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  • Thu, Oct 27 2005 6:23 AM

    • jawpaul
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    Books?

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    I am looking to fill my bookshelf with some quality reading material to educate myselff further. What books can you recomend for the semi-experienced user.

    I recently ordered the following from Amazon:

    The Five C's of Cinematography
    Audio Postproduction for Digital Video
    The Avid Handbook : Intermediate Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems, 4th Edition

    Thanks

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  • Thu, Oct 27 2005 6:28 AM In reply to

    • xyedit
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    Re: Books?

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    "XpressDV/Pro On the Spot" (Steve Hullfish, Chris Phrommayon, and Bob Donlon) for tech stuff.

    "In the Blink of an Eye" (Walter Murch) for a study of editing theory

    Also, you may want to check out "Avid Editing" (Sam Kaufmann) for more tech info

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  • Thu, Oct 27 2005 7:46 AM In reply to

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    Re: Books?

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    Avid Xpress Pro - Visual Quickpro Guide by James Monohan

    Excellent reference manual for Pro!  I use it all the time!  Amazing!

    Cheers!
    GABDude

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  • Fri, Nov 4 2005 4:07 AM In reply to

    • jawpaul
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    Re: Books?

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    I now have the above books and the following

    Aivd XPress Pro and DV - On the spot

    Visual Quickpro guide Avid Xpress Pro

    All of these books seem pretty good.

    So far my Favorite is the Avid Handbook. Where i already have plenty of Avid experience and am farmilar with alto fo things its good that it doesn't go real dumb down on things boring me. However it goes into explaing things and workflows very well. I am fidning it hard to put down.

    Thanks

    Anymroe suggestions?
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  • Fri, Nov 4 2005 6:23 AM In reply to

    Re: Books?

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    Avid Xpress Pro Power by Steve Julin
    Avid Xpress Pro Editing Workshop by Steve Hullfish & Jaime Fowler

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  • Fri, Nov 4 2005 8:30 AM In reply to

    • Baklap
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    Re: Books?

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    just added this thread to the book listing on the "everything you need to know"  thread, keep them comming for future reference..

    Menno

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  • Fri, Nov 4 2005 6:48 PM In reply to

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    Re: Books?

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    Yo Baklap,

                    There was an excellent thread on the same subject just before the forums got updated - the archived forums look like they're offline just now, but might be good to merge that one to this.

    cheers

    Bill

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  • Thu, Feb 9 2006 2:53 PM In reply to

    • Baklap
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    Re: Books?

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    Bump.. anyone else with good suggestions on this thread?

    Menno
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  • Thu, Feb 9 2006 3:27 PM In reply to

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    Re: Books?

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    I really enjoyed "TRANSITIONS Voices on the Craft of Digital Editing" - Interviews with 16 different editors about their approach to various types of craft. Editing features, commercials, music videos, animation. Their thoughts on how its changed, where it's going and how THEY work, their particular workflow. Very insightful. Though the format of the book is a bit awkward. It's a real 'graphic' layout. WIth the words printed over visual images. Sometimes the contrast between print and background makes it hard to read. (But then again, I'm fifty years old and my eyes aren't what they used to be!)

    A good book to have around, open at random and read.

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  • Thu, Mar 22 2007 4:11 AM In reply to

    • Astrakan
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    Re: Books?

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    I'm brand new to Avid and I'm looking for a good beginner's book that can introduce me to the system and get me started.

    I've been recommended the QuickPro guide for use as a reference, but in addition to that I'd also like to get a lesson-style book of sorts. You know, a more structured self-teaching kind of book where you go one chapter at a time and learn more and more advanced stuff as the book goes along.

    And since I'm asking for a recommendation, I might as well throw one out there myself:

    The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michel Ondaatje.

    It's a fast, interesting and engaging read and well worth the time of anyone interested in editing or filmmaking in general.

    Thanks in advance for any replies.

    KM

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