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to Avid and Final Cut News Avid Filmmakers Make the Cut at 31st Annual Toronto Film Festival
‘Amazing Grace,’ ‘Breaking and Entering’ and Spike Lee’s ‘When the Levees Broke’ are among Avid-edited films chosen for the festival Avid Technology, Inc. today announced that a wide variety of Avid® customers from cutting-edge independent documentary filmmakers – like...05:23 PM September 20, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing Post Production | Read More
Avid and Supported Products
Once again Avid has released their support device list for all Avid Editor Products. This is a very important list of all of the decks and cameras that Avid has tested and qualifies for use with all Avid-editing products. The...05:24 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing | Read More
Firewire Deck Control Problems with Avid or Final Cut Pro
Many of the deck control problems you may encounter may have something to do with the firewire connection. A faulty cable can also cause intermittent problems. If have you have a high-end tape machine, chances are it may have...05:23 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Final Cut Non-Linear Editing | Read More
One Hour of Footage Equals How Many Gigabytes?
5 minutes of DV footage equals approximates 1 gigabyte of storage. Digital Heaven has a free widget, VideoSpace v1.0, For OSX Tiger that will allow you to calculate how much disk space your Final Cut Pro or Avid Xpress...05:02 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Final Cut Post Production | Read More
Avid and Creative Movie Editing
Suspense, violence, and obsession are often key themes associated with director Brian De Palmas films (Scarface, Blow Out, Dressed to Kill), and his latest feature, The Black Dahlia, is no exception. Based on the James Ellroy novel, the film...05:01 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing Success Stories | Read More
Creating a Subclip in Avid Express Pro
Subclipping is a very important part of the edting process. You create subclips to make shorter and more relivant clips to edit from. Here are the steps to take to create a subclip: 1. Load your clip into the...04:47 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing | Read More
Locking Your Items in Avid Express Pro
You have spent hours managing your media, making sub-clips, marking just the right in and out on your clips and then you delete the clip by accident. This horror can be avoided very easly in the Avid bin. Avid...04:44 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing | Read More
Back to Basics 2: Avid Express Pro Effects
When you already have one effect applied to a transition in a sequence, you can apply an effect to multiple transitions at the same time. How to apply an effect to multiple transitions in the Timeline: 1. If there...04:42 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing | Read More
Back to Basics: Avid Express Pro
During my latest training session I found that getting back to basics is very important! I wrote several notes to myself about the simple stumbling blocks my last student had and thought I would share them to remind myself...04:30 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing | Read More
Adding two effects to a clip in Avid Xpress Pro
Adding multiple effects within Avid Xpress Pro can be trickier than it seems. Most novice users will eventually figure out that if you hold down the alt-key, you can stack multiple effects on to of each other. This method...03:55 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing | Read More
Differences in Avid Xpress HD vs Media Composer Adrenaline
The basic software interface and editing functions are practically identical. A novice Avid editor would never know the difference between Avid Xpress HD and Media Composer Adrenaline. Therefore, the same Avid editing class is applicable to both software products....03:48 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing Post Production | Read More
Shooting for Avid and FCP Editing
If you are a pro, or just getting into editing and vidoeography, you need to be aware of a very important part of shooting your footage. You need to shoot, or have your camera operators shoot, for the edit....03:38 PM September 15, 2006 in Avid Final Cut Post Production | Read More
Moving Picture Electronic Services Exceeds Customer Expectations
Moving Picture Electronic Services is pleased to announce the completion of another year of exceeding customer expectations. Serving the film industry since 1987, Moving Picture has provided rental equipment ranging from Avid Meridian and Avid Adrenaline editing systems to state-of-the-art High Definition cameras and monitors, to sound an video assist packages, to walkie-talkies and communications gear. But let's let some of our customers speak on our behalf:
06:25 PM September 08, 2006 in Avid News Success Stories | Read More
Avid Customers Continue Dominance of Television’s Top Honors at 58th Annual Emmy Awards
Avid Technology, Inc. announced that customers using its industry-leading postproduction systems received more than 60 nominations across 12 Outstanding Picture Editing and Outstanding Program categories at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
05:57 PM August 29, 2006 in Avid | Read More
Corrupt files and Avid Express Pro (Revisited)
Corrupt files and Avid do not mix. The main culprit is turning your hard-drives on or off while your editing system is turned on. This has cost me dearly in the past but a different problem happened to me...05:52 PM August 29, 2006 in Avid Non-Linear Editing Post Production | Read More