Covers topics including batch capture, contrast and focus, duration controls, special effects, and rolling text. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Whether youa re a beginning video editor or a professional producer, now you can master the worlda s leading digital video software application. In this comprehensive guide to the latest release of Adobe Premiere Pro, ita s all here -- the basics of capturing, editing, and outputting digital video, as well as advanced techniques for professionally integrating music, narration, and special effects...read more

A guide to advanced editing using Final Cut Pro 4 covers such topics as creating transitions, motion and filter effects, enhancing colors, creating soundtracks, and performing offline editing of film and 24p HD video.

Presents lessons that focus on the advanced features of Final Cut Pro 5.

This text is for beginning to intermediate users of Avid Xpress, Xpress DV, or Media Composer. These digital editing systems offer a tremendous number of tools that open up myriad creative possibilities for the film and videomaker, but are as a result difficult to master. The chapters guide readers 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.The new edition is updated to reflect the latest versions of Avid software, including an emphasis on the Xpress DV for Mac and Windows. There is also new material on Script Integration, a powerful tool now available on almost all of Avid's products, and a new chapter on how Avid can help the reader create material for current and future widescreen television formats. ·A beginning text designed for anyone new to the Avid·Complete step-by-step instructions assume no prior knowledge·Companion DVD contains footage from a narrative scene, so students can begin editing immediately

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The Avid Handbook caters to video editors bordering on intermediate who are ready to unleash the full power of the Avid but don't know where to start. Rather than focusing on arcane keystrokes, the book teaches production procedures, the real key for getting a job done...read more

Provides instructions on video editing using Avid, covering such topics as capturing from DV, editing clips into sequences, importing graphics and audio, and creating transitional effects.

Product Description: The On the Spot series delivers immediate solutions to the reader with a concise presentation of over 350 expert techniques for working proficiently with the respective application. Avid Xpress Pro and DV On the Spot provides experienced editors with complete coverage of both applications' capabilities, and less experienced users get tips and tricks to enhance their productivity and creativity...read more

Describes methods of capturing footage, trimming an edit, navigating the timeline, mixing audio, adding dissolves, creating titles, saving work, and outputting completed sequences to tape or DVD using Avid Xpress Pro.

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Product Description: Use color to improve your storytelling, deliver critical emotional cues, and add impact to you videos. This book shows you how to analyze color correction problems and solve them- whatever NLE or plugin you use. Experienced editors and colorists in their own right, the authors also include the wisdom of top colorists, directors of photography, and color scientists to deliver this insightful and authoritative presentation of the theory and practice of color correction...read more

Psychic Sunshine Meadows makes a dark discovery in the woods... After clearing her name as the prime suspect in a murder, Sunny Meadows hopes she can finally enjoy some serenity in the idyllic town of Divinity in upstate New York. She'd also like a second chance with Detective Mitch Stone. But when Mitch's gorgeous ex-girlfriend Isabel Gonzales shows up, Sunny's not sure she can compete. Then Isabel mysteriously disappears. When the police turn to Sunny for help, her visions lead to the discovery of Isabel's corpse in the woods. Before she died, Isabel scrawled a message in the dirt implicating Mitch in her murder. Now Sunny must help the man she's falling in love with as she sets out to find the real killer. But this time Sunny's clairvoyant abilities might not save her--as what she doesn't see "can "hurt her...

Product Description: This book teaches readers how to put a working system together by showing them the equipment available to them, and what it can do. Readers will learn how to create video products using the computer as an editing tool, and how to refine sound and combine graphics with video...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explains how to use a PC and camcorder to edit and create videos and digital effects and is designed for those who have a good understanding of how personal computers work and want to learn how video fits into the bigger picture. Guides the reader through the creation of a customized digital video system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explains step-by-step how to create & present digital video for multimedia by providing real examples & outlining hardware & software requirements. Paper. CD-ROM included. DLC: Video tapes - Editing - Data processing. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This definitive book/CD-ROM package gives you highly accessible, one-stop information, tutorials, and software for creating, editing, and integrating your own digital video for multimedia, corporate marketing, home video specials, employee or customer training and information, public relations, advertising, and broadcast...read more