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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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Working with Audio

  • Audio Settings
  • The Audio Tool
  • The Audio Mix Tool
  • Using audio keyframes
  • Audio gain automation
  • Audio Punch-in
  • The Equalization Tool
  • AudioSuite plug-ins
  • Audio Mixdown
  • Importing CD tracks

Audio can be dealt with in many ways on Avid systems. All the audio can be balanced, mixed and equalized on the computer and output to tape as the final mix or, when offline editing, little audio work may be done and the mix completed in a dubbing suite. In between are other options, such as outputting tracks via a mixer and balancing the sound on the fly, or outputting multiple tracks directly to a suitable tape machine for further work elsewhere. If you plan to finish on the Avid, the edit suite really needs a good amplifier and loudspeakers ...

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