Elstree Film School - Essential Final Cut Pro Techniques

Apple's amazing industry standard post production tools, Final Cut Studio comprises of Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4. In the latest version of Final Cut Studio, these applications enjoy ever tighter integration and a host of innovations that help you work faster and collaborate more efficiently.

Considering all of the advancements made in the latest Final Cut Pro 7, there are now even more reasons why it is the first choice of professional editors and producers worldwide. Our Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Pro training courses offer a variety of ways to learn this incredibly powerful and versatile software suite and will give you the skills needed to work in a modern post production environment.

FINAL CUT PRO ESSENTIALS

Following on from our 1 day Final Cut Pro Introduction training course, this second day ventures deeper into the editing and trimming process, teaching you how best to refine your editing techniques in order to produce smoother and more professional results. In addition, the processes of applying mattes, split screens and color corrections are covered in detail, as well as further audio manipulation techniques. Taking you deeper into the power of Final Cut Pro, this second day course (in combination with the first) covers all of the 'essential techniques' and ensures that you find yourself well on your way to mastering this unique and powerful software.

Other courses in this series include: Final Cut Pro Introduction (1 day), Final Cut Pro Essentials (2 days), Final Cut Pro Complete (3 days), Final Cut Studio (2 days), DVD Studio Pro (1 day) and Apple Motion (2 days).

Duration: 2 days.

Location: Elstree Film School, 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [Click here for a map]

Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.

Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to both CS3 and CS4 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in our courses. In addition, we also now preview the functionality of the new Adobe CS5 software. Our Apple training courses utilise the latest versions of Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).

Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.

Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found here.

Further assistance: Our FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call 0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.

COURSE CONTENT

DAY 1

Screening and marking

• The Final Cut Pro interface
• Following a workflow
• Navigating clips
• Marking clips

Editing clips in the timeline

• Managing project elements
• Editing a rough cut
• Making overwrite edits
• Managing timeline tracks
• Making insert edits
• Adding audio clips
• Drag and drop editing
• Changing volume of edited clips

Capturing & Transferring footage

• Connecting sources for capture & transfer
• Creating a new project for capturing
• Previewing and marking your source
• Logging clips
• Choosing clip settings
• Choosing capture settings
• Setting capture preferences

Finishing the rough cut

• Adding cutaways
• Editing to narration
• Editing to music
• Copying, cutting, pasting and positioning clips

Transitions

• Applying transitions
• Evaluating project needs
• Understanding transitions
• Viewing transition options
• Modifying and copying transitions
• Using the Transition Editor
• Previewing and rendering effects

Creating titles

• Adding a lower third
• Creating a credit roll
• Composite opening titles
• Creating a freeze-frame

Soundtrack Pro 3

• Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro workflow
• Sending audio to STP
• Applying noise reduction
• Removing clicks & pops
• Sending back to FCP

Finishing and outputting

• Output to Tape
• Export Quicktime & Quicktime conversion
• Outputting for iPod & iPhone
• Outputting for YouTube & Mobile Me

DAY 2

Trimming

• Preparing a project for trimming
• Trimming preferences
• Trimming overview
• Trimming shortcuts
• Rippling edit points
• Trimming on the V2 track
• Trimming one track of a linked clip
• Trimming to refine a sequence
• Adjusting two edit points
• Slip and slid editing
• Rolling two edit points
• Keeping linked clips in sync
• Trimming in realtime in the timeline and trim window

Refining the edit process

• Creating subclips
• Adding markers to clips
• Storyboard editing
• Working with master clips

Supporting the edit process

• Saving and loading layouts
• New ProRes workflows

Motion 4 - An overview

• Final Cut Pro and Motion 4 workflows
• Green screen removal in FCP then Motion
• Creating animated motion graphics
• Avoiding rendering

Mixing audio tracks

• Organising and editing audio tracks
• Monitoring and adjusting audio levels
• Applying transitions to fade volume
• Setting keyframes to change volume
• Using the audio mixer
• Recording a narration track
• Importing CD tracks

Creating titles

• Applying a Boris title
• Creating a Boris credit roll
• Adding mattes

Changing motion properties

• Changing speed properties
• Creating a freeze-frame with speed tools
• Changing clip size and position
• Building a split screen

Applying filters

• Viewing and modifying filter parameters
• Applying audio filters
• Using a colour correction filter
• Animating filters

Finishing and outputting

• Using iChat Theatre Preview
• Using Timecode Viewer
• Creating DVDs and Blu-ray Discs

Final Cut Pro Training - Essential Course
Date	Days	Total (Excl VAT)
November 2011
2/11/11	2	475	FULL
30/11/11	2	475
January 2012
11/1/12	2	475
February 2012
15/2/12	2	475
March 2012
21/3/12	2	475

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