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Leverage The Full Power Of Avid Media Composer With This Essential Guide From An Avid Guru. Master Timesaving Tricks And Techniques That Utilize The Latest Media Composer Features And State-of-the Art Workflows. Learn The Secrets Of The Post-production Professionals From Box Office Blockbusters Like Harry Potter, I Am Legend, Dark Shadows, Men In Black Ii, Charlies Angels, 42, And The Last Of The Mohicans, As Well As Primetime Hits Like Smash, Big Bang Theory, Criminal Minds, Weeds, The Mindy Project, And Mythbusters. In Avid Uncut, Steve Hullfish Taps Into The Expertise Of The World's Top Editors To Share In-depth, Behind-the-scenes Secrets And Best Practices That Will Boost Your Editing And Color Correction Skills To The Next Level. Five Distinct Sections Cover: Pre-post, Including Discussion Of Metadata, Prepping Scriptsync, Decomposing, And More-- Settings, With Tips On Keyboard Optimization, Bin Settings, And Import/export Settings-- Off-line Workflows On Trimming, Multicam Editing, Using Phrasefind, Audio, And Stereoscopic 3d Effects, Such As 3rd Party Plugins, 3d Warp Effects, And Animatte On-line Workflows For Efficiently And Beautifully Finishing Your Work, Including Step-by-step Tutorials For Red And Arri Alexa Workflows. Also Featured Are Extensive Tips Dedicated To Helping Fcp Editors Switch Over To Avid, As Well As A Companion Website (www.focalpress.com/cw/hullfish) Loaded With Video Tutorials Of The Techniques Discussed In The Book And Project Files, Including Red And Arri Alexa Footage, That Turn This Book Into An Invaluable, Hands-on Workshop!-- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Pre-postproduction; Metadata; Ale; More On Metadata; Avid Organizational Concepts; Projects; Avid Project Folder Structure; Managing Bins Inside A Project; Managing Clips Inside A Bin; Scripted Bin Management; Prep Of Smash; Prep Of The Big Bang Theory; Prep Of The Mindy Project; Quick Scriptsync Overview; Unscripted Bin Management; Using Bins From Other Projects; Understanding Avid Mediafiles Folders; The Structure And Files Of The Avid Mediafiles Folder; Managing Storage Using The Media Tool To Delete/find Unused Mediaconsolidating; Decomposing; Ingest From File-based Workflow-ama; Red; Arri Alexa; Xdcam; P2; Canon 5dmii, 5dmiii, 7d, T21, And Other Canon Dslrs; Quicktime (.mov); Ingest From File-based Workflow-non-ama; Moving From Ama To Transcoded Media; Dynamic Media Folders; High-resolution Media; Color Management; Installing An External Lut; Applying An External Lut; Using Color Decision Lists (cdls); Ama Source Settings; Audio From Double-system Sound; Prepping Feature Films; Scriptsync; Script Supervisors And Lining A Script Preparing To Edit With Scriptsyncusing The Scriptsync Script To Edit; Using Scriptsync With A Nonscripted Shoot; Editing Proxy/low-res/up-res To Final Quality; Overall Aad And Transfer Tips; A Red Preproduction Workflow; An Alexa Preproduction Workflow; Metadata In Action; Chapter 2 Settings; Project, User, And Site Settings; Settings Fast Menu; Important Settings; Bin Settings; Important Settings Continued; Keyboard Optimization; Mapping The Keyboard; My Keyboard Settings; My Specific Keyboard Mapping; Things I Don't Have Mapped; Fcp Keyboard; Timeline; Timeline Contextual Menu Timeline Fast Menuworkspaces; Create A Custom Workspace; Reconfiguring And Saving An Existing Workspace; Linked Workspace Settings; Sharing Settings Between Users Or Projects And Site Settings; Import Settings; The Options For Import And The Effects Of Common Mistakes In Import Settings; Export Settings; Chapter 3 Off-line; Moving From Fcp To Avid; Identical Features; Things You'll Love About Avid; Comparable Tools And Methods; Smart Tool Functions; Some Things That You'll Need To Get Used To; Effects Differences For Fcp Users; Trimming Concepts; Using Extend Edit To Trim; Trimming Is Timing Multicamscriptsync; Using Phrasefind; Exploiting The Latest Features In Mc6 And Mc7; Audio; Mixing; Audiotool; Audio Project Settings; Rubberbanding; Audiosuite And Rtas; Eq; Timeline Audio Changes In Mc7; 3d-stereoscopic; Considerations For Ingest; Fixing Stereoscopic Errors; Color Correcting Stereoscopic Clips; Fixing Spatial Alignment; Considerations When Editing Stereoscopic; Editing Effects; Adding Titles; Outputting Stereoscopic Sequences; Chapter 4 Effects; General Effects Concepts; Application; Effects In Filler; Collapsing, Or Nesting, And Stepping In And Stepping Out Effects Settings Authored By Steve Hullfish. Includes Index. English