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Table Of Contents
CONTENT
Part1
Upgrading to Avid Liquid.................................... 7
1 Avid Liquid: Brief Overview........................... 8
2 Initial Contact with Avid Liquid.................... 10
3 EZ Capture................................................. 12
4 Album and Project ...................................... 14
5 Collecting, Sorting, Viewing and Finding
Clips............................................................ 16
6 Importing Clips, Titles, Graphics and Stills. 18
7 DVD Menus, Titles and Effects................... 20
8 Film Window and Timeline: Basics............. 22
9 Inserting Clips on the Timeline...................24
10 Inserting/Deleting Clips on the Timeline..... 26
11 Trimming Clips on the Timeline .................. 28
12 Moving Clips Horizontally and Vertically..... 30
13 Effects: Basics............................................ 32
14 Effects: Transitions ..................................... 34
15 Effects: Clip FX (Video Effects) .................. 36
16 Effects: Render or Realtime? .....................38
17 Timeline Settings........................................ 40
18 Audio: Basics.............................................. 42
19 Fast Audio Fade-ins and Fade-outs............44
20 Making a Movie: Options............................ 46
21 Recording to DV Tape................................. 48
22 Burning Disks / Exporting Files .................. 50
23 The Most Important Settings ...................... 52
Part2
1 Recording from DV/HDV Video Tapes
(Capture) .................................................... 56
2 Comparison of Recording Instruments....... 58
3 Recording Clips with Mark-Ins and
Mark-Outs................................................... 60
4 Recording or Logging Clips “on the Fly”..... 62
5 Automatic Scene Detection........................ 64
6 Recording Audio: Stereo/Mono and Level.. 66
7 Naming and Numbering Clips while
Recording................................................... 68
8 Recording/Digitizing Tips ........................... 70
9 Scene Detection in the Clip Viewer............ 72
10 Protecting and Muting Tracks..................... 74
11 Trimming with the Trim Editor ..................... 76
12 Trimming Video and Audio: Split Editing .... 78
13 Moving Clips Horizontally and Vertically..... 80
14 Good to Know............................................. 82
15 Effects: Working with Key Frames.............. 84
16 Audio Scrubbing......................................... 86
17 The Audio Editor......................................... 88
18 Audio Mixer and Volume Lines................... 90
19 Output Mapping.......................................... 92
20 Audio: Settings Tab .................................... 94
21 Recording Voice Over................................. 96
22 Live Mixing of Audio Tracks........................ 98
23 Sound Effects........................................... 100
24 Surround Sound ....................................... 102
Manual
Part 1