Avid editing : a guide for beginning and intermediate users / by Sam Kauffmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kauffmann, Sam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avid Xpress.

Media composer.

Video tapes--Editing--Data processing.

Video tapes.

Motion pictures--Editing--Data processing.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Focal Press, [2003]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Avid Editing is a comprehensive guide covering nonlinear editing on the Avid Xpress DV, Avid Media Composer, and Avid Xpress on both Windows and Macintosh platforms. Suitable for beginning or experienced editors new to Avid, the book provides step-by-step instructions for hundreds of editing tasks in jargon-free terms. The chapters are organized in a logical progression that will help the beginner to master the material, while providing the intermediate user with a thorough review of techniques as well as important new information. This new edition has been expanded and now includes a chapter on 16:9 Widescreen Editing, explaining how Avid can help the reader create material for current and future widescreen television formats. Also new is the chapter on Script Integration, a powerful tool now available on almost all of Avid's products. The accompanying DVD contains all the video and audio clips you'll need to edit two dramatic scenes: "Wanna Trade" and "Gaffer's Delight." The first is the easier of the two projects and is designed to get the reader editing by the first chapter. The second is a more complex scene, shot in the 16:9 widescreen format, and it gives the reader hands-on practice with widescreen editing and script integration. A shooting script is also included on the DVD.

Contents:

