Video Editing Course Outline

Duration: 5 Days

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Course Overview and
Objectives
In this three-day course, you’ll get
a thorough overview of the
interface, tools, features, and
production flow for Premiere Pro
CC. The course is an ideal
combination of instructor-led
demonstration and hands-on
practice to introduce you to
Adobe Premiere Pro software, a
revolutionary 64-bit nonlinear
video-editing application. You will
learn powerful real-time video
and audio editing tools that give
you precise control over virtually
every aspect of your production.
Pre Requisites:
Practical working knowledge of
Mac OS X or Windows
Basic knowledge of editing
terminology is highly
recommended
tel 011 782 4297
fax 086 511 3343
109 3rd street, linden, 2195
po box 44007, linden, 2104
e-mail: msd@imsd.co.za
website: www.imsd.co.za
Premiere Pro CC Course Outline
Lesson 1: Touring Adobe Premiere Pro CC
■ Nonlinear editing in Adobe Premiere Pro
■ Expanding the workflow
■ Touring the Adobe Premiere Pro interface
Lesson 2: Setting up a Project
■ Setting up a project
■ Setting up a sequence
Lesson 3: Importing Media
■ Importing assets
■ Working with the Media Browser
■ Importing images
■ The media cache
■ Capturing the videotape
Lesson 4: Organizing Media
■ The Project panel
■ Working with bins
■ Organizing media with content analysis
■ Monitoring footage
■ Modifying clips
Lesson 5: Essentials of Video Editing
■ Using the Source Monitor
■ Navigating the Timeline
■ Essential editing commands
Lesson 6: Working with Clips and Markers
■ Program Monitor controls
■ Controlling resolution
■ Using markers
■ Using Sync Lock and Track Lock
■ Finding gaps in the Timeline
■ Moving clips
■ Extracting and deleting segments
Lesson 7: Adding Transitions
■ What are transitions?
■ Edit points and handles
■ Adding video transitions
■ Using A/B mode to fine-tune a transition
■ Adding audio transitions
Lesson 8: Advanced Editing Techniques
■ Four-point editing
■ Retiming clips

Course Overview and
Objectives
In this three-day course, you’ll get
a thorough overview of the
interface, tools, features, and
production flow for Premiere Pro
CC. The course is an ideal
combination of instructor-led
demonstration and hands-on
practice to introduce you to
Adobe Premiere Pro software, a
revolutionary 64-bit nonlinear
video-editing application. You will
learn powerful real-time video
and audio editing tools that give
you precise control over virtually
every aspect of your production.
Pre Requisites:
Practical working knowledge of
Mac OS X or Windows
Basic knowledge of editing
terminology is highly
recommended
tel 011 782 4297
fax 086 511 3343
109 3rd street, linden, 2195
po box 44007, linden, 2104
e-mail: msd@imsd.co.za
website: www.imsd.co.za
■ Replacing clips and footage
■ Nesting sequences
■ Regular trimming
■ Advanced trimming
■ Trimming in the Program Monitor panel
Lesson 9: Putting Clips in Motion
■ Adjusting the Motion effect
■ Changing clip position, size, and rotation
■ Working with keyframe interpolation
■ Using other motion-related effects
Lesson 10: Multi-camera Editing
■ The multi-camera process
■ Creating a multi-camera sequence
■ Switching multiple cameras
■ Finalizing multi-camera editing
■ Additional multi-camera editing tips
Lesson 11: Editing and Mixing Audio
■ Setting up the interface to work with audio
■ Examining audio characteristics
■ Adjusting audio volume
■ Adjusting audio gain
■ Normalizing audio
■ Creating a split edit
■ Adjusting audio levels in a sequence
■ Working with the Audio Mixer
Lesson 12: Sweetening Sound
■ Sweetening sound with audio effects
■ Adjusting EQ
■ Applying effects in the Audio Mixer
■ Cleaning up noisy audio
Lesson 13: Adding Video Effects
■ Working with effects
■ Keyframing effects
■ Effects presets
■ Frequently used effects
Lesson 14: Color Correction and Grading
■ Color-oriented workflow
■ An overview of color-oriented effects
■ Fixing exposure problems
■ Fixing color balance
■ Specials color effects
■ Creating a look

Course Overview and
Objectives
In this three-day course, you’ll get
a thorough overview of the
interface, tools, features, and
production flow for Premiere Pro
CC. The course is an ideal
combination of instructor-led
demonstration and hands-on
practice to introduce you to
Adobe Premiere Pro software, a
revolutionary 64-bit nonlinear
video-editing application. You will
learn powerful real-time video
and audio editing tools that give
you precise control over virtually
every aspect of your production.
Pre Requisites:
Practical working knowledge of
Mac OS X or Windows
Basic knowledge of editing
terminology is highly
recommended
tel 011 782 4297
fax 086 511 3343
109 3rd street, linden, 2195
po box 44007, linden, 2104
e-mail: msd@imsd.co.za
website: www.imsd.co.za
Lesson 15: Exploring Compositing Techniques
■ What is an alpha channel?
■ Using compositing in your projects
■ Working with the Opacity effect
■ Working with alpha-channel transparencies
■ Color keying a greenscreen shot
■ Using mattes
Lesson 16: Creating Titles
■ An overview of the Titler window
■ Video typography essentials
■ Creating titles
■ Stylizing text
■ Working with shapes and logos
■ Making text roll and crawl
Lesson 17: Managing Your Projects
■ The File menu
■ Using the Project Manager
■ Final project managment steps
■ Importing projects or sequences
■ Managing collaboration
■ Managing your hard drives
Lesson 18: Exporting Frames, Clips, and Sequences
■ Overview of export options
■ Exporting single frames
■ Exporting a master copy
■ Working with Adobe Media Encoder
■ Exchanging with other editing applications
■ Recording to tape
*Please note that we offer free electronic support to clients on content
covered on our courses.

