Advanced Effects Editing Techniques to Speed up your Edit
Yossy Tessone
In this session we'll cover various techniques to build multilayered visual effects, as well as Nesting techniques to quickly create complex visual effects. We will cover the different types of Nesting (simple and expanded), how to fill text with moving backgrounds, and building multi-layered effect templates.
This session is intended for the intermediate level user who wants to achieve more efficiancy with effects.
Designing Creative Titles with AVID Marquee
Yossy Tessone
This session will cover Marquee in depth, teaching you how to create dynamic titles from a simple lower third to animated, 3D extruded titles along with lighting and motion paths. Also included in this session: the amazing Auto-Titler!
This session is intended for anyone who wishes to work with the Marquee title tool.
Media Composer Hidden Gems and Goodies for Most Creative and Efficient Work
Yossy Tessone
A fun session for all users who would like to learn some of the hidden gems in Avid MC. Goodies for editing, effects, audio, settings and more. One hint: a lot of ALT.
Intended for all levels.
Avid Paint and Animatte - The Dynamic Duo
Yossy Tessone
Whether you need to blur someone's face, mosaic a license plate, or create stunning transitions and backgrounds, these two effects allow you to quickly achieve the results you need without going to third party apps like After Effects. We will also cover Motion Tracking, and creating the 'Pleasantville effect'.
This session is intended for intermediate to advanced users.
Cut it Fast! Advanced Trimming Techniques
Yossy Tessone
In this session you'll discover advanced techniques that will have you trimming like a pro! Manage trimming over multiple tracks, while keeping everything in sync, trim on-the-fly and more.
This session is intended for the intermediate level user.
Speed FX and the Advanced Keyframe Graphs
Yossy Tessone
Need to create variable speed effects? In this session we'll cover the Timewarp effect, covering both the Speed and Position graphs, inside and out. You will also learn how to master the advanced Keyframe editor in order to gain full control over the effect editing process and achieve the results you need, faster. Avid MC now works with advanced keyframes by default, and so do the Boris and other third party plug-ins.
Intended for the intermediate level user.
Best Compression Techniques in Sorenson Squeeze
Jeff Greenberg
Confused about compression? If you've never gone beyond the presets, you're not really using Sorenson Squeeze well. This session will show off how to compress better looking video and how to maximize the settings in Sorenson Squeeze.
Perfect for the video editor who needs expert advice on how to compress better looking video.
Using Scriptsync + Phrase Find in Avid
Jeff Greenberg
When was the last time a new feature changed the way you do your work? Phrase Find indexes clips based on voice, allowing searches based on what was said in clips. Script sync permits dialog to be aligned to a script. Both of these features make it possible to edit faster and spend less time finding the right moment in clips.
This session will show you how to maximize both of these features.
Perfect for the intermediate or advanced owner of Media Composer who wants to edit faster, easier and smarter.
FCP X - Working with New Color Tools, Color Matching and Color Looks
Jeff Greenberg
While Final Cut Pro X has changed everything, it's still necessary to perform color correction - and this session is a must attend if you color correct. Demystify how to use the new Color tools, learn how to match shots and see how to stylize scenes.
Perfect for the intermediate to advanced user who understand the concepts of color correction and wants to use the new tools with ease and power.
Optimize your Media Composer Settings for Efficiency Part I
Jeff Greenberg
Media Composer has possibly the longest set of customizable settings of any application ever written. This session will break down deep settings in the tool that will speed up work, helping you be more efficient. This deep session will also go over how to efficiently switch settings on the fly, permitting Media Composer to be an even greater extension of your hands.
Perfect for the intermediate to advanced user who looks at the long set of customizations and wants to ease and improve their workflow.
Optimize your Media Composer Settings for Efficiency Part II
Jeff Greenberg
Part II of the prior "Optimizing your Settings" session. There is so much information that two sessions are needy to cover the material.
Switching to Avid Media Composer for Experienced Editors
Jeff Greenberg
Want to learn Media Composer? Need to learn Media Composer? This crash course is designed for experienced editors who struggle with Avid. Discover the big differences from audio through effects - that may be confusing if you use other editorial tools.
Not for novices of editing - this is for someone who knows how to edit, but struggles with Media Composer.
Creating Text Animation with Adobe After Effects
Luisa Winters
Almost every video project uses Text animation. In this session we will create text animation using templates, learn how to modify and create new templates, and of course, we will go over creating text animation from scratch.
We'll go over some of the most popular text animation techniques, including the "Invisible Pen" effect, text animation using paths, among other effects. We'll also go through incorporating Photoshop text in our work.
Audience: Adobe After Effects users, basic understanding of After Effects needed. Not a beginner's class.
Editing with Premiere Pro: A class for Experienced Editors
Luisa Winters
Adobe premiere Pro has become one of the most popular and powerful editing applications in the market today - Especially with the release of Premiere Pro 5.5. Let's dig deep into this application and share important workflow secrets including script workflow DSLR workflow, Merge Clips, and much, much more. If you have ever wanted to learn "How'd they do that?" Then come see this important session.
Audience: Adobe Premiere Pro users, basic understanding of Premiere Pro needed. Not a beginner's class.
Creating Animated 3D Text with Photoshop Extended
Luisa Winters
Photoshop is the main image editing application in the market today, but if you think of it only as an image editing application think again. Using Photoshop Extended we have access to Repoussé , which creates a 3D shape by inflating the surface that interpolates the input curves.
Using Photoshop CS5's new Repoussé tool, you can create broadcast quality 3D titles and logos, and then animate them right in Photoshop! In this workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of creating and animating 3D text, placing lights and animating your 3D objects using keyframes.
Audience: Editors, graphic artists, animators and designers.