The Editor's Job 1

Avid's Roots 2

Avid's Digital Approach 4

Turning on Your Avid 12

The Avid Interface on Your Computer 14

Starting an Editing Session 25

Ending an Editing Session 30

Chapter 2 Basic Editing 35

Editing Rules 35

Starting Your Second Editing Session 36

Basic Editing Skills 36

Source Monitor Menu 38

The Timeline 39

Duplicating a Sequence 47

Chapter 3 The Project Window 55

Creating a Bin 55

All About Bins 56

Storyboard Technique 63

Subclips 65

Deleting Sequences and Clips 66

Settings: Have It Your Way 68

Command Palette Commands 79

Chapter 4 Trimming 81

Trim Mode 82

Advanced Trim Mode Techniques 93

Sync Problems in Single-Roller Trim Mode 99

Enter Trim Mode on Selected Tracks 100

The Tilde Key 101

Trim Mode Review 101

Advanced Trim While Watching 102

Chapter 5 Menus 103

Screening a Work in Progress 103

Avid Xpress DV Menu 106

File Menu 106

Edit Menu 109

Bin Menu 111

Items Found in Media Composer Bin Menu and Not in Xpress Bin Menu 116

Clip Menu 117

Items Found in Media Composer Clip Menu and Not in Xpress Clip Menu 121

Output Menu (Media Composer Only) 122

Special Menu (Media Composer Only) 123

Tools Menu: Xpress and Media Composer 125

Toolset Menu 129

Windows Menu 131

Script Menu 132

Help Menu 132

Tracking and Monitor Menus 132

Mapping Menu Items 135

Chapter 6 Recording/Digitizing 137

Starting a New Project 137

Getting Your Tapes into the Computer 139

Video Capture Boards 140

Connecting Your Equipment 141

Image Resolution 142

Audio 144

Getting Organized 145

Opening the Record/Digitize Tool 147

Log or Digitize 147

Configuring the Record/Digitize Tool 149

If the Avid Says "No Deck" 152

What Should Happen 152

Two Common Problems 153

Xpress DV Editors

Go to the Recording Process 153

Setting Video and Audio Levels 153

The Recording Process 156

Digitizing Material without Timecode 160

Chapter 7 Sound 163

The Importance of Sound 163

Track Monitors 164

Audio Scrub 165

Adding Audio Tracks 166

Scrolling Your Tracks 166

Patching Audio Tracks 166

Deleting Tracks 168

Changing Audio Levels 168

Audio Mix Tool 169

Audio Automation Gain 174

Equalization 177

Waveforms 181

Using Trim Mode to Fine-Tune the Audio 182

Other Audio Techniques to Fix Problems 183

Timeline Views 185

Media Composer: Rearrange Tracks 186

Setting Up Your Tracks 186

Chapter 8 Advanced Editing 189

Segment Mode Editing 189

Trimming in Two Directions 197

Match Frame 200

Slipping and Sliding 200

Media Composer and Xpress 204

Chapter 9 Titles 209

Opening the Title Tool 209

Choosing a Background 210

Creating Your First Title 211

Shadows 212

Saving Titles 213

Cutting Titles into Your Sequence 213

Colored Titles 219

Blending a Title 220

Creating Title Style Sheets 221

Soft Shadows 222

Glowing Titles 223

Drawing Objects 224

Titles with Objects 225

Grouping and Locking 226

Transparency 227

Alignment Menu 227

Lines and Arrows 227

Other Buttons 228

Rolling Titles 228

Crawling Titles 229

Advanced Titles 230

Chapter 10 Effects 231

Kinds of Effects 232

Effect Palette 232

Applying an Effect 233

Colored Dots 236

Third-Party Plug-In Effects 236

Effect Editor 237

Effect Quick Review 244

Deleting Effects 244

Adding Dissolves 245

Saving an Effect as a Template 245

Freeze Frames 246

Motion Effects 246

Rendering 248

Waiting for Effects to Render 249

Nesting 250

Color Correction 252

A World of Effect 254

Chapter 11 Saving Your Work 255

If It's a Computer, It Will Crash 255

Backing Up 256

After the Crash 258

Saving User Settings 258

Copy User Settings to a CD or Zip Disk 258

The Attic 259

Retrieving a File from the Attic 260

Deleting Bins 261

Backing Up Media Files 261

Chapter 12 Keeping in Sync 265

Sync Problems 265

The Source of Your Problems 266

Sync Break Indicators 266

Many Tracks Mean Many Sync Problems 267

Locators 268

Editing Tricks to Stay in Sync 270

Sync Locks 273

Locking Tracks 277

Chapter 13 Importing and Exporting 279

Types of Files 279

Importing 280

Importing a Picture File 281

Computer versus Television 283

Import Options 284

Import Practice 287

Importing Other File Types 291

Exporting 292

Export Dialog Box 293

Exporting a QuickTime Movie 296

Chapter 14 16:9 Widescreen Television 305

Where the Numbers Come From 305

Standard NTSC Video

Not Big Enough 305

The Root of the Format Problem 306

Your Widescreen Choices 307

Anamorphic Photography 309

Practice Footage 312

16:9 Avid Editing 312

Multiple Formats 314

Go Wide 319

Chapter 15 Script Integration 321

Hollywood-Style Editing 321

Using Two Monitors 322

Naming Clips 323

Getting the Script 323

Linking Clips to the Script 325

Adding Takes 326

Changing the Slate 328

Review 329

Adjusting Take Lines 329

Selecting Multiple Takes 330

Moving Slates 330

Deleting Takes and Slates 330

Loading and Playing Takes 331

The Tab Key 331

Placing Script Marks 333

Playing Marked Takes 335

A Faster Way to Place Script Marks 336

The Fastest Way 337

Moving Script Marks 337

Looking at Your Coverage 337

Page and Scene Numbers 338

Find Script 339

Off-Screen Dialog 339

One Take Line Only 340

Color Lines 341

Other Menu Items 342

A Select Few 343

Chapter 16 Finishing 347

Paths to the Finish Line 347

Room on the Media Drives 348

Xpress DV Users Can Skip Ahead 351

Blowing It All Away 351

Deleting Your Low-Resolution Media 351

Preparing to Redigitize Your Sequence 353

Redigitizing Your Sequence 353

Timecode Breaks 354

Decompose 354

Replacing Your Audio Tracks 355

Recreating Title Media 355

Rendering Your Effects 355

Checking Audio Levels 356

Checking For Offline Media 356

Outputting to Tape 356

Connecting the Avid Cables to the Tape Deck 358

Manual Recording or Crash Recording to Tape 358

Digital Cut 360

Insert Editing 362

Edit Decision List (EDL) 363

Output to DVD 369

Chapter 17 Finishing on Film 373

Why Film? 373

Film and the Avid 373

The Film-to-Tape Transfer 374

Finishing on Film or Finishing on Tape 374

Hire a Negative Cutter First 374

The $64,000 Question 375

The 2-3 Pull-Down 375

It's Really 29.97 376

Keycode and Timecode 376

Problems with the Transfer 378

Identifying the First Frame with a Punch 379

Checking the Numbers 379

Types of Timecode 379

Work Order to Your Lab 380

Clean Video Copy 381

The Cut List 381

Telecine Log File 382

Setting Up Your Avid 383

Logging Keycode by Hand 385

Phantom Master Clip 385

Sound and the Avid 386

Nagra 4.2 387

Field Recording with a Timecode DAT 387

Slowing Down the DAT during Digitizing 387

One Bin Per Audio Tape 388

Syncing Rushes 388

Dupe Detection 389

Effects 390

Add Edits 390

SMPTE Leader and Beep 390

Opening the Cut List Tool 391

"Matchback Shortened the Tail of the Clip by 1 Frame" 394

Mix and Optical Sound Track 394

Checking Sync 395

It Works 395

Next Stop, Cannes 395

Chapter 18 Present and Future 397

Information on the Internet 398

Getting a Job as an Avid Editor 398

Avid's Future 400.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0240805410

OCLC:

51022877