This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with this popular editing software in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Avid Liquid (formerly known as Pinnacle Liquid), leading Avid evangelist and filmmaking consultant Paul Ekert uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you everything that’s new in Avid Liquid 7. Filled with step-by-step, task-based instructions and loads of visual aids, this book explains how to effectively use Avid Liquid 7 to streamline your workflow; enhance your creativity; use primary functions such as Timeline, FX, Titles, Audio, DVD creation; and more. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of all the program's new features: SmartSound (enables you to quickly create soundtracks from a library of samples); Real-time Time Warp (see your slow-mo without rendering); 50 new special effects; dozens of style and compositing effects taken from Commotion; and more!
• Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
• Works like a reference bookâyou look up what you need and then get straight to work
• Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Avid Liquid 7, August 16, 2007
By
Heinz A. VietmeyerThe book is well writen and easy to follow, sadly the pictures next to the subjects did not come out very clearly.
I can recommend this book to any Avid Liquid 7 user to fully understand the software
Understanding what you read, May 31, 2007
By
A. W. Hoedemaker (Wassenaar the Netherlands)
When you are a daily user of the Liquid system and work in a editing team, the Avid Liquid Reference Manual is the place to find answers to all your questions.
If you don't belong to these group of people, the reference manual still will give you all the answers, but the problem may be you don't understand the answer.
Paul Ekert, Avid Liquid for Windows deals with the same matherial, but he speaks a different language. This makes him much more understandable to a large audience.
Avid Liquid for Windows, January 27, 2007
By
Kenneth McknightGreat book... Great tips and little tidd bits of information as well as being up to date.
Excellent introduction to AVID LIQUID video editing, January 19, 2007
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Fred Ginsburg (Mission Hills, CA United States)
There is very little in the way of published texts explaining the new version of AVID (formerly Pinnacle) LIQUID video editing software... but fortunately this book fills the void! As a professional video editing instructor and turnkey editing system reseller, I can appreciate a useful text when I read one, and I am happy to recommend this book to anyone who is just starting out with Liquid or Liquid Pro software. We advise our own students and clients to purchase copies, and would heartily endorse it to the general public. The author covers the material well and the book is populated with lots of screenshots illustrating the software menu's. He does not cover the "art" of editing, but rather focusses on the physical operation of Liquid, from capturing the raw footage through creation of the final product. I would have liked to see a little more coverage of splitting & trimming scenes, but overall I still think that this is the best textbook dealing with Liquid that I have yet to encounter.
Must Have, November 24, 2006
By
A J Day (Cape Town, South Africa)
I distrusted Liquid when I first got it ... what I really wanted but could not afford, was Final Cut Pro. As any Liquid user knows, the manual is poorly written. After a frustrating year on Liquid this book was the turning point for me ... it took me from a cutter to power user in a week!! Not only that, if you cross referance, (eg TIMEWARP & COLOUR CORRECTION) ... the Avid manual makes more sence ... the extra detail is all there. I can now afford FCP but having tried it again recently, it seems akward and old fashioned. For me, thanks to Paul Ekert ... Liquid Rocks! This book is a "Must have"
