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MillimeterTraining for Avid Editors
Mar 26, 2004 12:00 PM, By Stephen Porter
Jeff Greenberg
A wide array of Avid-specific sessions offers tips on everything from editing shortcuts to the use of third-party titling tools
Avid users will get ample opportunity to raise their editing skills to new heights at the NAB Post|Production World Conference. Three of the 25 tracks being offered at the conference are devoted to Avid-specific topics—Avid DNA Editing, Type on Avid, and Avid|DS Editing and Compositing.
Jeff Greenberg, the Technical Chair for these three tracks and the principle instructor for Future Media Concepts, says the sessions in these tracks have been carefully constructed to provide attendees with a maximum amount of practical, useful information.
"These are all very concentrated, solution-driven seminars that are filled with little hints, keyboard tricks, and techniques you wouldn't normally come across in a class or tutorial," he says. "These are nuggets of information drawn from experienced users, user groups, and online forums that can really help you streamline your workflow and enhance your creativity."
 At least three Avid sessions will be re-delivered in Spanish during the Spanish track. |
One of Greenberg's favorite sessions is "We'll Fix it in Post: An Avid Editor's Guide to Color Correction," scheduled for 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, April 17.
"Every shooter makes mistakes, and color correction is all about making unusable shots usable," he says. "Every editor needs to know how to do things like fix white balance, fine-tune exposure when pictures look flat, and do shot-to-shot correction. If you have to color-correct your own shows but you don't spend five days a week color correcting, you will learn half a dozen little things you never knew before. Even experienced editors will find something to help them work faster and smarter."
Another of Greenberg's favorite sessions is "10 Power Tips: It's All About Speed," scheduled for 10:15 a.m. on Saturday. "There are all sorts of little hidden keyboard commands and other things you can do to help you tell stories faster," says Greenberg. "Some of the tips covered in this session are documented and some are not."
One of Greenberg's favorite Avid power tools is the Replace Edit function. "I find that only 40% of the experienced editors I run into know about it," he says. "It's so good it's in the Final Cut Pro interface as well. With Replace Edit, you can build a montage in minutes as opposed to an hour. It's that fast."
Because Avid used the same basic interface for its new DNA product family that it used for its Meridian-based line, Greenberg is quick to point out that this session, as well as many of the others, will be useful to users of both new and old Avid systems.
And with sessions on everything from audio editing to keying to management of hard-disk space, the Avid tracks touch on virtually every stage of the post-production process. "I'm really blown away by how much we are presenting," says Greenberg. "Every area in the workflow is being addressed."
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