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Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook

You're reading from   Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook What better way to learn the professional editing possibilities of Avid Media Composer than by trying out practical, real-world examples? This book has over 160 hands-on recipes and guidance covering both basic and advanced techniques.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693004
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Benjamin Hershleder Benjamin Hershleder
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Assets into Your Media Composer Project FREE CHAPTER 2. Customizing Your Work Environment 3. Polishing Gems 4. Creating Split Edits 5. Maintaining and Regaining Sync 6. Managing Your Media Files 7. Mono and Stereo Audio Mixing 8. Editing with Group Clips and MultiCamera Mode 9. Output Tips and Tricks Additional Tips, Tricks, and Explanations Details on Trimming, Slipping, Sliding, and Segment Mode Helpful Details about MultiCamera Editing Index

Trimming terminology


Before we get into Trimming, it will be helpful to be familiar with a couple of terms. So, in this section, we'll discuss A-Side and B-Side as well as the concept of HANDLE.

A-Side/B-Side

When you are editing (for example, using Splice and Lift, and so on), the Composer Window displays two monitors. The Source Monitor is on the left-hand side and the Record Monitor is on the right-hand side.

However, when you are Trimming shots longer or shorter (we'll talk about Slipping and Sliding later), monitors of the Composer Window change their display. The left monitor is displaying the tail frame (the last frame) of the shot on the left-hand side of the transition (the cut), while the right monitor is displaying the head frame (the first frame) of the shot on the right-hand side of the cut. However, we need a more generic and succinct way to describe them. So, we refer to the shot on the left-hand side of the transition as the A-side shot and the shot on the right-hand side, as you guessed it, the B-side shot. You may also hear people refer to the A-side shot as the outgoing shot and the B-side as the incoming shot. I'll be sticking with the terms A-side and B-side.

Handle

Handle is the material that was not edited into the Sequence, but is still available in the clip.

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Handle gets revealed when you trim a Segment longer (of course, once it's revealed it's no longer Handle). On the other hand, when you trim a Segment shorter you are creating Handle. Further, Handle also comes into play whenever you apply a transition effect (for example, a dissolve). The transition effect uses the material in the Handle to do its job creating the effect.

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