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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