Avid Editing: Kauffmann: 9780240805412: Book: Performing Arts: eCampus.com

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

Preface

xxi

Introduction

xxiii

Getting Started

(34)

The Editor's Job

(1)

Avid's Roots

(2)

Film and Video: The Old Way

(1)

Working with Picture and Sound

(1)

The Editing Process

(1)

Avid's Digital Approach

(8)

The Many Parts of Your System

(4)

Avid Editing Workflow

(3)

Turning on Your Avid

(2)

The Avid Interface on Your Computer

(10)

Toolset Menu

(2)

Project Window

(1)

Bins

(1)

Clips

(1)

Bin Views

(1)

SuperBin

(1)

Source Monitor or Pop-up Monitor

(1)

Record Monitor

(1)

The Timeline

(1)

Commands

(1)

The Keyboard

(1)

Three-Button Play

(1)

The Spacebar

(1)

The I and O Keys

(1)

Other Important Commands

(1)

Active Window

(1)

Practice

(1)

Starting an Editing Session

(5)

Making Your First Cut

(2)

Adding Shots to Your Sequence

(2)

Ending an Editing Session

(5)

Script for ``Wanna Trade''

(4)

Basic Editing

(20)

Editing Rules

(1)

Starting Your Second Editing Session

(1)

Basic Editing Skills

(2)

Marking Clips

(1)

Splice and Overwrite

(1)

Source Monitor Menu

(1)

The Timeline

(8)

Selecting and Deselecting Tracks

(1)

Navigating the Timeline

(1)

Home and End

(1)

Moving with the Mouse

(1)

Snapping to Cut Points

(1)

The Timeline Fast Menu

(1)

Scaling and Scrolling the Timeline

(2)

Additional Timeline Controls in the Media Composer

(1)

Enlarge or Reduce Tracks

(1)

Track Monitor Icons

(1)

Marking Clips in the Timeline

(1)

Duplicating a Sequence

(6)

Lift and Extract

(3)

Trim Shots Using Extract

(1)

It Takes Three Marks to Make an Edit

(1)

Like a Mantra

(1)

Using the Clipboard

(2)

Undo/Redo List

(1)

Suggested Assignments

(2)

The Project Window

(26)

Creating a Bin

(1)

All About Bins

(7)

Bin Views

(1)

Selecting Clips

(1)

Working in SuperBin Mode

(2)

Changing the Default View

(1)

Bin Headings

(2)

Moving Columns

(1)

Sorting

(1)

Frame View

(1)

Storyboard Technique

(2)

Starting a New Sequence

(1)

Creating a Storyboard

(1)

Drag-and-Drop Editing

(1)

Subclips

(1)

Deleting Sequences and Clips

(2)

Getting Folders

(1)

Settings: Have It Your Way

(11)

Kinds of Settings

(3)

Bin Settings

(1)

Interface

(2)

Keyboard Settings

(3)

Changing Command Buttons

(1)

The Media Composer's Composer Settings

(1)

Suggested Assignments

(1)

Command Palette Commands

(2)

Trimming

(22)

Trim Mode

(9)

Getting into Trim Mode

(1)

Media Composer Trim Modes

(1)

Lassoing the Transition

(1)

Leaving Trim Mode

(1)

Dual-Roller Trim Mode

(3)

Single-Roller Trim Mode

(3)

Trim Practice

(2)

Changing from Single-Roller to Dual-Roller Trim Mode

(1)

Media Composer Trim Keys

(1)

Adding Tracks for Trimming

(1)

Adding and Removing Rollers

(1)

Advanced Trim Mode Techniques

(6)

Trimming While Watching

(2)

Trim One Side, Then the Other

(1)

Using the Keyboard, Not the Mouse

(1)

Trim Settings

(1)

Dragging to a Mark

(1)

Picture and Sound Overlaps

(2)

Removing an Overlap

(1)

