Avid Xpress Pro Editing Workshop

by Steve Hullfish, Jaime Fowler

This book moves beyond the basics of "pushing the buttons"; explaining the most efficient and effective ways of using Xpress Pro to tell the story. Readers develop a working knowledge of the application with lessons and tutorials that cover every essential method and technique. An excellent resource for students and professional editors new to Xpress Pro, this book and downloadable resources combo provides valuable hands-on practice with an extended example that demonstrates the edit of an entire sequence. Project media and plug-ins are provided on the downloadable resources.

461 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Stephen Hullfish has been an editor since 1983. He moved to Chicago 1985 where he worked on sports, comedy and cooking shows for SportsChannel and The Travel Channel. In 1992 he started working on Avid and was hired at Del Hall Video, where he primarily edited "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Investigative Reports," "The New Explorers" and "Cold Cases." In 1997 he was named an Avid Master Editor. In 2002 he started working for VeggieTales as an editor and producer and in 2004 began freelancing as a feature film editor, cutting films like "Overcomer," Courageous," "War Room," "Champion," "My Brother's Keeper" and "Clinton Inc." His Art of the Cut podcast and interview series started in 2014. He has interviewed over 300 editors including nearly every Oscar winner of the last 30 years.