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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| The Digital Laboratory | |
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| Hardware and Software Requirements | |
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| Inside your Mac | |
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| How Much Hard Drive Space? | |
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| Firewire | |
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| Before and After Firewire | |
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| Video Formats | |
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| Television Aspect Ratio | |
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| Loading the Software | |
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| Initial Setup | |
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| Easy Setup | |
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| DV Audio | |
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| Creating a DV 32 kHz Easy Setup | |
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| The Interface | |
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| Arranging the Interface | |
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| Learning a Custom Layout | |
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| Important Details about the Interface | |
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| Button Bars | |
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| Customizing the Keyboard Layout | |
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| Saving Projects and Accessing the Autosave Vault | |
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| Capture | |
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| Setting Scratch Disks | |
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| Working with Formats other than DV | |
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| Methods of Capturing DV Footage | |
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| Deck Control | |
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| The Capture Window | |
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| Capture Clip | |
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| Capture Now | |
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| Batch Capture | |
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| Selectively Capturing using Batch Capture | |
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| Setting a Logging Bin | |
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| Clearing a Logging Bin | |
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| The Clip Settings Tab | |
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| Capturing Multi-channels of Audio | |
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| Capturing HDV | |
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| Getting the Most Out of the Capture Process | |
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| Importing Music from CD | |
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| Converting Audio Sample Rates | |
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| Converting Audio Sample Rates Using QuickTime Pro | |
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| Organizing your Footage | |
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| Viewing Clips | |
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| Playing Video through Firewire | |
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| DV Start/Stop Detection | |
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| Working with Bins | |
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| Working in Icon View | |
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| Setting Poster Frames | |
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| Searching for Clips | |
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| Editing | |
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| Insert and Overwrite Editing | |
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| Getting Started with Editing | |
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| Distinguishing between Insert/Overwrite | |
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| Three Point Editing | |
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| Other Editing Options | |
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| Modifying 'In' and 'Out' Points | |
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| Directing the Flow of Audio/Video | |
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| Locking Tracks | |
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| Adding and Deleting Tracks | |
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| Essential Editing Tools | |
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| Undo/Redo | |
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| Linked/Unlinked Selection | |
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| Moving Edits in the Timeline | |
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| Selecting Multiple Items in the Timeline | |
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| Cut, Copy, Paste | |
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| Snapping and Skipping between Shots | |
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| The Razorblade Tool | |
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| The Magnifier Tool | |
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| Bringing Clips Back into Sync | |
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| Creating New Sequences | |
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| Subclips | |
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| Freeze Frame | |
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| Match Frame Editing | |
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| Slow/Fast Motion | |
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| Split Edits | |
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| Drag and Drop Editing | |
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| Extending/Reducing Clips by Dragging | |
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| Rendering | |
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| The Render Settings | |
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| Media Management | |
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| Making Clips Offline | |
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| The Render Manager | |
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| Effects | |
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| The Concept of Media Limit (Handles) | |
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| Applying Transitions | |
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| Changing Transition Durations | |
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| Applying Filters | |
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| Compositing | |
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| Methods of Creating Multiple Tracks | |
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| The Motion Tab | |
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| Using the Motion Tab | |
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| Image + Wireframe | |
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| Titlesafe | |
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| Working with Multi-Layers | |
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| Keyframing Images | |
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| Multi-Layered Dissolves | |
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| Keyframing Filters | |
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| Time Remapping | |
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| Copy and Pasting Attributes | |
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| Titling | |
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| Audio | |
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| Setting Correct Audio Levels | |
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| Getting the Most Out of your Audio | |
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| Converting Clips into Stereo Pairs | |
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| Adjusting Audio Levels | |
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| Adding Sound Fades | |
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| The Audio Mixer | |
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| Adjusting and Recording Audio Keyframes | |
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| Adding Audio Cross Fades | |
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| Adding Audio Tracks | |
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| Mixdown Audio | |
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| Output | |
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| Print to Video | |
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| Other Forms of Distribution | |
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| Compressor | |
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| Using Compressor in Five Easy Steps | |
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| Export Using QuickTime Conversion | |
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| Multicam | |
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| Working with Multiple Cameras | |
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| Mixing Live vs. Cutting in Post | |
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| Preparation | |
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| Creating Multiclips (Syncing up the Reels) | |
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| Syncing by 'In' Point | |
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| Working with Multiclips | |
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| Cutting your Multicam Sequence | |
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| Working with Multicam without Cutting the Soundtrack | |
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| Fine Tuning your Multicam Sequence | |
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| Final Tips | |
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| Dealing with 'Buttoning On and Off' | |
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| Syncing without sound | |
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| HDV | |
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| Working with HDV | |
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| Down-converting from HDV to DVCam using the Sony Z1 | |
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| Epilog | |
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| Index | |