Avid Editing ─ A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users

Completely updated for current HD and HR workflows, Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users blends the art and aesthetics of video editing with technical, hands-on instruction. Appropriate for beginners and intermediate users who need to refresh their knowledge of essential postproduction techniques, this fully revamped Sixth Edition is also an excellent tool for editors coming to Avid from other nonlinear editing platforms. Topics covered include trimming, audio, effects, titles, color correction, customization, inputting, and outputting; and a robust companion website features professionally shot footage, allowing readers to work alongside the lessons taught in the book.

Sam Kauffmann was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts—Film in 2009. He teaches film production and motion picture editing at Boston University. He recently completed a film that exposes the many biases inherent in the SAT and ACT tests, called Act Out Against SAT, and his film Kids Living with Slim (2010), about African children who are HIV positive, won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. His previous film, Massacre at Murambi (2007), was aired on the PBS series P.O.V. It won top prizes and was screened at festivals all over the world. In 2004, he was a Fulbright Scholar, teaching production at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. In 2006 he was a Fulbright Senior Specialist teaching at the National University of Rwanda.