The Avid Handbook

The Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress are the most widely used nonlinear editing systems by professionals in the film and video industries. Based on his experience teaching countless seminars around the world on the Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress, Steve Bayes has written the most comprehensive manual for nonlinear digital editing on these Avid editing systems. This handbook is now being revised throughout to reflect recent upgrades to these systems.




Written for the reader who already has a basic knowledge of the editing systems, this book moves beyond an introduction to the Media Composer and Avid Xpress and focuses on strategies, techniques, and troubleshooting. The Avid Handbook covers the basics of working with effects, rendering, and graphics and discusses the more abstract issues of workflow and organization of different types of editing projects. The book also discusses frequently made mistakes, common technical problems and how they can be avoided.




Revised throughout to reflect system upgrades, including a new chapter on Symphony
For anyone with some experience with the Avid Media Composer or Avid Xpress who wants to expand their knowledge
A guide to strategies, common problems, and techniques while editing nonlinear digital video or film