Ch. 1. What is linear editing? What is nonlinear editing?
ch. 2. The interlaced scanning system. The waveform monitor. The vectorscope. The video monitor. The computer monitor. Audio. Summary
ch. 3. Digital signals and sampling. Disk drives. Disk capacity. Compression. Summary
ch. 4. Off-line and on-line editing. The digitizing process. Some special cases. Editing. Output
ch. 5. Project and system management. Timecode. Media logging. Batch digitizing. System management. Summary
ch. 6. Dissolve/wipe. Motion effects. Multi-layer effects. Summary
ch. 7. Hole cutters. Luminance key. Chrominance key. Matte key. Alpha channels
ch. 8. Working with titles and captions. Style. Working with third party graphics applications. Safe title area. Saving time. File type and cross-platform compatibility. Summary
ch. 9. Working with audio. Audio options for the nonlinear suite. Summary
