Avid Xpress Pro Power!

Review

This chapter covers a lot of advanced material early on. You might find it necessary to continue through the book and come back to this chapter for reference at a later point.

• Avid Xpress Pro can recognize several kinds of decks and cameras .

• There are three ways to record material. Capturing on-the-fly , capturing using IN and OUT points, and batch capturing.

• Avid Xpress Pro allows you to capture material in online and offline resolutions .

• If your source material is Digital Video, Avid Xpress Pro can capture your material as one clip and divide it into sub-clips by using a feature called DV Extraction.

• If you deleted a project, its material can always be batch captured if you maintain or have access to the original source tapes and you backed up your work (see Chapter 13, "Saving Your Work").

• Avid Xpress Pro can import a variety of files.

• Your import settings dictate how any imported files will appear in Avid Xpress Pro.

• Multiple files can be re-imported using the Batch Import command.

• Avid Xpress Pro can import files directly from a CD by simply dragging and dropping an audio file into a bin.