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Video Editing with Avid: Media Composer, Symphony, Xpress
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Video Editing with Avid: Media Composer, Symphony, Xpress

by Roger Shufflebottom
July 2013
Beginner
256 pages
6h 44m
English
Routledge
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Further Editing Techniques

  • Command Palette
  • Subclips
  • Clipboard
  • Duplicating sequences
  • Workspaces
  • More on settings
  • Storyboard editing
  • More useful buttons
  • Editing with ganged pop-ups
  • Multicamera editing

Once beyond the basic editing stages, there are many other useful techniques to be explored; a selection is detailed in this chapter.

Command Palette

Although many useful buttons are provided on the standard button sets in the Composer window and on the keyboard, there are further buttons available. It is also useful to be able to move and modify the existing buttons. All the buttons are available from the Command Palette in the Tools menu (all systems except Xpress v3 and earlier). Open the palette and you’ll find a series of tabs under which ...

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