Preface p. xxi
Introduction p. xxiii
Getting Started p. 1
The Editor's Job p. 1
Avid's Roots p. 2
Avid's Digital Approach p. 4
Turning on Your Avid p. 12
The Avid Interface on Your Computer p. 14
Practice p. 24
Starting an Editing Session p. 25
Ending an Editing Session p. 30
Basic Editing p. 35
Editing Rules p. 35
Starting Your Second Editing Session p. 36
Basic Editing Skills p. 36
Source Monitor Menu p. 38
The Timeline p. 39
Duplicating a Sequence p. 47
Suggested Assignments p. 53
The Project Window p. 55
Creating a Bin p. 55
All About Bins p. 56
Storyboard Technique p. 63
Subclips p. 65
Deleting Sequences and Clips p. 66
Settings: Have It Your Way p. 68
Suggested Assignments p. 79
Command Palette Commands p. 79
Trimming p. 81
Trim Mode p. 82
Trim Practice p. 91
Advanced Trim Mode Techniques p. 93
Sync Problems in Single-Roller Trim Mode p. 99
Enter Trim Mode on Selected Tracks p. 100
The Tilde Key p. 101
Trim Mode Review p. 101
Advanced Trim While Watching p. 102
Suggested Assignments p. 102
Menus p. 103
Screening a Work in Progress p. 103
Menus p. 105
Avid Xpress DV Menu p. 106
File Menu p. 106
Edit Menu p. 109
Bin Menu p. 111
Items Found in Media Composer Bin Menu and Not in Xpress Bin Menu p. 116
Clip Menu p. 117
Items Found in Media Composer Clip Menu and Not in Xpress Clip Menu p. 121
Output Menu (Media Composer Only) p. 122
Special Menu (Media Composer Only) p. 123
Tools Menu: Xpress and Media Composer p. 125
Toolset Menu p. 129
Windows Menu p. 131
Script Menu p. 132
Help Menu p. 132
Tracking and Monitor Menus p. 132
Mapping Menu Items p. 135
Suggested Assignments p. 136
Recording/Digitizing p. 137
Starting a New Project p. 137
Getting Your Tapes into the Computer p. 139
Video Capture Boards p. 140
Connecting Your Equipment p. 141
Image Resolution p. 142
Audio p. 144
Getting Organized p. 145
Opening the Record/Digitize Tool p. 147
Log or Digitize p. 147
Configuring the Record/Digitize Tool p. 149
If the Avid Says "No Deck" p. 152
What Should Happen p. 152
Two Common Problems p. 153
Xpress DV Editors--Go to the Recording Process p. 153
Setting Video and Audio Levels p. 153
The Recording Process p. 156
Digitizing Material without Timecode p. 160
Some Useful Settings p. 161
Suggested Assignments p. 162
Sound p. 163
The Importance of Sound p. 163
Track Monitors p. 164
Audio Scrub p. 165
Adding Audio Tracks p. 166
Scrolling Your Tracks p. 166
Patching Audio Tracks p. 166
Deleting Tracks p. 168
Changing Audio Levels p. 168
Audio Mix Tool p. 169
Audio Automation Gain p. 174
Equalization p. 177
Waveforms p. 181
Using Trim Mode to Fine-Tune the Audio p. 182
Other Audio Techniques to Fix Problems p. 183
Timeline Views p. 185
Media Composer: Rearrange Tracks p. 186
Setting Up Your Tracks p. 186
Suggested Assignments p. 187
Advanced Editing p. 189
Segment Mode Editing p. 189
Trimming in Two Directions p. 197
Match Frame p. 200
Slipping and Sliding p. 200
Media Composer and Xpress p. 204
Suggested Assignments p. 207
Titles p. 209
Opening the Title Tool p. 209
Choosing a Background p. 210
Creating Your First Title p. 211
Shadows p. 212
Saving Titles p. 213
Cutting Titles into Your Sequence p. 213
Colored Titles p. 219
Blending a Title p. 220
Creating Title Style Sheets p. 221
Soft Shadows p. 222
Glowing Titles p. 223
Drawing Objects p. 224
Titles with Objects p. 225
Grouping and Locking p. 226
Transparency p. 227
Alignment Menu p. 227
Lines and Arrows p. 227
Other Buttons p. 228
Rolling Titles p. 228
Crawling Titles p. 229
Advanced Titles p. 230
Suggested Assignments p. 230
Effects p. 231
Kinds of Effects p. 232
Effect Palette p. 232
Applying an Effect p. 233
Colored Dots p. 236
Third-Party Plug-In Effects p. 236
Effect Editor p. 237
Effect Quick Review p. 244
Deleting Effects p. 244
Adding Dissolves p. 245
Saving an Effect as a Template p. 245
Freeze Frames p. 246
Motion Effects p. 246
Rendering p. 248
Waiting for Effects to Render p. 249
Nesting p. 250
Color Correction p. 252
A World of Effect p. 254
Suggested Assignments p. 254
