Benjamin Hershleder - Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook

Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook

Год: 2012
Автор: Benjamin Hershleder
Жанр: CG Videoediting
Издательство: Packt Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 978-1-84969-300-4
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: Отсканированные страницы
Интерактивное оглавление: Нет
Количество страниц: 422
Описание: Over 160 highly effective and practical recipes to help beginning and intermediate users get the most from Avid Media Composer 6 editing.
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-red ucing information for users at all experience levels. Further, I believe 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 say; 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 bestto learn by reading the manual. My frustrations came when I'd read abouta procedure or tool in the manual, but it didn't include a definition of it or context for when it would be useful. 80, in addition to providing the step-by-step instructions, as cookbooks published by Packt Publishing promise, I've included many definitions of industry and Media Com poser-specific term s, explanations of why tools and functions behave as they do, and 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 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 whom 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.

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Preface 1
Cha gter 1: Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Proiect 5
Introd uction 6
A strategy for project organization at the desktop level 6
Understanding Media creation settings 7
Mixing frame rates 9
Tape capture tip: Adding Markers while Capturing 12
Tape capture tip: Making subclips while Capturing 13
Logging clips tip: Logging from the keyboard 14
Logging clips tip: Keeping the Capture Tool active after logging a clip 15
Quickly calculating total duration of clips (or any items in a bin) 16
Combining available drive space and/or controlling where media is stored 17
Making sure your Batch capture continues without you 19
Modifying clips before capture 19
Modifying clips after capture: Adding tracks 20
Modifying clips after capture: Deleting tracks 22
Capturing and editing at the same time 24
Preparing to use AMA (Avid Media Access): Getting the plug-ins 25
AMA (Avid Media Access) Linking 27
Getting the AMA file's image to display as desired 31
Consolidating (copying) AMA Master clips 34
Transcoding AMA linked clips before beginning to edit 36
Transcoding AMA Master Clips after editing has begun 38
Consolidating an AMA sequence or subclips 39
Transcoding an AMA sequence 41
Importing stills and video files such as QuickTime 42
Importing audio 48
Adjusting audio levels before editing 49