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Avid Made Easy: Video Editing with Avid Free DV and the Avid Xpress Family
 
 
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Avid Made Easy: Video Editing with Avid Free DV and the Avid Xpress Family [Paperback]

Jaime Fowler (Author)
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0782144403 978-0782144406 January 3, 2006
  • 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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  • 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.

About the Author

Jamie Fowler has been editing video for more than two decades. He has worked as an editor with Warner Brothers, Universal, and other major studios. He served as an Avid Multicam advisor on 32 different situation comedies and edited seven Emmy-winning television programs. The author of four books on editing and the creative process, he currently resides in Texas, where he writes, edit, teaches, and plays.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 348 pages
  • Publisher: Sybex (January 3, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0782144403
  • ISBN-13: 978-0782144406
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,119,438 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jaime Fowler is an award winning editor and author of four books on post-production about Avid, Final Cut, color correction and the process of editing from film to digital. He has consulted and spoken at conferences including Sundance and DV Expo. Jaime has worked as a post production consultant for several films and situation comedies from Warner Bros., Paramount and Universal. He was instrumental in the development of Avid's multicamera software, for which he and the development team won an Emmy in 1995 (he has edited 5 Emmy-winning television programs as well).

Jaime's editing credits include "The Abyss: Special Edition", "Under Pressure: Making The Abyss" for James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment. He also edited many trailers, featurettes and EPKs for Warner Bros, Tri Star and other companies. Jaime was credited as editor on the television series "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" for many years. He became a voting national member of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1986.

Jaime is currently lead professor of Digital Video and Film Production at The Art Institute of Dallas. He is completing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Art and Technology. In 2009, he began writing and directing short films for both web and film festival consumption. You can view his current work at jaimefowler.com

You can purchase his books directly on Amazon.com

 

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This review is from: Avid Made Easy: Video Editing with Avid Free DV and the Avid Xpress Family (Paperback)
Avid Made Easy is an interesting read for those new to non-linear editing and to the Avid system in particular. The author, Jamie Fowler, prepares you well with the history of NLE and Avid before you do your first exercise. However, torward the end of the book, your practice exercise is left unfinished despite the author's earlier promise to clean it up. Also, installing the companion disk can be a bit confusing. It's best to download and install Avid Free DV from the Avid website, then follow the book's directions for for installing the exercise and its related files from the companion CD. Other than that, Avid Made Easy is a great tool for learning the basics of the Avid editing system.
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First Sentence:
Editing is fun. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
timecode registers, blue position indicator, frame code mode, analog scrub, create tone media, digital scrub, expansion nesting, digital cut, deck configuration settings, step nesting, panel selector, sync breaks, sync locks, trim loop, trim mode, bitstream output, deck button, track panel, frame timecode, timecode display, effect palette, track selectors, target bin, timecode numbers, capture button
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Xpress Pro, Effect Editor, Picture In Picture, Effects Editing, Avid Free, Cancel Figure, Media Composer, Avid Pro Tools, Mark Clip, Expert Render, Use Marks, Add Edit, Quick Transition, Audio Mix, Avid Log Exchange, Avid Made Easy, Caps Lock, Record Editing, Use Enabled Tracks, Interpolated Field, Audio Passthrough Mix, Duplicated Field, Fixed Aspect, Graphic Documents, Supporting Files
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