Editing Digital Video: The Complete Creative and Technical Guide

This title includes CD-ROM with footage you can use to practice editing! It includes: a digital way to cut video; superb solutions to edit your video; for the amateur, turn your family videos into stories; and for the professional, learn to cut your films using the latest digital video tips and tricks. Here, a pair of award-winning professionals share their insights. "Editing Digital Video" explains how to use any tool - from iMovie or Premiere to appliances like Casablanca and Screenplay or professional systems such as Avid, Discreet, Media 100 - to turn your imagination into results fast. This title enables you to quickly acquire the skills you need to: edit commercials, documentaries, feature films, and music videos; work with video, DVD, and Web-based media; and take advantage of proven techniques from the pros. Anyone from amateurs to students to professionals can learn to edit and tell compelling stories using the results-oriented approach in "Editing Digital Video". Plus, a companion CD-ROM with footage and exercises lets you practice on any system.
With clear illustrations and a light touch, "Editing Digital Video" will guide you through the finer points of: navigating the desktop; basic and advanced editing; creating impact; organizing projects; keys, mattes, and layering; titles and effects; audio; digital video formats; postproduction workflow; editing terminology; keyboard shortcuts; and much, much more! With "Editing Digital Video", you'll finally unleash your creativity. Learn more in one session than you would from any user manual. This is a refreshingly realistic approach!