Saving Your Work p. 255
If It's a Computer, It Will Crash p. 255
Backing Up p. 256
After the Crash p. 258
Saving User Settings p. 258
Copy User Settings to a CD or Zip Disk p. 258
The Attic p. 259
Retrieving a File from the Attic p. 260
Deleting Bins p. 261
Backing Up Media Files p. 261
Suggested Assignments p. 263
Keeping in Sync p. 265
Sync Problems p. 265
The Source of Your Problems p. 266
Sync Break Indicators p. 266
Many Tracks Mean Many Sync Problems p. 267
Locators p. 268
Editing Tricks to Stay in Sync p. 270
Sync Locks p. 273
Locking Tracks p. 277
Suggested Assignments p. 278
Importing and Exporting p. 279
Types of Files p. 279
Importing p. 280
Importing a Picture File p. 281
Computer versus Television p. 283
Import Options p. 284
Import Practice p. 287
Importing Other File Types p. 291
Exporting p. 292
Export Dialog Box p. 293
Exporting a QuickTime Movie p. 296
Suggested Assignments p. 304
16:9 Widescreen Television p. 305
Where the Numbers Come From p. 305
Standard NTSC Video--Not Big Enough p. 305
The Root of the Format Problem p. 306
Your Widescreen Choices p. 307
Anamorphic Photography p. 309
Practice Footage p. 312
16:9 Avid Editing p. 312
Multiple Formats p. 314
Go Wide p. 319
Suggested Assignments p. 319
Script Integration p. 321
Hollywood-Style Editing p. 321
An Example p. 322
Using Two Monitors p. 322
Naming Clips p. 323
Getting the Script p. 323
Getting Started p. 325
Linking Clips to the Script p. 325
Adding Takes p. 326
Changing the Slate p. 328
Review p. 329
Adjusting Take Lines p. 329
Selecting Multiple Takes p. 330
Moving Slates p. 330
Deleting Takes and Slates p. 330
Loading and Playing Takes p. 331
The Tab Key p. 331
Placing Script Marks p. 333
Playing Marked Takes p. 335
A Faster Way to Place Script Marks p. 336
The Fastest Way p. 337
Moving Script Marks p. 337
Looking at Your Coverage p. 337
Page and Scene Numbers p. 338
Find Script p. 339
Off-Screen Dialog p. 339
One Take Line Only p. 340
Color Lines p. 341
Other Menu Items p. 342
A Select Few p. 343
Finishing p. 347
Paths to the Finish Line p. 347
Room on the Media Drives p. 348
Xpress DV Users Can Skip Ahead p. 351
Blowing It All Away p. 351
Deleting Your Low-Resolution Media p. 351
Preparing to Redigitize Your Sequence p. 353
Redigitizing Your Sequence p. 353
Timecode Breaks p. 354
Decompose p. 354
Replacing Your Audio Tracks p. 355
Recreating Title Media p. 355
Rendering Your Effects p. 355
Checking Audio Levels p. 356
Checking For Offline Media p. 356
Outputting to Tape p. 356
Connecting the Avid Cables to the Tape Deck p. 358
Manual Recording or Crash Recording to Tape p. 358
Digital Cut p. 360
Insert Editing p. 362
Edit Decision List (EDL) p. 363
Output to DVD p. 369
Suggested Assignments p. 371
Finishing on Film p. 373
Why Film? p. 373
Film and the Avid p. 373
The Film-to-Tape Transfer p. 374
Finishing on Film or Finishing on Tape p. 374
Hire a Negative Cutter First p. 374
The $64,000 Question p. 375
The 2-3 Pull-Down p. 375
It's Really 29.97 p. 376
Keycode and Timecode p. 376
Problems with the Transfer p. 378
Identifying the First Frame with a Punch p. 379
Checking the Numbers p. 379
Types of Timecode p. 379
Work Order to Your Lab p. 380
Clean Video Copy p. 381
The Cut List p. 381
Telecine Log File p. 382
Setting Up Your Avid p. 383
Logging Keycode by Hand p. 385
Phantom Master Clip p. 385
Sound and the Avid p. 386
Nagra 4.2 p. 387
Field Recording with a Timecode DAT p. 387
Slowing Down the DAT during Digitizing p. 387
One Bin Per Audio Tape p. 388
Syncing Rushes p. 388
Dupe Detection p. 389
Effects p. 390
Add Edits p. 390
SMPTE Leader and Beep p. 390
Opening the Cut List Tool p. 391
"Matchback Shortened the Tail of the Clip by 1 Frame" p. 394
Mix and Optical Sound Track p. 394
Checking Sync p. 395
It Works p. 395
Next Stop, Cannes p. 395
Present and Future p. 397
Where Do You Go From Here? p. 397
Information on the Internet p. 398
Getting a Job as an Avid Editor p. 398
Other Avid Products p. 399
Avid's Future p. 400
Index p. 401
DVD-ROM Instructions p. 407