Sync Problems in Single-Roller Trim Mode

(1)

Enter Trim Mode on Selected Tracks

100

(1)

The Tilde Key

101

(1)

Trim Mode Review

101

(1)

Advanced Trim While Watching

102

(1)

Suggested Assignments

102

(1)

Menus

103

(34)

Screening a Work in Progress

103

(2)

Menus

105

(1)

Avid Xpress DV Menu

106

(1)

File Menu

106

(3)

Edit Menu

109

(2)

Bin Menu

111

(5)

Items Found in Media Composer Bin Menu and Not in Xpress Bin Menu

116

(1)

Clip Menu

117

(4)

Items Found in Media Composer Clip Menu and Not in Xpress Clip Menu

121

(1)

Output Menu (Media Composer Only)

122

(1)

Special Menu (Media Composer Only)

123

(2)

Tools Menu: Xpress and Media Composer

125

(4)

Toolset Menu

129

(2)

Windows Menu

131

(1)

Script Menu

132

(1)

Help Menu

132

(1)

Tracking and Monitor Menus

132

(3)

Tracking Menu

132

(2)

Monitor Menu

134

(1)

Mapping Menu Items

135

(1)

Suggested Assignments

136

(1)

Recording/Digitizing

137

(26)

Starting a New Project

137

(2)

Getting Your Tapes into the Computer

139

(1)

Tape Formats---Digital and Analog

139

(1)

The DV Format

140

(1)

Video Capture Boards

140

(1)

Connecting Your Equipment

141

(1)

Image Resolution

142

(2)

Digitizing Strategies

143

(1)

Xpress DV Storage Issues

144

(1)

Audio

144

(1)

Audio Sampling

144

(1)

Getting Organized

145

(2)

Remote/Local

146

(1)

Xpress DV---Connecting a Camera or Deck for the First Time

146

(1)

Organizing Your Bins

147

(1)

Opening the Record/Digitize Tool

147

(1)

Log or Digitize

147

(2)

Configuring the Record/Digitize Tool

149

(3)

If the Avid Says ``No Deck''

152

(1)

What Should Happen

152

(1)

Two Common Problems

153

(1)

Xpress DV Editors---Go to the Recording Process

153

(1)

Setting Video and Audio Levels

153

(3)

Audio Levels

154

(1)

Video Settings

155

(1)

The Recording Process

156

(4)

Logging

157

(1)

Batch Digitizing Your Logged Clips

158

(1)

Recording/Digitizing Each Clip As You Mark It

158

(1)

Recording/Digitizing ``On-the-Fly''

159

(1)

Digitizing Material without Timecode

160

(1)

Some Useful Settings

161

(1)

Suggested Assignments

162

(1)

Sound

163

(26)

The Importance of Sound

163

(1)

Track Monitors

164

(1)

Monitoring Only One Track

164

(1)

The Hollow Speaker Icon

165

(1)

Audio Scrub

165

(1)

Selecting the Tracks for Scrubbing

166

(1)

Adding Audio Tracks

166

(1)

Scrolling Your Tracks

166

(1)

Patching Audio Tracks

166

(2)

Deleting Tracks

168

(1)

Changing Audio Levels

168

(1)

Audio Mix Tool

169

(5)

Mixing Tool with Audio Tool

170

(1)

Speed Tips

171

(1)

Panning

171

(1)

Audio Clip Gain

171

(2)

Changing Volume and Panning on Multiple Clips

173

(1)

Audio Automation Gain

174

(3)

Placing Key Frames Manually

174

(2)

Placing Key Frames Automatically

176

(1)

Equalization

177

(4)

Setting the EQ

178

(1)

EQ Templates

178

(1)

Saving Your EQ Effect

179

(1)

When to Use the Different Audio Tools

180

(1)

What Level is Correct?

181

(1)

Waveforms

181

(1)

Using Trim Mode to Fine-Tune the Audio

182

(1)


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