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CHAPTER 3: BASIC EDITING ■
Tutorial: Making the First Edit
Well, you’ve learned a lot about the interface. Time to put it to use. Before we begin
the next several tutorials, you have a little file-shuffling to do.
Prepping the Project
First, if the Avid application is open, close it. Find the folder on your system named
Avid Projects. You’re going to copy some projects from the companion DVD to your
system so that you can complete the tutorial. Open the
Avid Projects folder and you
will see your username. Open that folder and any projects that you have created should
be displayed in folders.
On the DVD, you will find two folders: One is named
Xpress_Pro, and the other
is named
Free_DV. Be sure to use only the projects for your system. Free DV projects
and bins cannot be read on Xpress Pro systems, and vice versa.
1. After you’ve found the right spots, copy those project folders from the correct
named DVD folder (
Xpress Pro or Free DV) to the hard disk folder with your
username. The correct path on your computer should be should be one of these:
\Xpress Pro\Avid_Projects\your_username
\Free DV\Avid_Projects\your_username
2. The next step is to copy the media files. If you’ve already done the exercise in
Chapter 2, you will note that there is a folder on your computer named
OMFI
MediaFiles
. There is a folder by the same name on the DVD. Copy the files from
the DVD to the
OMFI MediaFiles folder. Do not copy the folder, just the files.
3. Eject the DVD, and start the Avid application.
4. Open the project named Avid Made Easy. In this tutorial, we’re going to do
some editing and a little media navigation, and we’ll play around with some of
the functions to get you familiar. To begin, open the bin named Tin Drawers.
Before we begin editing, let me give you a little background on the subject mat-
ter here. The clips are from the film When We Were Queens, a documentary about the
founding of the Royal Ballet in England. (The film is copyrighted by Nunaka Valley
Films. These clips have been licensed for educational use only with this book.) What
we’re going to do in the tutorials is edit a couple of pieces from interviews with some
of the dancers and crew that were with the ballet before World War II.
Interviews can be very tough and exacting, particularly when subjects add paren-
thetical information that is unnecessary to a story being told. Are you ready? Let’s start
cutting!
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