Editing with Avid Xpress Pro and Avid Xpress DV

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Features

• Official Avid Curriculum—The only Avid titles containing the official curriculum created by Avid Technology Inc.'s team of Education Specialists.

  • Students benefit from courseware that reflects Avid's own expertise and has been extensively pre-tested for clarity and educational effectiveness.

• Accompanying DVD or CD-ROM—Has all files and footage for the exercises and projects.

  • Lets students learn the editing tasks through hands-on exercises and projects.

• Overview and Outline—The beginning of the book delineates the Modules and Exercises.

  • Provides students and instructors with a course outline at a glance.

• Lesson objectives at the beginning of each Module.

  • Teach concepts, contain instructions and illustrations for teaching specific skills

• Review Questions at the end of each Module.

  • Lets students immediately check their knowledge and revisit any part of the chapter they haven't mastered.

• Exercises with projects after each Module.

  • Students work with files and footage to demonstrate the concepts and utilize the skills they have learned in each Module

Description

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.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Avid Educational Services. Other Resources. Symbols and Conventions. Comments? Copying the Files from the Accompanying DVD-ROM.

System Hardware. Basic Editing Steps. Avid Terms and Concepts. Starting the System. Creating and Opening a Project. Working in the Project Window. Working in Bins. Using Online Help. Review Questions. Exercise: Get Started.

The Editing Interface. Playing Clips. Marking the Edit Points in a Clip. Creating a New Sequence. Adding Shots. Removing Material from a Sequence. Essential Basic Tools. Review Questions. Exercise: Basic Editing.

Locating an Audio Edit Cue. Trimming. Explaining Single-Roller Trims. Performing a Single-Roller Trim. Dual-Roller Trimming. Additional Trim Features. Real-Time Effect Playback. Adding Dissolves. Review Questions. Exercise: Trim the Rainforest Sequence. Use Trim Buttons.

Viewing and Changing Settings. Using the SuperBin. Additional Navigation Tools. Mapping User-Selectable Buttons. Using Toolsets. Subclipping and Storyboarding. Review Questions. Exercise: Subclips and Storyboards.

Saving Bins. Retrieving Bins from the Avid Attic..Ending the Session. Review Questions. Exercise: Back Up Your Project.

Trimming Dialog. Creating Split Edits. Maintaining Sync. Review Questions. Exercise: Edit Dialog.

Using Locators. Adding and Patching Tracks. Configuring the Timeline. Saving a Customized Timeline View. Editing Segments in the Timeline. Slipping and Sliding Segments. Review Questions. Exercise: Work in the Timeline.

Introduction. Adjusting Level and Pan in the Audio Mix Tool. Adjusting Audio Gain with Keyframes. Automation Gain Real-Time Recording. Review Questions. Exercise: Fine-Tune Audio.

Setting the Capture Options. Choosing the Video Resolution. Setting Audio Levels. Capturing Footage. Logging and Batch Capturing. Review Questions. Exercise: Capture Video.

Using Text View. Adding a Custom Column to a Bin. Sorting and Sifting Clips. Moving Clips Between Bins. Review Questions. Exercise: Organize Your Bins.

Getting Started. Working with the Title Tool. Formatting Text. Applying Shadows and Borders. Choosing Colors. Saving, Fading, and Revising Titles. Rolling and Crawling Titles. Review Questions. Exercise: Create Titles.

Locking Items in the Bin. Deleting Clips and Media Files. The Media Tool.MIdentifying Media Relatives. Review Questions. Exercise: Media Management.

Preparing to Record a Digital Cut. Creating Insert, Assemble, and Manual Edits. Review Questions.

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