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CreativeCOW Avid Tutorials and Reviews:

Basic DVD Authoring with Avid Xpress Studio The goal of this project by Alex Alexzander is to provide a very simple overview which describes how to go from the Avid Xpress Pro timeline to finished DVD using tools available in Avid Xpress Studio and Adobe's Photoshop. Avid Xpress Studio, DVD Authoring

15:1s to DV25 411 Offline editing provides a method of capturing footage at less than one-tenth the storage requirements of DV 25 411 media. Offline can be used with other formats as well, such as using DV 25 411 as an offline for higher formats such as uncompressed or HD. With Avid's 15:1s we can expect to fit an hour of footage for every 1.5 gigabytes of storage we have. This makes editing hours of footage on a laptop quite easy. Later the finished edit can be decomposed and recaptured at DV 25 411 or whatever resolution your Avid offers. In this document, Alex Alexzander hopes to show you how to configure and use your Settings tab to toggle between Avid's 15:1s and DV 25 411 for capture, editing, decomposing, and recapturing. Avid Xpress Pro

EDL Tips from Dennis Kutchera There are more modern ways of exchanging edit information such as OMF and AAF, but not everyone is going to have this. Media 100 now has OMF export as an extra option in version 8 and Final Cut Pro is supported through an OMF export plug in from Automatic Duck. But the old EDL text file is still with us. If you must use an EDL, you are going to be in for some frustration if you do not follow these procedures that Dennis Kutchera shares with us. Avid Editing ~ 04/07/04

A CreativeCOW Product Review:
	3Prong: AVX Plug-ins Dennis Kutchera explores one of his favorite sets of AVX plug-ins from a joint Canadian-Swiss company called 3Prong. The set includes ColorFiX, DirtFiX, FlickerFiX, TwitterFix, WaveScope and SpeedRamP. Dennis finds these plug-ins essential to online editing. Avid, Product Reviews ~ 03/02/04

A Creative COW Product Review:

Avid Xpress Pro and Mojo Creative Cow's Bob Donlon tears open Avid Xpress Pro and Mojo in this in-depth report. Bob explores Xpress Pro's uncompressed editing options, multi-cam capabilities, the new "DNA" (digital nonlinear accelerator) hardware capabilities found in Mojo and the five streams of realtime available for users working in DV25. Bob also gives readers a look at configuring the system for maximum performance and concludes that the Xpress Pro / Mojo combination is a powerful combination worthy of a 4 Cow rating. Here's why... Avid, Product Reviews ~ 2/05/04

Custom Transitions with Animatte In this tutorial, Grinner Hester demonstrates creating custom transitions using Animatte. Grinner says this is his favorite tool and uses it in every project. Avid Media Composer and Symphony ~ 09/15/03

Avid: Random Video's MediaMover

A Look at MediaMover by Dennis Kutchera Dennis Kutchera looks at MediaMover by Random Video. This third-party utility written by an editor, Tony Black, addresses a need unique to using an Avid. MediaMover greatly expands the powers of Avid's respected Media Management tools -- already an Avid strongpoint -- made even stronger by this powerful utility. With longtime Avid expert Dennis Kutchera as your guide, Avid editors will greatly benefit from this look at an Avid "must have."

A CreativeCow.net Software Review:

SpiceMaster: Tasty Stuff Indeed! Dennis Kutchera explores Pixelan Software's SpiceMaster plug-in with special emphasis on what it brings to Avid users who can now add SpiceMaster AVX to their systems. Those using other systems will also benefit from Dennis's exploration as he looks at many of the functions and benefits of the SpiceMaster system. He points out some of his favourite features as well as some tips and work-arournds to get around limitations in the Avid plug-in architecture.

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