ELSTREE FILM SCHOOL is a film production training center based at Elstree Film Studios, Borehamwood, England, home to many famous TV and Film Productions including Big Brother, Dancing on Ice and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Elstree Film School run a variety of film production and scriptwriting courses, as well as film lighting training, movie making courses and TV production training.

Full time, part time and weekend courses are available and our trainers are highly experienced in the UK Film & TV industries. Please browse our courses on the right and we look forward to welcoming you at Elstree Film School.

Elstree Film School - Complete Final Cut Pro - Scheduled Courses




Hundreds of thousands of creative professionals from Hollywood film editors to independent film makers to editors with hourly deadlines cutting broadcast spots and network news choose Final Cut Pro for editing, making Apple's software suite the primary industry standard. Final Cut Studio offers much more than other editing suites enabling rapid motion editing, audio editing and mixing, colour grading and delivery. Final Cut Studio incorporates Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro and Colour, which as a whole is all you will ever need in the editing suite for rapid and efficient on-the-fly editing and incorporates everything you need in a single product, flexible enough to be used on site with a laptop or back at the editing suite on Mac.

Final Cut Pro is compatible with the majority of known editing suites, so if you choose to use only one or 2 elements they can all come together in the mix down within Final Cut. We offer a range of courses from 1, 2 or 5 days. This 5 day complete course covers every aspect and scenario when using Final Cut Pro including displays, interface, features, menus and functions, clipping, trimming, mixing, import and export. For a less in-depth look at the software we recommend our 1 or 2 day Final Cut Pro Training.

All of 21st Century New Media's training courses are mentored by industry leading professionals, coaching small groups at a steady pace ensuring that you will benefit from only the best tutelage and practical application so that you finish the course with the highest degree of understanding of the individual topics, placing you on a par with your established peers and well prepared for your next challenge.

As award winning industry professionals, who have used the products we teach on a daily basis for over a decade, training with 21st Century New Media puts you in the ideal environment to learn the most commonly used techniques from those most experienced. The Introduction to Final Cut Pro course is geared to assist your personal and professional development from scratch giving you the knowledge and experience of working with this essential piece of software and understanding of the most commercially important aspects.

Duration: 5 days.

Location: 21st Century New Media (Production Offices), Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 1JG. [MAP]

Prerequisites: To gain the most from this class, it is essential that you are familiar with Windows, including creating, deleting and moving files and folders. Experience with earlier editing suites would be an advantage, but not essential. Delegates are expected to have some relevant experience, though this isnt always essential call us with any questions.

About the Tutor:


COURSE CONTENT


DAY 1


Video Essentials

  • Film: PAL/NTSC
  • Frame Rates
  • Interlacing
  • Frame Sizes
  • SD, HD, DV, HDV
  • Compression Types
  • Data rates
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Anamorphic Video

The Interface

  • Tour of the 5 main windows
  • Project workflow
  • Media - How non-linear editing works
  • Easy-Setup/Scratch Discs

Import

  • Importing files
  • Capturing from tape
  • Saving & auto saving
  • Restoring a crashed project

Navigation

  • Clips and Sequences
  • Scrubbing
  • JKL keys
  • Snapping
  • Timecode

Editing Clips/Tracks

  • Marking clips and building an Edit
  • Patching tracks, overwriting/inserting
  • Backtiming
  • Editing to Narration
  • Replace edits

DAY 2


Editing Clips/Tracks (Cont'd)

  • Deleting clips
  • Adding tracks
  • Deleting tracks
  • Locking tracks
  • Moving clips about the timeline
  • Linked clips & out-of-sync clips
  • Auto-select
  • Copying & Pasting clips
  • linked clips/out-of-sync clips

Navigation

  • Clips and Sequences
  • Scrubbing
  • JKL keys
  • Snapping
  • Timecode

Trimming

  • Splicing & Deleting
  • Rippling, Rolling & Slipping
  • Subclips & Markers

Organising your Projects

  • Sorting clips in browser
  • Finding clips in the browser & Timeline

Clips

  • Master Clips
  • Affiliate Clips
  • Independent Clips
  • Subclips & Markers

Storyboarding

Frames

  • Fit-to-Fill command
  • Changing clip speed
  • Creating a freeze-frame
  • Match-frame function
  • Transitions between clips
  • Rendering

DAY 3


Multicam

Customising FCP

  • Window
  • Timeline
  • Buttons
  • Browser
  • Keyboard

System Setups

  • Sequence Settings
  • Project Settings
  • Favourite Effects

Audio Mixing

  • Setting levels & Pan
  • Laying down audio-only clips
  • Normalisation
  • Importing from CD
  • Mixing
  • Audio track conventions
  • Voice-over tool

DAY 4


Graphics, Transparency, Effects & More

  • Adding graphics
  • Alpha channels
  • Compositing
  • Generating backgrounds
  • Luma Key
  • Matte key
  • Travel matte
  • Garbage Matte
  • Chroma Key

Motion functions

  • Scale
  • Position
  • Rotation/Anchor
  • Opacity
  • Crop
  • Distort
  • Superimpose function
  • Motion Blur

After Effects

  • Basic Filters; Flop, Widescreen, Desaturate, Blur
  • Audio filters: Gain, reverb
  • Favourites
  • Adding text, lower thirds, crawls, credit-rolls
  • Title Safe, Action Safe
  • Animating clips
  • LiveType & Boris

Variable Clip speed

DAY 5


Nesting clips

More Effects

  • Further Filter Effects
  • Smoothcam
  • Basics of Colour Correction
  • Adding text, lower thirds, crawls, credit-rolls
  • Filters on nested clips

Finishing your edit & Preparing for broadcast

  • Broadcast safe filter
  • Audio Peaks
  • Adding Widescreen Mask
  • Adding Bars & Tone
  • Adding Clock
  • Sync Flash and Slate

Export

  • Laying off to tape
  • Quicktime conversion
  • Exporting via Compressor for other formats
  • Backing up projects
  • Removing backed up projects from the Mac
5-20% discount if you book for more than one delegate!
Further discounts are available when booking multiple courses,
Please call our training secretary on 0844 844 2428.

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Elstree Film School, 8 John Maxwell Building, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire WD6 1JG.
Tel: 0844 844 2428.