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Developed By:  Myron Achtman and ADITA Video Inc. Target Audience: All LE 6.x Users Media: Single CD-ROM or 2 DVD set TRT: 90 minutes Interactivity: Self-paced Price: $29.95 or $39.95 Website

ADITA Video is known for their methodical approach to video training tutorials.  As an experienced professional educator, Myron Achtman approaches Liquid Training tutorials much like that of a sniper taking aim on his target.  With the highest degree of precision, this third tutorial created by ADITA strikes a bull's eye once again.

ADITA's Multicam Workshop tutorial is more than just a software "how-to" guide.  Not only does it clearly demonstrate all the features and functionality of Liquid 6.0's new Multicam but it uses as its backdrop a real, 4 camera wedding shoot.  In this one tutorial workshop, the viewer not only learns about the Multicam technology but also quite a bit about how to setup and shoot a multi-camera event.

A word of caution... don't expect perfectly staged and flawless video content.  The clips used in this workshop tutorial were shot in 1989 using four SVHS camcorders that were used to produce an actual wedding video for the client.

Just like the footage most of us shoot, things happen.  With cameras constantly running, you are bound to capture inadvertent pans and zooms, erratic camera repositioning along with some audio of questionable quality.  But remember, that's why we edit.  This tutorial workshop does a masterful job showing you how to use Liquid Edition's new Multicam feature to mix, match and tweak the content from four separate camcorders that have been synchronized.  This will allow you to create that proverbial "silk purse from a sow's ear" ... so to speak.

This video workshop takes you beyond the software's functionality and back to concepts you need to know before you actually roll tape.  Beginning with the logistics, including camera placement, Myron reinforces earlier skills such as opening a project, digitizing individual clips, and the most important aspect of this new feature... establishing a common point of synchronization.  Multicam editing demands more computer resources and hard drive capacity. This tutorial shows you ways of optimizing Liquid's performance and how to recover valuable hard drive space when working on a project

While I reviewed a pre-released version of this tutorial, the total running time ran just a hair beyond 90 minutes.  I would expect the final TRT to be at or below that number.

In order to give users the opportunity to practice editing in Multicam, ADITA is making this tutorial workshop available as a 2 DVD set.  In addition to the tutorial (which plays through Windows Media Player), The four AVI files, originally captured and used in this tutorial, are included.

Thoroughly researched, this tutorial is designed to answer all your questions about how to use this awesome piece of technology.  After viewing it just once, the user will be more than equipped to begin editing a multi-cam shoot.

I've had the pleasure of watching (and using) the Multicam tutorial by ADITA. The tutorial is geared toward novice and pro users alike. ADITA's tutorial is able to instruct for both user levels by being complete in instruction (step by step) and in the explanation (theory) of what's going on in Liquid Edition 6.

I followed along with the tutorial using a 3 camera angle interview. The tutorial helped me not only understand the Multicam abilities of v6 but also the intent and logic of the programs' behavior. I mention this specifically because the logic is not my own and without seeing the tutorial I would have been confused on how to find replaced video in a Multicam edit.

Some highlights of the tutorial for me were:

•  Using match frame with the Multicam function

•  Proper use of the ganging tool

•  Replacing video on the Multicam timeline and caveats in the process

•  Using the trim editor in Multicam mode

•  Making and using the proper audio selection for your Multicam edit.

•  Many more...

ADITA's staff has done a really great job of taking the new Multicam feature in Liquid Edition v6 and making it useable and understandable for any skill level. I recommend it.

PS There was no stone left unturned that I could find, dynamite training....