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Summary: jump start you way to NLE on Avid.
Review: Steve is a long time Avid editor and Avid employee. I worked with him years ago, while he was an online editor, just as this digital technology was maturing and gaining acceptance. His book is well written and is constantly revised to deal with the latest versions of the Avid software when needed. It's great for beginners and also as a reference for pros.
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Summary: The perfect guide for editors eager to learn more
Review: The Avid Handbook is exactly what I was looking for. Instead of taking you step by step thru editing procedures, or providing you with a laundry list of tips, this book takes a "non-linear" approach to suggesting ways to improve your skills. It is not meant for editors new to the Avid, but rather, for those established editors who want to streamline their editing methods. I strongly recommend this book to any intermediate or advanced editor as well as to owners and managers of small post facilities. This book is guaranteed to teach you something!
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Summary: The perfect guide for editors eager to learn more
Review: The Avid Handbook is exactly what I was looking for. Instead of taking you step by step thru editing procedures, or providing you with a laundry list of tips, this book takes a "non-linear" approach to suggesting ways to improve your skills. It is not meant for editors new to the Avid, but rather, for those established editors who want to streamline their editing methods. I strongly recommend this book to any intermediate or advanced editor as well as to owners and managers of small post facilities. This book is guaranteed to teach you something!
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Summary: The third edition has been comprehensively improved.
Review: The most complete and detailed book on Avid editing products has been rewritten in the third edition to be easier to read and include all the latest software versions. There is much more information about Windows NT including troubleshooting and Mac to NT workflow for onlining and Total Conform. There is detailed information about Symphony color correction and 24p. All sections have been revised to be more accessible with important procedures stepped out and summarized. This is the best Avid Handbook yet with over a year's worth of new material written and reorganized to be completely up to date. There are many important details that, as the senior designer, I have been teaching and explaining to groups around the country while the software was actually being developed.
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Summary: A personal chat with an experienced editor
Review: The real value of this book is the personal touch. How many boring dry text books are there on the market with no opinions and no experience related directly from the author? This book shows what really makes a good teacher and makes it all real and seems like I could do this. Clearly there is a lot of real world experience synthesized into an easy to read and logically presented format. I am completely astounded at the previous reviewer's take and can only think there is some other agenda going on here. How can someone so completely mistake a friendly, direct presentation with self indulgence? I wish all of my college textbooks had been this full of useful information and presented so unpretentiously.
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Summary: The second edition has some version and model updates.
Review: The second edition of the Avid Handbook features some minor revisions to update versions (7.1/2.1), terminology and some further explanation of complicated areas. The new edition also discusses Symphony (1.0), Mac and NT collaboration and Meridien video board features. This book is going into the fourth printing. It is recommended by many Avid training centers and I would suggest that it is helpful to anyone wanting to learn Avid editing systems whether you take a course or not. It is a reference for intermediate techniques and an overall discussion of non-linear issues on Avid editing systems. It is the most complete treatment of finishing on Avid that has been printed.
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Summary: Background on the Avid Handbook
Review: This book is culmination of presentations given over the last 4 years at Avid User Groups and Master Workshops. They have consistently gotten the highest marks for student feedback of any presentations Avid has sponsored. The material is based on courseware taught at 42 Avid Certified Education Centers worldwide and taught by 100's of trained instructors. This was the only book to sellout at NAB and has almost sold out the first printing of 2500 in 4 months although it is only sold on the Internet. It is the most up to date and in depth treatment of editing on the Avid Media Composer and Avid Xpress on the market today.
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Summary: Good book for clarification & explanation. Poor organization
Review: This is a great book for the beginner or intermediate Avid user. It may fill in pertinent details for those that are stumbling around and trying to understand concepts about technical issues with the Avid and video. While this book is a good companion and reference book it IS poorly organized and could improve the general layout. No summaries, few headings and sometimes cursory information on points which need exta-clarification. It presents a large amount of information without a clean and thoughtful approach to breaking that information up and making it digestible. The handbook, however, is the only book which presents a large amount of information on subjects which concern an Avid editor. I recommend buying it. I learned some things I didn't know and the beginning/intermediate user could benefit from the information on interface and technical issues
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Summary: Good book for clarification & explanation. Poor organization
Review: This is a great book for the beginner or intermediate Avid user. It may fill in pertinent details for those that are stumbling around and trying to understand concepts about technical issues with the Avid and video. While this book is a good companion and reference book it IS poorly organized and could improve the general layout. No summaries, few headings and sometimes cursory information on points which need exta-clarification. It presents a large amount of information without a clean and thoughtful approach to breaking that information up and making it digestible. The handbook, however, is the only book which presents a large amount of information on subjects which concern an Avid editor. I recommend buying it. I learned some things I didn't know and the beginning/intermediate user could benefit from the information on interface and technical issues
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Summary: An Authoritative and Up-to-Date Manual on Avid Editing
Review: This is an always useful, comprehensive, interestingly opinionated and well-written guide to Avid's industry-dominant editing products. Steve Bayes was a venerated Avid editing instructor and is now one of the people closest to Media Composer/MCX/Symphony's design and their future within the company. Bayes gives insider-quality instruction on the applications themselves as well as good rule-of-thumb advice about the editing process. If you buy one Avid book as an editor make it this one. Note: I have seen this book prove surprising helpful for long-time Avid editors.
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