Avid creates industry-leading video editing software used on Academy-Award-winning movies, Emmy-winning TV shows, broadcast news, and video games. "Avid Made Easy" is the first book to directly address the beginner audience and target those using the FreeDV demo software and the entry-level Avid Xpress family. It discusses video editing workflow, the Avid interfaces, capturing, editing, trimming, import and export, and special effects.