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No matter what version you’re using, The Avid Media Composer Cookbook will be a helpful, useful resource. While the software continually matures, Avid is conscious of maintaining the core tools and functionality; and The Avid Media Composer Cookbook focuses on helping you master those core features. It’s also filled with a ton of tips, tricks, and straightforward explanations. That’s why it’s a beneficial guide for any version of Media Composer you’re using.
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"An investment that will pay for itself many times over in decreased frustration and increased time for creativity."
435 pages packed with Avid Media Composer editing essentials and far beyond, including tips, tricks, and explanations not found in other publications. Its "cookbook" (step-by-step), task-based approach (plus three appendices) will help users at all experience levels gain a deeper, more thorough, understanding of the software so they can spend less time dealing with technical and operational issues and, instead, focus on being creative. Much more information about the book is below.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
435 pages; Available in Paperback or E-Book — An expert and clear resource filled with highly effective "recipes" of easy to follow steps for those at all experience levels. Gain Avid Media Composer (and Avid Symphony) essentials and far beyond, including techniques, tips, tricks, and helpful explanations not found in other publications. Its 435 page task-based approach, and three informative appendices, will help editors at all experience levels gain a deeper, more thorough understanding of the software. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or jump to a specific "recipe" when needed. It will greatly aid in achieving mastery of the professional editing features that Avid Media Composer offers. You’ll learn not only how to perform a task or editing operation, but also why and how it works, in addition to what situations it’s useful. Gain exposure to options and methods that you never knew were available. The step-by-step recipes are packed with practical examples of time-saving tools and methods to get you working faster and more confidently so that you can spend less time dealing with technical and operational issues and instead focus on being creative. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project
Chapter 2: Customizing Your Work Environment
Chapter 3: Polishing Gems
Chapter 4: Creating Split Edits
Chapter 5: Maintaining and Regaining Sync
Chapter 6: Managing Your Media Files
Chapter 7: Mono and Stereo Audio Mixing
Chapter 8: Editing with Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode
Chapter 9: Output Tips and Tricks
Chapter 10: Time Savers in the Title Tool Purchasers of the book can download this chapter. See page 2 of the book for details.
Appendix A: Additional Tips, Tricks, and Explanations
Appendix B: Details on Trimming, Slipping, Sliding, and Segment Mode
Appendix C: Helpful Details about MultiCamera Editing
FROM BENJAMIN
Whether you're just beginning your use of Avid Media Composer or you've been using it for some time, I believe this book contains a great deal of useful, time-saving, and frustration-reducing information for users at all experience levels. Further, I believe that this book fills a particular gap in the Avid Media Composer publications that are currently available. Because the features and abilities of Avid Media Composer are so broad, encompassing editing, sound design, color correction, and visual effects, I decided to focus this book primarily on the core story-telling needs we have every day: essentially getting footage into the system, editing, and audio mixing. I first began learning Avid Media Composer in 1994 through trial and error. Nonlinear editing and the Internet were still in their infancy, and there weren't any books on Avid Media Composer, so I did my best to learn by reading the manual. My frustrations came when I'd read about a procedure or tool in the manual but it didn't include a definition of it or context when it would be useful. So, in addition to providing the step-by-step instructions, as Packt Cookbooks promise, I've included many definitions of industry and Media-Composer-specific terms, and explanations of why tools and functions behave as they do, along with situations when they would be helpful. In many ways, this is one of the books I wish I had had all those years ago. I'd also like to mention that some incredibly knowledgeable and accomplished people have helped me by reviewing this book's content while I was writing it: Michael Phillips, Oliver Peters, and Roger Shufflebottom. These very generous gentlemen are talented professionals who you may find yourself meeting, consulting, or working with in the future. I encourage you to read their biographies, which are included in this book, and you'll see how fortunate I was to have them on the team. Lastly, I truly hope you find this book to be helpful. |
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