This self-paced book teaches you everything you need to know to start editing video programs by giving you hands-on practice with each of the essential procedures. No prior experience with video editing or with Avid systems is required. Using professionally produced documentary and dramatic footage provided on the companion DVD, you will learn how to input and organize source footage; edit clips; assemble and trim sequences; edit and sync audio; create transitions and titles; and output a finished program to tape, DVD, or Web.