The Avid Handbook

The Avid Handbook: Intermediate Techniques, Strategies, and Survival Information for Avid Editing Systems

This is a book that most editors and definitely system managers should have in their library.The book contains a lot of good information from someone that know Avid from the inside. Steve Bayes has worked as a Senior Instructor and then moved over to Product Designer for Symphony and later DS. Here is what it say about the book at Amazon:

The Avid Handbook caters to video editors bordering on intermediate who are ready to unleash the full power of the Avid but don’t know where to start. Rather than focusing on arcane keystrokes, the book teaches production procedures, the real key for getting a job done. Time saving, shortcuts, and strategies are emphasized, and the author tackles such real-world problems as set up, keeping a facility running, minimizing crashing, and troubleshooting head on. Bayes has helped thousands to avoid downtime and maximize creative time.

About Svein

After living in Norway for over 40 years, I have moved to Brazil. I still sometimes travel to Norway to work, but aim at making those trips shorter and shorter. My worklife has been spent in the professional broadcast area. I have been doing regular production, both recorded and live shows. And I have been working for one of the major suppliers of editing systems, Avid Technology. The last few years I have done a lot of training and teaching. It is a very rewarding kind of work and no two days are the same. I also spend some time hacking together websites and tell people about the benefits of having websites with content management systems - CMS and lately also about the advantages of Linux. My preferred flavour is called Kubuntu.