Nonlinear is a buzzword for every broadcaster and facility house worldwide. Systems range from the humble to the exotic, and despite the growing acceptance of the technology, many users, both new and experienced, find the complexity of the operation and the time spent loading the material and rendering effects difficult to manage at first. Non-linear editing also comes with its own specialist language, requiring each editor to be conversant with a new range of skills from day one. As desktop systems improve the role of the traditional editor is constantly evolving and expanding. This is an operational manual for professional trainees and students in the post-production industry. It will also serve as a useful reference tool for producers and directors. Written in a concise and clear manner, the book serves as a practical guide to the efficient management and operation of non-linear editing systems. It describes the technology involved, the essential techniques to be mastered including on-line and off-line editing, project management, rendering effects, working with graphics and audio, and adding third party applications. Designed for quick and easy reference, this is a practical user guide to non-linear editing that comes complete with an extensive jargon buster that will get you fully conversant with the technology in a short space of time. Patrick Morris is a Trainer in Post-Production for the Television Corporation of Singapore and the Singapore Broadcasting Authority as well as Chairman of the South East Asia User Group. He is an AVID Certified Trainer with a working knowledge of Lightworks, Media 100, Quantel, D Vision and other systems. Formerly a consultant and Senior Editor for BBC, ITV and SKY TV, he also spent many years a Training Manager for BBC Wood Norton and as Senior Video-Tape Editor for Television South West.

Nonlinear is a buzzword for every broadcaster and facility house worldwide. Systems range from the humble to the exotic, and despite the growing acceptance of the technology, many users, both new and experienced, find the complexity of the operation and the time spent loading the material and rendering effects difficult to manage at first. Non-linear editing also comes with its own specialist language, requiring each editor to be conversant with a new range of skills from day one. As desktop systems improve the role of the traditional editor is constantly evolving and expanding.

This is an operational manual for professional trainees and students in the post-production industry. It will also serve as a useful reference tool for producers and directors. Written in a concise and clear manner, the book serves as a practical guide to the efficient management and operation of non-linear editing systems. It describes the technology involved, the essential techniques to be mastered including on-line and off-line editing, project management, rendering effects, working with graphics and audio, and adding third party applications. Designed for quick and easy reference, this is a practical user guide to non-linear editing that comes complete with an extensive jargon buster that will get you fully conversant with the technology in a short space of time.
Patrick Morris is a Trainer in Post-Production for the Television Corporation of Singapore and the Singapore Broadcasting Authority as well as Chairman of the South East Asia User Group. He is an AVID Certified Trainer with a working knowledge of Lightworks, Media 100, Quantel, D Vision and other systems. Formerly a consultant and SeniorEditor for BBC, ITV and SKY TV, he also spent many years a Training Manager for BBC Wood Norton and as Senior Video-Tape Editor for Television South West.
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Basic concepts are explained in a clear manner for ease of understanding

Part semi-autobiographical recollections of a childhood spent in rural Vermont, and part fictional nonsense, Rich With Pizza is a collection of short stories and humor pieces that follow a boy's imagination from the small town of West Brookfield, VT to Brooklyn, NY

Who are we? What are we? What is the limit of intellect? Questions such as these have been pondered for millenia. We seem to be bent on developing machines that emulate the human mind, but strangely we do not place as much emphasis on enhancing our own minds. At the end of human fetal development our minds cease to grow. Why? And what might happen if somehow this process could be restarted, if our minds could continue to develop. What would be become then? Perhaps it is a blessing that no human to date has ever found out what might happen. After all, we are flawed, emotionally unstable, prone to fits of cruelty and barbarism. And yet we are kind and loving, nurturing beings. Whatever the path one might imagine to take on this speculative journey, nature has a way of shaking things up from time to time. So what might happen if a person were to experience such intellectual growth as to turn thought into reality? Heaven or Hell awaits us in the end as we move inevitably closer and closer to what may be our final reality. For now, the only answer we can offer is that conjured up by our imagination.

Dinosaurs have arguably occupied a key slot in the imagination of millions of people since the dawn of modern archaeology. Museums, television shows, documentaries, fantasy art, fiction and science fiction genre have all been utilized to express this intense desire to see, to hear, to be frightened by, and to be fascinated by these "terrible lizards." However, dinosaurs are almost universally depicted as nearly mindless, lumbering gargantuans. Consider this: The human race has existed for perhaps 5 to 10 millions years in various final evolutionary stages of sentient emergence from the animal state. Compare this to the age of reptiles which is considered to span most of the Mesozoic era, an epoch that lasted at least 180 million years, more than ten times as long as the reign of modern man. In the long, long history of dinosaurs, would it not have been possible for just one species to have ascended into a sentient state, following...no, preceding the evolutionary path of the human race? A path that ended the reign of the dinosaur in a cataclysmic celestial event that extinguished these amazing animals. Or did it?

For thousands of years people from many countries have described strange visitations from small creatures with large, dark eyes. Reports from many people who claim to have been abducted by these "grays" as they are called seem to indicate that these creatures are searching for something from us. Further, our species, our world appears to be involved in some kind of meta event which seems to be just out of reach of our perception. Real, and yet wholly surreal. If all these reports have any merit, then it begs the question what do these creatures want with us? Our tiny, insignificant world is located in the galactic boondocks of the milky way. What possible value would these creatures find in our obscure planet? What if these creatures are not aliens at all?