AVID Tutorial

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malmsteen

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Hey guys.
I have been using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and decided to try Avid Xpress.
I currently have Avid Xpress Pro HD 5.15, and I have discovered that it's quite different than Premiere and FCP.
Do you know if there is any good tutorial book that you can recommend? or one of those Online Freebee tutorials that are good?
There are so many books costing from 20 bucks to 79, but I dont know which one to buy.
Please Help!!! :undecided
 
The user manual that came with Xpress Pro HD 5.1.5 isn't too shabby. And you should already have that one....

Otherwise, the books actually sold by Avid are good for training. The DVDs that Avid puts out are pretty good too.
 
I like the Quick Pro book on Avid Xpress Pro. It's an excellent reference manual that should get you mostly up to speed. Also, the "Edit Like A Pro With Avid Xpress Pro" DVD tutorial is quite good as a visual learning tool.

-DC-
 
Oh Thanks guys!

By the way, is Xpress pro and Xpress pro HD the same thing?
Obviously one does HD but the other one doesn't.
But is the interface and features the same?

Because I have Xpress pro HD, but only books available are Xpress Pro books without HD.
Can I still refer to those books?
 
Yes you can, HD adds the HD resolutuions such as DVCPRO 100 and DNxHD, but interface and feature set will mostly be the same -
 
I've found this book useful:

The Avid Handbook : Intermediate Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems (Paperback) by Steve Bayes

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_1/002-0993489-8624817?v=glance&s=books

Offers some great details not just on on how to, but why..., what to do when..., and how to recover from... etc.

The only drawbacks I've found are (a) Xpress is a few releases further along, and (b) you'll learn about some of great features in Avid's higher-end editing systems -- and long for them (e.g. ripple color-correct (if that's the right name for it)).
 
You can download the tutorial of Avid Xpress DV 3.5 on thel site of AVID. The tutorial take you step by step and teach you how to edit a sequence into the time, seeking into a sequence by entering the timecode, how do to a two points edit, splice, add-edit, etc.

But, I do not remember the URL. When I will found it, I will write it in this thread!

ElvisNTSC
 
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