Avid DS On-line Training

Over the holidays I was on the Softimage website, and I took the Avid DS101 course to get familiarized with tools for colour correction. Avid DS system is absolutely awesome as far as horsepower and the ability to do nearly everything you want. Its colour correction tool is very interesting because it gives you a wide range of controls. It’s fascinating for me, coming from a DaVinci background, to find all the controls that you’re used to in a DaVinci and apply those to an Avid. It’s fun when you go back and forth and notice there are things missing on either product. I have to say Avid is certainly an interesting box to look at. On the Avid website you can take these on-line tutorials that are really inexpensive, I think they were from about 15 minutes to half an hour. It would be great if some of the other manufacturers, of colour correction equipment, were able to throw these kinds of training tutorials up on the Internet for all. It’s a great way to improve your skill set.