Avid Editing

Sam Kauffmann was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts – Film in 2009. He teaches film production and motion picture editing at Boston University. He recently completed a film that exposes the many biases inherent in the SAT and ACT tests, called Act Out Against SAT, and his film Kids Living with Slim (2010), about African children who are HIV positive, won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. His previous film, Massacre at Murambi (2007), was aired on the PBS series POV. It won top prizes and was screened at festivals all over the world. In 2004, he was a Fulbright Scholar, teaching production at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. In 2006, he was a Fulbright Senior Specialist teaching at the National University of Rwanda.

Chapter 1: Getting Started, Chapter 2: Basic Editing, Chapter 3: Trimming, Chapter 4: Using the Smart Tool, Chapter 5: A Few Editing Tips, Chapter 6: Customization and Organization, Chapter 7: Sound, Chapter 8: Effects, Chapter 9: Titles, Chapter 10: Keeping in Sync, Chapter 11: Power User Tips: Editing and Effects, Chapter 12: The Double System Sound Workflow, Chapter 13: Color Correction, Chapter 14: Inputting Media, Chapter 15: Working in HD, 2K and 4K, Chapter 16: Outputting Your Sequence, Chapter 17: Managing Media and Project Data, Chapter 18: Today’s Editing Landscape, Chapter 19: Present and Future