Apple revolutionized the business with Final Cut Pro. Now they’ve done it again with this suite of 5 applications - Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, DVD Pro and Compressor - that interact so nicely. Whether you’re an editor, composer, special effects artist, or sound designer, our workshops are essential.
Final Cut Pro Editing 3 days | $1195 + GST
This three-day course is designed for those who want to learn how to edit using Final Cut Pro. Prerequisite: familiarity with computer/mouse and proficiency in at least one software application.
- overview of final cut pro
- differences among imovie, final cut express, and final cut pro
- introduction to interface (browser, canvas, viewer, timeline)
- managing media (clips, subclips, video files, audio files, graphics files)
- dragging and playing clips
- in and out points
- overwrite edits
- insert edits
- dragging and inserting audio
- sequences
- editing audio in timeline
- deleting clips
- replacing clips
- zoom in and zoom out
- trimming clips
- ripple edit
- slip edit
- editing for speed: slow, fast, and reverse
- freeze-frame
- snap-to grids
- one-sided vs. two-sided edits
- roll edit
- master clips
- subclips
- markers
- keyboard shortcuts
- customizing keyboard
- transitions (video, audio)
- locking clips
- audio levels (adjusting levels, syncing levels)
- intro to capturing video - calculation of hard drive space
- logging and capturing video
- using the logging tabs
- setting up camera and computer
- batch capture
- capture now - dv start/stop detection
- clip capture - setting up in and out points
- capture preferences
- import files (video files, audio files, graphics files)
- working with external hard drives
- adding transitions (effects menu, contextual menu)
- changing transition durations
- audio transitions
- effects (adding effects, rendering effects)
- rendering clips and sequences:
- filters (brightness and contrast, blurring the image, distorting the image)
- color correction
- white balance
- color adjustments with gamma levels
- keyframes
- wireframes
- voiceover
- adding text and titles
- exporting project
- print to video
- print to web
- mpeg vs. quicktime
- using compressor
- exporting to tape and dvd
- overview of dvd studio pro
- overview of apple motion
- overview of soundtrack
- overview of livetype
Motion 3 days | $1195 + GST
This two-day course provides a comprehensive overview of Motion, Apple’s real-time design motion graphics application. The course covers interface fundamentals, particles, blend modes, layer organization, fundamental multi-layer editing techniques and advanced text effects. Prerequisite: Final Cut Pro editing course in order to have a good understanding of required output resolution and the various file formats.
- getting to know the interface
- some windowing hot keys
- setting the play range
- zooming the canvas
- adding objects
- applying behaviors
- applying filters
- soloing objects and ram previews
- deactivating behaviors and filters
- using particle simulations.
- using generators
- applying generators from the library
- exploring abstract particles
- using the cellular generator
- working in the inspector
- working with gradients
- using hot boxes and sliders
- adding a slit scan
- rendering a generated object.
- working with layers and objects
- building a multi-layered composite
- navigating the layers tab
- working with filters and behaviors in the layers tab.
- using motion’s templates
- accessing template elements
- creating your own templates.
- creating text effects
- working with text parameters
- animating text on a path
- animating the tracking and slant
- animating the position
- applying motion blur.
- using blend modes
- blending objects
- creating a title
- adding a logo
- changing media properties
- adding the explosion and sound.
- keying
- pulling a key
- treating the edges
- creating a garbage matte
- keyframing the garbage matte
- fixing the choke problem
- adding a zoom blur.
- nonlinear editing
- assembling the video
- bringing on the butterflies
- adding a lens-flare filter
- adding the cinemative graphics
- adding the explutterfly
- adding the hero
- fading out
- audio and markers
- mixing the soundtrack
- adding markers.
- integrating with apple pro applications
- creating a lower third for final cut pro
- creating a dvd motion menu
DVD Studio Pro 3 days | $1195 + GST
This three-day hands-on course teaches students everything they need to create a professional DVD title. This course guides students through every aspect of DVD
authoring, from initial storyboarding to burning and replication. Prerequisite: familiarity with computer/mouse and proficiency in at least one software application.
- preparing your first dvd project
- dvd creation process
- the dvd specification
- exploring the interface
- creating a simple dvd in basic view
- creating a menu
- connecting assets to the menu
- simulating a disc
- building and burning a disc.
- exploring the full interface
- opening the project
- exploring window configurations
- adjusting the project.
- setting up a simple dvd
- storyboarding your dvd
- creating the swiss storyboard using the graphical tab
- previewing the finished project with apple’s dvd player
- identifying source video settings
- setting dvd studio pro settings
- setting up disc properties
- importing video and audio files
- setting chapter markers
- simulating your project.
