Seminar 1 - Setting Up and Troubleshooting Your Hardware
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announcements.
| 1:00 |
Welcome
• Goals for workshop
• Logistics |
| 1:15 |
Determining the Video Editing Equipment You Need
• How to select the right gear
• Why monitoring is so important
• Planning for High-Definition
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| 2:00 |
Picking the Right Video Format and Hard Disk
• Selecting the best video format for your project
• FireWire 400, 800, SATA, SCSI, Fibre – how to choose?
• RAIDs vs single drives
• Understanding data rates and storage requirements |
| 2:45 |
Break |
| 3:00 |
Working with HDV
• Understanding HDV's strengths and weaknesses
• Benefits of editing HDV natively in Final Cut
• Benefits of converting HDV before editing
• Understanding where Apple's ProRes fits in
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| 3:30 |
Trouble-shooting your Gear
• Capture and output problems
• What to do when things stop working
• Simple preventative maintenance procedures
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| 4:00 |
Special Concerns: Getting Ready for Color
• Selecting the right equipment for SD and/or HD
• Special requirements for color correcting
in HD
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| 4:15 |
Special Concerns: Networked editing
• Working with shared media (SANs)
• An editing workflow that works
• Introduction to XSan |
| 4:30 |
Audience Q & A
• Bring your questions... we've got answers. |
| 5:00 |
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Seminar
2 - Optimizing Your Editing with Final Cut
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announcements.
| 6:00 |
Welcome
• Goals for workshop
• Logistics |
| 6:15 |
Getting Ready
• Optimizing the Operating System
• Using Disk Utility and Activity Monitor
• Trouble-Shooting Final Cut |
| 7:00 |
Setting up an Efficient Final Cut Workflow
• Optimizing your SD workflow
• Setting up an HD workflow that works
• The best way to store projects and media
• What, when and how to archive
• Optimizing Final Cut System & User Settings
• Selecting the right video codec
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| 7:45 |
Break and Snacks |
| 8:00 |
Techniques to Faster Editing
• 10 ways to edit faster to the Timeline
• Backtime, replace, match-frame & fit-to-fill edits
• New file management in Final Cut Pro 6 |
| 8:30 |
Trimming Power Tips
• 9 better and faster ways to trim clips
• Trimming in real-time
• Secrets of the Slip tool and Option key |
| 9:00 |
Introduction to Color Correction in FCP
• Understanding how to read scopes
• The Color Corrector 3-way filter
• An seven-step automated approach to fixing color problems |
| 9:30 |
Audience Q & A
• Bring your questions... we've got the answers. |
| 10:00 |
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Seminar
3 - Mastering Final Cut Studio 2
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| 9:00 |
Welcome
• Goals for workshop
• Logistics |
| 9:20 |
New Features in Final Cut Pro 6
• Open Project Timeline
• SmoothCam (image stabilization)
• Using Motion templates
• Log & Transfer (tapeless acquisition)
• New FXPlug filters
• ProRes 422
• Key changes to user preferences
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| 10:45 |
Break and Snacks |
| 11:00 |
New Effects in Motion 3
• Creating a Motion template for FCP
• Motion tracking
• Changing clip speed / retiming
• Chroma-keying
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 |
Mixing Your Projects in Soundtrack Pro
• The new features in Soundtrack Pro 2
• Repairing poor audio
• Mixing techniques and essential filters
• Auto-Conforming FCP projects
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| 2:45 |
Break & Snacks |
| 3:00 |
Introduction to Color
• System requirements
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Understanding the interface
• Getting files to/from Final Cut Pro
• A simple workflow that works
• Traps for the unwary
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| 4:15 |
Audience Q & A |
| 5:00 |
End of day |
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