Course Overview and
Objectives
Final Cut Pro X is a revolutionary
video editing application that
helps beginners and seasoned
professionals achieve stunning
results. In this three-day, hands-on
course, students become familiar
with the user interface while they
learn how to perform editing
functions. Students work with
real-world media to learn practical
approaches to video editing—
from basic techniques to the
powerful advanced features of
Final Cut Pro.
Pre Requisites:
Practical working knowledge of
Mac OS X or Windows
Basic knowledge of editing
terminology is highly
recommended
tel 011 782 4297
fax 086 511 3343
109 3rd street, linden, 2195
po box 44007, linden, 2104
e-mail: msd@imsd.co.za
website: www.imsd.co.za
Final Cut Pro Course Outline
Lesson 1: Getting Started
■ Understand basic Final Cut Pro workflow
Lesson 2: Importing Media
■ Define the clip, event, and library containers
■ Understand the differences between managed and external
media files
■ Create a camera archive
■ Import files using Media Import and the Finder
Lesson 3: Organising Clips
■ Apply keywords to clip and clip ranges
■ Search and filter clips by keywords
■ Add notes and ratings to a clip
■ Create Smart Collections
■ Detect people and composition within clips
■ Understand and assign roles
Lesson 4: Making the First Edit
■ Create a project
■ Add and rearrange clips within a primary storyline
■ Ripple, Roll, and Slip trim clips
■ Blade, replace with gap, ripple delete, and join through edit
■ Perform connect edits
■ Create and edit in a connected storyline
■ Adjust audio levels
■ Share the project to a media file

Course Overview and
Objectives
Final Cut Pro X is a revolutionary
video editing application that
helps beginners and seasoned
professionals achieve stunning
results. In this three-day, hands-on
course, students become familiar
with the user interface while they
learn how to perform editing
functions. Students work with
real-world media to learn practical
approaches to video editing—
from basic techniques to the
powerful advanced features of
Final Cut Pro.
Pre Requisites:
Practical working knowledge of
Mac OS X or Windows
Basic knowledge of editing
terminology is highly
recommended
tel 011 782 4297
fax 086 511 3343
109 3rd street, linden, 2195
po box 44007, linden, 2104
e-mail: msd@imsd.co.za
website: www.imsd.co.za
Lesson 5: Revising the First Edit
■ Define and distinguish the two types of project duplication
■ Understand the replace edit options
■ Use markers for clip synchronization and task notes
■ Create and edit with an audition clip
■ Refine project using trim to playhead and trim to selection
Lesson 6: Enhancing the Edit
■ Vary the playback speed of clips
■ Modify the look of clips with effects
■ Utilize transitions
■ Adjust transform and compositing controls
■ Create compound clips
Lesson 7: Finishing the Edit
■ Add and modify a lower third
■ Add and modify a 3D title
■ Split edit audio and video
■ Keyframe audio
■ Color correct a clip
 tel 011 782 4297
fax 086 511 3343
109 3rd street, linden, 2195
po box 44007, linden, 2104

e-mail: msd@imsd.co.za
website: www.imsd.co.za

Course Overview and Storyboarding Course Outline

Objectives
Storyboarding is, in many
respects, the most important
stage of film/television Lesson 1: The process: storyboard stages from concept sketches and
production. It is where the script (previsualization), to thumbnails, to storyboards, to animatic, and
is transformed from words on a
beyond
computer screen into a
sequential, visual story. It is where
concepts of cinematography, Lesson 2: Tools of the trade: tools and methods for storyboard creation
stage-setting, blocking and
acting are first realized. Lesson 3: The importance of drafting and revision during the boarding
process; dealing with notes
This workshop will explore the
basic concepts of storyboarding Lesson 4: Effective boarding strategies
and allow participants to create
and review storyboards of their Lesson 5: Visual storytelling: creating/controlling/conveying the
own. Concepts addressed will
narrative
include: tools, methods and
techniques, visual storytelling
and narrative structure, shot Lesson 6: Blocking and composition: controlling the eye
composition, “acting,” and
character development, among Lesson 7: Coherence between shots, making sure boards “read”
others.
Lesson 8: “Acting” and visual character development: bringing the
script to life

Lesson 9: Conveying the mood: scene tone (comedic, dramatic, action-

based, et cetera); visual idioms and tropes

Lesson 10: Storyboarding and the rest of your team: scripts and
screenplays, character design, props and backgrounds, layout,
animation, audio design

Lesson 11: Storyboarding for your bosses: “the network,” producers,

directors, art director, et cetera