IMPORTING AND EXPORTING 7

“Editing is a natural extension of collage making.”

—Rachel True

Graphics come in many shapes and sizes from artists, ad agencies, the Internet, scanners, digital cameras, and a wide range of other graphics programs, but very rarely will they be perfectly prepared for video. In general, graphics tend to be the wrong size or the wrong resolution either through accident, ignorance, or repurposing. This chapter will help you learn how to compensate for that.

Avid has built in some system intelligence to deal with all the different graphic formats and, if the graphic format given to you is recognized, the system automatically imports it. As opposed to many programs, a file extension is not required for import—a very beneficial ...

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