X-Banned_Bob
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Jun 1, 2002, 9:28 PM
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Re: Kron/Avio in schools
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: I'm here for the first time. Considering buying Avios and Krons to use in high school broadcast journalism. I'd like to hear from other teachers about their experiences. e-mail me personally or post here. Thanks.
I'm not a teacher, but I've helped out with some schools in getting the Avios into the classrooms. They are quite a jump far ahead from the old linear editing ... tape to tape cutting of projects. Simple to set up and relatively simple to use for the basics. Only the iMac is easier to work with, but iMac only accepts DV input, not VHS or SVHS like so many schools are equipped for.
When you say "broadcast journalism", I'm assuming you're not referring to folks that will be doing complex editing, but rather simple storyboards ... sequential video clips with sound, or that will have narration cut over them later (needs to be rendered -- modest speed), and a few titles (must always be rendered -- slow!) and special transitions and effects (most need to be rendered -- slow!) from time to time. Fortunately, the vast majority of work in this field is cuts-only and natural sound, so the rendering won't be a real time-killer for most. With the Avios you'll be able to focus on the techniques of news gathering, composition of information, storyboarding, presentation, narration, scriptwriting, etc., with little need to worry about learning a video editing system. My six year old not only learned to edit with a Casablanca, but she also starred in a six minute "how-to" video on upgrading the processor and memory. Now THAT'S got to be easy!
OTOH, if you have DV cameras and relatively up-to-date PCs (they'll need those for scripting, etc. anyway), and you're preparing students for Hollywood or professional careers, you'll probably be a lot better off spending the money on the Avid DV Express 3.0 software. It's very easy to use ... very powerful in MANY ways, and even a modest speed computer (1GHz or so) gives complete immediate visual feedback with real-time multi-layered effects. For instance, with a 1.2 GHz Athlon system, I can have a video background, floating PIP with soft multicolored borders moving anywhere on the screen, and a title dissolving on and off, and view it all immediately in real time. Add some more layers and you can actually scroll very quickly through the video (almost real time) to view the effect, but actual playback will require a few seconds of rendering for the extra layers ... such as more PIPs, or superimposed alpha channel images. Now, it can be a little challenging to learn (but after all, this is high school, right, not six year olds?), but will give them far greater capabilities to edit top notch professional looking video in a reasonable amount of time. Also, they'll transition into most major studios without having to re-learn software.
I hope this helps.
bob
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