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"Avid Editing" is a comprehensive guide covering Avid Xpress Pro, XPress Pro HD, and Xpress DV. Due to the similarity of Avid's interface across product lines, it is also relevant for Media Composer and other systems. Suitable for beginning editors or experienced editors new to the Avid, the book provides step-by-step instructions for hundreds of editing tasks in jargon-free terms. The chapters guide you 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. More than a software manual, this book delves into general editing techniques, principles, and pitfalls. The author is an experienced teacher who will help you master the Avid as well as improve your overall editing skills. This edition covers working with HD, the 16:9 widescreen, and the powerful Script Integration tool. In addition, there's new coverage of the issues facing indie filmmaker who is trying to decide how to go from the DV stage (shooting on mini-DV or DVCAM formats) to theatrical distribution.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Amazing - A must buy, 18 May 2006 By  kstcyr - See all my reviews I came across this book when I looked up Avid and bought it immediately. I had read all of the previous edition reviews before I purchased this book and bought it without reservation.I really felt like I grasped the concepts for each chapter before moving on. Mr. Kauffmann not only shows you the tools in the AVID system, but with every tool gives you the reason and purpose behind it.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   Even better than previous editions, 18 April 2008 By  eddytheowl (UK) - See all my reviews I read the first copy of this book when it was in it's first edition. The gap between Media Composer and Avid Xpress has narrowed since then and the present (third) edition is much more accurate if you're an Xpress user. The level at which this book is pitched is from introductory to intermediate and the author does an excellent job of finding the right balance. An advanced user will be using both experience and Avid's own documentation to reach those dizzying heights. But this book does an excellent job of teaching you everything you need to know from scratch. Particularly noteworthy are the chapters on Finishing (chapter 18), Finishing on Film (chapter 19), HD and HDV (chapter 16) and using the Script Integration tool (chapter 17). Chapter 16 really helps to clear up the mess of information that abounds about HD and HDV. At all times, the author is both frank (no shortage of opinions in this edition), informative and well-balanced in his remarks, giving a realistic picture of the job to hand. He's both independent and yet obviously biased towards the Avid software (as opposed to Final Cut Pro) - but he explains his reasons why and they seem good to me. For PAL countries, the book occasionally slips up and fails to inform the user of the correct options or choices - lazily assuming NTSC. This means that PAL users need to work a bit harder researching the correct settings (e.g. page 325 mentions 29.97 frames per second but not 25 fps; page 273 only discusses NTSC television and not PAL). The menu options sometimes differ from what the book says - but searching the menus does help (e.g on page 358, the Decompose tool in found in the Bin menu on Avid Xpress Pro HD and not in the Clip menu). When this happens, there's a tendency to think Xpress is a cut-down version of Media Composer. In practice I found Xpress supported everything that's in the book. The author never fails to tell you what you really need to know to do the job properly and get started. So, in short - a fantastic book with a great CD contain