The Avid Handbook

Intermediate Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems

Steve Bayes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2004 | 4th New edition
Focal Press (Verlag)
978-0-240-80553-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Aims to teach production procedures. This book includes intermediate techniques for the Avid Xpress, Avid Xpress DV, Media Composer, and Symphony. It places an emphasis on workflow strategies, configuration, troubleshooting, and administration. It helps maximize creative time and eliminate downtime.

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The Avid Handbook caters to video editors bordering on intermediate who are ready to unleash the full power of the Avid but don't know where to start. Rather than focusing on arcane keystrokes, the book teaches production procedures, the real key for getting a job done. Time saving, shortcuts, and strategies are emphasized, and the author tackles such real-world problems as set up, keeping a facility running, minimizing crashing, and troubleshooting head on. Bayes has helped thousands to avoid downtime and maximize creative time.

Autor

Bayes is the Product Manager for Final Cut Pro at Apple. For 8 years he was the Principal Product Designer for Media Composer, Symphony and DS Nitris at Avid Technology. Steve has specified the design of Avid products based on his years of editing, instructing and interviewing Avid users. 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. 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 has also written and developed several advanced Avid classes including the Master Editor Workshop. Previously, Steve was Senior Editor at several production companies in Boston, Massachusetts and edited in the New England market for ten years.

Inhalt

Talking to the Machine; Workflow of a Nonlinear Project; Intermediate Techniques; Administration of the Avid; Long Format and Improving System Performance; Importing and Exporting; Introduction to Effects; Preparing for Linear Online; Overview for Finishing Offline to Online: Finishing Strategies; Macintosh and Windows: Working Together; Finishing on Symphony; Troubleshooting; Nonlinear Video Assistants

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.2004
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 184 x 260 mm
• Gewicht: 862 g
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung
• ISBN-10: 0-240-80553-4 / 0240805534
• ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80553-5 / 9780240805535
• Zustand: Neuware