I have used Avid for several years during college and for fun, the version i have been using is Avid Liquid 7, which is very diffrent than i used to use.
It is also very hard to use on monitor aswell.

So avid is pretty much used by professions to edit films, along with maya its the must have peice of software, i would go into i have it but well that would get me in trouble.

Now i may note that you will have to click on the images because for some reason images arent loading up to my blog at the minute.



So first we have the main screen:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/Avid1.jpg

You will notice two editing screens, one is for the source media imported and the other is the main sequance, you can tell its alot more complicated then windows movie maker but once you spend time looking at it, you will be able to edit films really easy.


here is the Sequence screen:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid3.jpg

In this screen you see anything you have edited together.


This is the source window:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid2.jpg

You can enter the imported media here and set two markers, these are then set so anything you cut out, it will be in between those two markers.

The timeline:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid4.jpg

After you have placed the markers, you then cut the clip down to this timeline, on here you can mute the audio and set fades in/out.

Timeline options:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid5.jpg

These are some of the many many options open in avid, such as the title editor, audio editor, special effects ( not available with my version)
The reverse option is here aswell, incase you make a mistake.

Options for the source window:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid6.jpg

Here are the options to set the in and out markers on a source window and cut it to the timeline.

Some tools:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid7.jpg

These are the same as the timeline options

Timeline options:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid8.jpg

here are some options to add tracks to the timeline, render effects and save the timeline.

videos menu:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/egan_87/avid10.jpg

Here once you have imported the videos into avid this is where they are stored so you can always access them.


So thats some of the options for Avid, i havent really looked at adobe premeire because i know how to use windows movie maker and Avid quite well.