate for what applications you're running.

Good 3 out of 5 stars.
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I learned some valuable tips that made it worth the price, but there's no index so either memorize every tip, or plan on digging a lot to recall something.

Editorial Review:

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.

The Avid Handbook: Techniques for the Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress, Third Edition

Steve Bayes

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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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