- creating menus within dvd studio pro
- the menu creation process
- importing assets
- adding a background graphic
- creating buttons on a still menu
- making connections from buttons to video
- using the title safe feature
- adding title and text to the menu
- adding sound to the menu
- setting up navigation on your dvd
- changing the still menu in a motion menu
- creating a chapter index menu
- customizing a default chapter index menu
- setting up the chapter index navigation buttons
- completing the customized chapter index menu template
- automating the chapter index menu creation process
- creating a slideshow
- file formats for slideshows
- adding a slideshow
- modifying your slideshow
- slideshow transitions
- converting a slideshow to a track
- adding subtitles
- creating subtitles in dvd studio pro
- modifying the font and color of subtitles
- importing subtitles from a text file
- previewing subtitles
- creating buttons over video
- about closed captioning
- adding dvd-rom content to a dvd-video disc
- creating a web link with dvd@cess
- activating dvd-rom content with dvd@cess
- finishing your dvd
- testing your project
- building and formatting a dvd
- using the apple dvd player
- burning a disc
- choosing a recordable dvd media
- distribution of your completed dvd
- designing disc labels and dvd case inserts
- introduction to encoding
- bit budgeting
- using compressor to encode a file
- creating a preset
- creating a compressor droplet
- creating menus with overlays
- creating menus with a simple overlay
- creating menus with advanced overlays.
- working with markers and stories
- working with chapter markers
- creating markers in final cut pro
- working with markers in dvd studio pro
- using stories as playlists
- creating a story with multiple markers.
- connections and basic scripting
- establishing connections
- creating a menu loop script
- adding random play commands
- connecting the script to the menu
Soundtrack Pro 2 days | $1195 + GST
In this two-day workshop, you will use Soundtrack Pro to edit audio files, repair field recordings, perform multitrack arranging and mixing, synchronize audio and video, analyze and fix common audio problems, and perform other creative sound design techniques. This course focuses on practical, professional techniques used to add professional music and sound effects to video and multimedia projects. Prerequisite: familiarity with computer/mouse and proficiency in at least one software application.
- preparing your first dvd project
- working with the interface
- project window
- utility window
- media and effects manager
- waveform editor
- mixer
- saving and closing projects.
- creating a multitrack project
- multitrack project vs. audio file project
- creating a new project
- setting project properties
- setting up workspace
- basic window controls
- using project layouts
- locating audio files
- previewing audio files
- using browser
- adding audio files to the multitrack project
- setting project length
- working in the timeline
- saving multitrack projects.
- creating suspense with sound design
- working with tracks
- understand time vs. beat-based tracks
- working with markers
- working with video
- customizing window layouts
- editing audio clips in the timeline
- selecting multiple audio clips
- basic editing features
- moving audio clips
- nudging clips in the timeline
- snapping clips to adjacent tracks
- creating crossfades between clips
- truncating overlapping clips
- working with the blade tool
- splitting and joining audio clips
- removing audio clips
- transposing audio clips
- changing a clip’s playback mode
- exploring the waveform editor
- understanding audio files and audio file projects
- playing audio files in the waveform editor
- editing audio files in the waveform editor
- processing audio files
- applying actions and analyzing files in the waveform editor
- working with multiple actions
- analyzing an audio file
- using markers in the waveform editor.
- recording and saving audio files in soundtrack pro
- connecting audio equipment
- recording audio in the timeline
- saving recorded clips
- recording audio in the mixer
- recording audio in the waveform editor
- saving recorded clips as loops
- opening files in the apple loops utility.
- creating a basic mix
- understanding mixing steps
- mixing with the track controls
- muting and soloing tracks
- automating pan level envelopes in the timeline
- recording envelope points in the timeline
- working with the mixer
- adding audio effects and finishing the mix
- realtime vs. processing effects
- adding effects to a track
- working with effects in the mixer
- working with busses and sends
- setting the overall project volume level
- exporting
- managing media and preferences
- exporting multitrack projects
- media management
- setting soundtrack pro preferences
- advanced mixing
- editing and sound design techniques
- working with the master Envelopes
- scoring a marker to the playhead
- working with timeslices
- changing the offset of an audio clip
- automating realtime effects parameters
- advanced settings for realtime effects
- advanced settings for processing effects
- automating processing effect parameters
- working with effect presets
- thinning envelope points in recorded automation
- scripting actions in the waveform editor
- using soundtrack pro with other apple pro apps
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