The Avid Handbook, Techniques for the Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0240803914 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 235 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Steve also spent two years as Senior Instructor for Avid Educational Services, teaching Avid students and instructors in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is the author of the book "The Avid Handbook: Basic and Intermediate Techniques for the Media Composer” which will have a 4th edition in December 2003. For 8 years he was the Principal Product Designer for Media Composer, Symphony and DS Nitris at Avid Technology. He
Based on his experience teaching countless seminars around the world on the Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress, Steve Bayes has written the most comprehensive manual for nonlinear digital editing on these Avid editing systems. 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. Written for the reader who already has a basic knowledge of the editing systems, this book moves beyond an introduction to the Media Composer and Avid Xpress and focuses on strategies, techniques, and troubleshooting. The Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress are the most widely used nonlinear editing systems by professionals in the film and video industries. This handbook is now
Good book for clarification & explanation. Poor organization jabberguy This is a great book for the beginner or intermediate Avid user. It may fill in pertinent details for those that are stumbling around and trying to understand concepts about technical issues with the Avid and video. While this book is a good companion and reference book it IS poorly organized and could improve the general layout. No summaries, few headings and sometimes cursory information on points which need exta-clari. The techniques are all there, but poorly organized. A Customer Let's face it, the best thing about this book is the fact that it is one of the only books that talks specifically about the Avid Interface. It sure beats taking the $900 classes Avid offers. However, since they still want you to take the classes, this book has the dificult job of giving information without being educational (the book even says that it should not take the place of the classes).The result is a book that h. "A personal chat with an experienced editor" according to A Customer. The real value of this book is the personal touch. How many boring dry text books are there on the market with no opinions and no experience related directly from the author? This book shows what really makes a good teacher and makes it all real and seems like I could do this.Clearly there is a lot of real world experience synthesized into an easy to read and logically presented format.I am completely astounded at the pr
From the Publisher Written for the reader who already has a basic knowledge of the editing systems, this book moves beyond an introduction to the Media Composer and Avid Xpress and focuses on strategies, techniques, and troubleshooting. The book also discusses frequently made mistakes, common technical problems and how they can be avoided. 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.