Recently I reviewed the book Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook, by Avid Certifed Instructor Benjamin Hershleder. I was very impressed by the book and I am now happy to announce, I have recently teamed up with Packt Publishing. Together we have organized a Giveaway of the Avid Media Composer 6.x Cookbook. We are giving away 3 copies of Avid Media Composer6.x Cookbook. 3 lucky winners stand a chance to win e-copies of their new book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners.
Overview:
- Hands-on recipes in a step-by-step logical approach to quickly get started with Avid Media Composer and gain deeper understanding
- Learn Avid Media Composer in a completely new way— gain intensive exposure with various editing options to develop your abilities, become even more creative, and acquaint yourself with various methods that you never thought were possible
- Understand not only why it works, but also how it works and browse through lots of tips and techniques to perform professional quality editing
Read more about this book and download free Sample Chapter
How to Enter?
All you need to do is head on over to the book page and look through the product description of the book and drop a line via the comments below this post to let us know what interests you the most about this book. It’s that simple.
Deadline
The contest will close on April 30, 2013. Winners will be contacted by email, so be sure to use your real email address when you comment!
Update: Please note there is no need to leave you email in your public comment. When you leave a comment it will submit your email address automatically. Thank you .
This Contest is now Closed. Congratulations to the winners you will be contacted via email.
Tej Babra is a film maker and editor working with broadcast giants like Bell Media, CTV, Rogers, MTV, and Much Music, as well as a variety of film production companies. Tej is also a proud associate member of the Canadian Cinema Editors.
What’s most interesting about the book is that it’s not your normal guide on how to. The cookbook style is easier to read and gets right to the point. Besides, who doesn’t like a good cookbook! I know I do!
-Bryan
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Vfxbryan It is very well laid out and simple to read.
Bryan also there is no need to leave your email address publicly. I automatically receive your email address privately. This way you can avoid spam.
Thanks !
Vfxbryan It is very well laid out and simple to read.
Bryan also there is no need to leave your email address publicly. I automatically receive your email address privately. This way you can avoid spam.
Thanks !
I’ve been a longstanding FCP editor and have been looking for a quick way to dive into AVID.
I work as an assistant in Hollywood and most of my work has been on FCP. My edit house is currently integrating more and more Avid projects and I’m not going to be a very good assistant unless I can pull a few tricks out of my hat. I believe this book will give me a solid understanding of the Avid structure as well as help me step up to the advanced playing field.
Media management is an important aspect for Avid Media Composer that needs to be understood. The book devotes a complete chapter to this and I believe this will be the chapter that seasoned and new editors will constantly refer to.
Really dig the step-by-step approach to explaining the sequence of things you need to do to complete a task (from the sample chapter).
As someone who composes a lot of music for videos, commercials and TV shows…I’d love to read this to check out http://www.packtpub.com/avid-media-composer-6-x-cookbook/book#chapter_7 to see how I can better prep my mixes to send to production houses.
Very interested to see how he addresses “Adding Filler at the end of a sequence”, it is something that is bothering me immensely right now. I have work around but just want to know if there is an easier way. Big fan of Ben’s, he is one of the powerful resources active in the Avid-L and very passionate about editing with avid.
As someone returning to Avid after working with the other “Big A” editors, I wish to not only regain my chops and speed, but dig into the newer features now available. I also want to fully use the Multicam features – something I miss almost as much as the trimming tools.
Need all the help I can get as I transition back to Avid.
Media Composer is wonderfully complex and therefore not
always intuitively obvious.When you are
like me and do not edit every day or even every week, it can be a challenge to
remember the steps required to accomplish what needs to be done.This book is a treasure in that it refreshes
for me the step by step help I need as well as giving me the broad base understanding
of what I am doing.
Moving up from Avid 2.2.7 to 6.x is a big jump. I need help in understanding the new features since that old version.
As an old school Avid Editor, I`d like to dig into
I’m really looking forward to getting all that I can out of AVID and this book looks like it could help. Ben is a great instructor so I could see his “Cookbook” being a huge help.
I was reading the sample page of the new “cookbook” and was wondering if the book will have links to sample files of the examples. Also, does it cover Scriptsync ? Otherwise it looks well designed.
Nicely done Ben.
I have only been working in AVID now for about 9 Months, so the thing that interests me most about this book is an expansion of my knowledge base in the application.
As a person who has been almost entirely self-taught in Avid, I get the nagging feeling on occasion that I’m not doing things the “right” way, and likely not an efficient way. I like the task-based approach idea, I think it will provide just the right tweaks to my technique and give me a valuable insight into how a pro goes about these problems. Thanks!
I’m jumping on an Avid series in June and it’s been…. 10 years since I last touched Avid Media Composer. To say I need all the help I can get is a minor understatement, hah.
I’m running tests now and gearing up to cut a feature documentary on the Avid, and while I know my way around to a certain degree I’m really interested in having a dependable guide hanging out with me to refer to. I really want to become an expert in Media Composer, and this book looks like an awesome step in the right direction.
I like the idea of it being set up as “Recipes”. Always looking for new tricks/features that I have missed somewhere along the way.
This book looks really good, I definitely could use some help with the Audio Mixer. I may purchase this even I don’t win. :)
Wow this looks fantastic. While I’ve got a basic understanding of Avid, there’s still much to learn. I’d love a copy.
Great idea for a Avid book.
I love the magnet Icon. Maybe Avid can adopt it .. (Or was it in a version of PP)
Please add some more pages for review.
I love the magnet Icon. Maybe Avid can adopt it .. (Or was it in a version of PP)
Please add some more pages for review.