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The heart of the machine
The Edit screen is where you’re likely to spend most of your time when
making your movie. It’s where you split your video footage into separate
scenes, trim them, add special effects, name the new scenes and place
them in the order in which you’d like them to appear in your final movie.
The Edit screen really is the “heart” of the Avio.
This movie assembly takes place in the Edit screen’s “storyboard.” The
concept behind the storyboard is nearly as old as the film industry itself.
Since the advent of the modern movie, filmmakers have used a storyboard
to help organize the layout of their project.
A good storyboard allows a director to quickly review nearly every stage
of a movie by displaying each individual scene (usually represented by the
scene’s first frame) in order, providing an album of snapshots of the final
film. Traditionally, the storyboard would actually be a large board composed of hand-drawn pictures that represent every scene. As a result, the
storyboard would often look like a large comic-strip version of the film.
The Avio modernizes this time-honored concept with its own digital storyboard. Within this storyboard, scenes are represented by their names and
the first frame of the scene; the playing order is from left to the right. As
you begin to assemble your scenes in the storyboard, you actually see your
movie “grow” from the opening title sequence to the final shot.
One way to conceptualize editing with the Avio is to imagine an artist creating a painting. The source video that you recorded onto the Avio from
tapes can be thought of as the “paint.” When that source video is recorded
onto the hard drive and edited, it is like an artist placing paint on a palette
and mixing it to form a variety of new colors. Now, just as the artist would
take the colors from the palette and arrange them on a canvas to create a
painting, you will take your scenes from the scene bin and move them up
to your “canvas,” the storyboard, to create your movie project.
This chapter will describe all of the functions and features that you will
use as you begin to create a movie within the Edit screen.
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