Avid- Beginners to Operational

What You Will Learn:

•Nuts and Bolts - The hardware - What things are called - Starting a Project - What is a bin/clip/mediafile/sequence. The icons associated. Media offline-audio only media.

•Creating user profile-toolbars-workspaces

•Logging/Capture/Import. Bin discipline-naming-planning. Bin headings-statistics-customising.

•Text/Script and Frame views. Arranging frames - thumbnails - sorting by column.

•Play clips - mark in/out - Locators (disable popups) - Starting sequence.

•Splicing - Overwriting / Mark clip-Lifting/Extracting

•The esiting interface - getting to know it - what all those buttons do.

•Edit marks-rules for back/forward timing. Edit snapping-setting FF/RW

•More on the tool palette.

•The Timeline - Your wing mirrors at all times - zooming-enlarging-auto patch - UNDO-REDO

•Timeline views - wrap around - head view etc

•Hands-on footage will be Pal 625 dv shots from the 2003 peace march. A bin with 30-40 shots will be available.

•The brief is to create a 60 second sequence which might be used as a trailer to convey the atmosphere and what transpired during the day.

•Students will all have headphones and after the morning convering the tools, the rules and the indicators, students should be ready to start the brief.

•Depending on the average experience, 30-60 minutes will be spent on editing to the brief.

•The class will discuss questions arising out of the brief session.
•A pre-edited 60 trailer will be shown to stimulate more discussions/ideas.

•After the cut/seq/analysis - The class will begin trimming.