Year 2, Semester 2, Week 4, Practical

In Todays Practical I began to learn about using Avid. Sarah spent the first hour showing us the differnt functions in using Avid. Sarah showed us showed us first of all how to tranfer your footage into Avid manually by simply clicking on the record icon and clicking it again when you want it to stop, or you can make an in point and an out point and click record and it will rewind and record your selection. Sarah also showed us how the to create bins and name them for your different shot types CU, MS and LS and also to name each shot in order to keep organised. In each bin the frame icon was selected as it gives a thumbnail picture of your shot so that it is easier to access. I then started to use Avid by myself and began by importing the footage Denise and I shot around the college on car clamping. I found Avid easy to use compared to Media 100 and am looking forward to using it in the future.