Avid Liquid 7 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide [Paperback]

Paul Ekert (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321369475 | ISBN-13: 978-0321369475 | Publication Date: December 31, 2005 | Edition: 1

Need to master Avid Liquid 7 fast? Try a Visual QuickPro!

This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with this popular editing software in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Avid Liquid (formerly known as Pinnacle Liquid), leading Avid evangelist and filmmaking consultant Paul Ekert uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you everything that’s new in Avid Liquid 7. Filled with step-by-step, task-based instructions and loads of visual aids, this book explains how to effectively use Avid Liquid 7 to streamline your workflow; enhance your creativity; use primary functions such as Timeline, FX, Titles, Audio, DVD creation; and more. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of all the program's new features: SmartSound (enables you to quickly create soundtracks from a library of samples); Real-time Time Warp (see your slow-mo without rendering); 50 new special effects; dozens of style and compositing effects taken from Commotion; and more!

•    Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
•    Works like a reference book—you look up what you need and then get straight to work
•    Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Paul Ekert is a principal evangelist in the Avid Liquid community, contributing to its development both as a former member of the QA team and now as an external consultant. He is a keen filmmaker who writes and edits his own productions. Paul has written the previous edition of this book, Pinnacle Liquid Edition 6, and currently writes fiction and non-fiction at his home in Germany.

Product Details

• Paperback: 524 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (December 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321369475
• ISBN-13: 978-0321369475
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,491,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My name is Paul Ekert and I have been a writer now for some time - or at least it feels that way. In that time, I have written various non-fiction books, a number of articles, a novel in the crime-genre, several plays, some short stories and the odd poem.

No idea what I'll be doing tomorrow.

I am in my Mid 40's (if this is important to you) and currently a student at Ruskin College in Oxford.

All of my work is available for production or performance at www.paulekert.com, but please drop me a line first (an invite wouldn't go a miss either).

I can be contacted at: [e-mail]

Thank you for your time.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE for all Avid Liquid Users, May 31, 2006

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Andy Browne "Liquid Junkie" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Avid Liquid 7 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

Generally speaking, the one thing that anger's most software owners is it's ineffective and poorly written user manual. In many cases, product documentation is written by the same people who create the product's underlying code. Rarely do these people understand what it is like to use the product. So while the documentation may be technically accurate, it's organization, context, appearance and overall utility severely suffers.

Liquid users take heart... relief is in sight. For those of us who still like to rummage through the printed page, I am so glad to see a book (written by a film maker) that breaks the stereotypes of what we know as "user documentation."

This book is not a tutorial, but serves similar objectives. Its almost as if Paul Ekert, the author, is looking over your shoulder and directing you on how to accomplish a specific task.

By the time Avid was ready to release their new 7.0 version of Liquid, Paul Ekert released this updated version of his book. If you are familiar with his book on Pinnacle Liquid Edition 6, he did a lot more that simply swap the name Pinnacle for Avid and increment the 6 to a 7. Building upon the success of his 6.0 book, Paul took this opportunity to fully update his reference manual. Going well beyond Liquid's new features, improvements were made to the book's organization thus allowing users to find answers in a much more efficient manner.

Most manuals sit on a bookshelf and are only utilized when you have a question. What I especially like about this book is its overall readability. Paul's friendly writing style will appeal to many Liquid editors.

Recommendation: Even if you have the previous version of this book, you will want to keep you library current with this version. The bottom line a good read and an awesome reference.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Understanding what you read, May 30, 2007

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A. W. Hoedemaker "Tony Hoedemaker" (Wassenaar the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Avid Liquid 7 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

When you are a daily user of the Liquid system and work in a editing team, the Avid Liquid Reference Manual is the place to find answers to all your questions.
If you don't belong to these group of people, the reference manual still will give you all the answers, but the problem may be you don't understand the answer.
Paul Ekert, Avid Liquid for Windows deals with the same matherial, but he speaks a different language. This makes him much more understandable to a large audience.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to AVID LIQUID video editing, January 18, 2007

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Fred Ginsburg "film/video production professo... (Mission Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Avid Liquid 7 for Windows: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

There is very little in the way of published texts explaining the new version of AVID (formerly Pinnacle) LIQUID video editing software... but fortunately this book fills the void! As a professional video editing instructor and turnkey editing system reseller, I can appreciate a useful text when I read one, and I am happy to recommend this book to anyone who is just starting out with Liquid or Liquid Pro software. We advise our own students and clients to purchase copies, and would heartily endorse it to the general public. The author covers the material well and the book is populated with lots of screenshots illustrating the software menu's. He does not cover the "art" of editing, but rather focusses on the physical operation of Liquid, from capturing the raw footage through creation of the final product. I would have liked to see a little more coverage of splitting & trimming scenes, but overall I still think that this is the best textbook dealing with Liquid that I have yet to encounter.