13 Customization and Organization

We’ve spent the past 12 chapters really getting to know the power of Avid and the art of editing. You now have a good foundation—you can organize, mark, edit, remove, trim, and re-arrange your footage. You have an understanding of Avid’s many audio tools, titles, and effects.

Let’s put editing down for a chapter and spend some time tackling some important peripheral topics. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to optimize your Avid workspace by customizing settings and streamlining the editing process through smart organization and powerful search tools.

Diving into Settings

Customization of editing settings is so important. Most good editors carry their Avid user settings around with them (on a flash drive, or ...

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