Creating Dynamic Titles in FCP Utilizing Motion
Sean Casella
This session will be presented by Apple Master Trainer Sean Casella and will focus on how to get the most out of the new Final Cut Pro X Text and Titles creation. Topics will include how to create stunning lower thirds, credit rolls, and show openings.
Audience: Anyone who uses FCP X and wants to learn more about creating stunning titles in this new software.
Troubleshooting in FCP 7 & FCP X - What to do when things go wrong
Sean Casella
This session will be presented by Apple Master Trainer Sean Casella and will be focused on proper project file structure and
how to fix problems that arise in a project.
Audience: Anyone who uses FCP X and wants to learn more about how not to get frustrated when things go wrong in a project would benefit from this session.
Mastering Behaviors in Apple Motion
Sean Casella
This session will be presented by Apple Master Trainer Sean Casella and will be focused on the powerful behaviors in Apple Motion.
Topics will include how to create and customize your own behaviors and how to control them in the most effective way.
Audience: Any Motion or FCP user who wants to learn how to take a project to the next level without spending hours to make it happen.
From Expert to Master: Advanced Techniques for Final Cut Pro X
Abba Shapiro
This 1 hour session will focus on the all new FCP X. It will dig deep into its new features and approach to editing
through a showcase of advanced tricks and techniques.
Audience: Experienced FCS Editors who want to take their skills to the next level. A sense of humor is preferred but not required.
From Expert to Master: Advanced Techniques for Final Cut Studio
Abba Shapiro
This is a fun class! All the cream and none of the no-fat milk. This 1 hour session is filled to the brim with tricks, techniques, and short-cuts to make you a faster, better editor. (We'll be hopping around all the FCS applications showing how to best leverage their secrets.
Audience: Experienced FCS Editors who want to take their skills to the next level. A sense of humor is preferred but not required.
From Storyboard to Final Delivery in Adobe Production Premium
Abba Shapiro
Adobe Creative Suite 5/5.5 Production Premium is an entire suite of applications that can take you from storyboard all the way through to delivery of your final product...whether it is web, mobile device, or tape. This high level overview will introduce you to Adobe Story, walk you through Premiere pro, touch on After Effects and Photoshop, and explore Adobe Media Encoder.
Audience: This is an introductory session for folks brand new to Adobe CS 5/5.5, those who are thinking about purchasing the suite and those who own it but never explored other applications in the suite. Also suitable for editors who have worked with other Linear and NLE systems and just want a detailed overview of CS 5/5.5.
FCP X - Rethinking your Editing Style
Abba Shapiro
Ready, set, EDIT! This fast paced seminar will teach just enough about Final Cut X to make you dangerous. We'll walk you through the interface, so you'll know where everything is, you'll learn the ins and outs of marking of in and out points, insert and overwrite editing, adjusting audio, Using transitions and filters, and creating basic titles.
Audience: This is an intro session for folks brand new to Final Cut Pro X. Those who are thinking about purchasing the new application, those who own it but never edited with it, and those who have cut a show...yet had completely no idea what they did. It's also editors who have worked with other Linear and NLE systems and just want a detailed overview of FCP X.
Adobe Production Premium - Deep Integration: Levering Roundtrip Editing and Dynamic Link between Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop.
Abba Shapiro
This session will explore Adobe Dynamic Link, a feature included in the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium software that eliminates intermediate rendering between Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. We will also explore the creation of "sequence ready" Photoshop documents from directly within Premiere Pro.
Audience: This is an introductory session for folks who have started using Adobe CS 5/5.5, but have never explored the best ways to integrate other applications into their editing workflow.
Migration to FCP X
Abba Shapiro
Topics that will be covered will include the entire operation of FCP X from capture to output including: Workflow questions and background rendering, how content detection and repair will work, strategies to understand the new paradigms around editing such as compound clips and the magnetic timeline, and the changes with effects, including color correction. For more details see below.
Audience: Intermediate and Experienced FCP 7 Editors who want to take their skills to the next level.
DSLR Workflows : From Field to Edit
Robbie Carman
With the ever increasing popularity of DSLR cameras , the old saying "With new technology comes a need for new workflows" holds especially true. Whether it's strategies for alternate storage, multi-camera productions, or card-based acquisition... there are important considerations with DSLR cameras. Things get even trickier when it comes to post-production. Learn how to conform your media to common editing formats as well as native editing workflows.
Color Correction Using Premiere Pro & After Effects
Robbie Carman
When it comes to color correction, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects are a powerful duo. In this session learn about the versatile color correction tools inside Adobe Premiere Pro and how to utilize Adobe Dynamic Link to move projects to Adobe After Effects to take advantage of the powerful Color Finesse plugin package as well as use the sophisticated masking capabilities of After Effects.
Audience: Editors and colorists
Color Correction with Apple Color
Robbie Carman
This session will familiarize students with the color correcting capabilities of Apple Color. Start with the basics of color balancing and correction, and move on to the fine points of secondary grading, including scene matching, skin tone adjustments, adjusting the composition and framing of a shot, and more.
Audience: Editors and colorists
Media Management in FCP 7
Robbie Carman
This power session will show you how to best manage your media within the Final Cut Studio workflows. From Creating proper session files, to shared files, to backing up, all will be covered: FCP, Motion, STP, DVDSP. This is a session you won't want to miss!
Target Audience: Anyone who uses Apple FCS applications and workflows.
Compositing Techniques with FCP 7, FCP X and Motion 4 & 5
Robbie Carman
In combination with each other, Final Cut Pro and Motion have very capable toolsets for creating unique and stunning composites. In this session learn how to use techniques such as blending modes, keying, and motion tracking to quickly jump-start your projects.
Audience: Editors