Elstree Film School - Essential Final Cut Pro Techniques - 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 2 day course teaches all of the basic fundamental displays, interface, features, menus and functions for you to build your editing experience around with some advanced editing features and display tutelage. For a complete in-depth look at the software we recommend our ultimate 5 days 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: 2 days.

Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd (Production Offices), 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.

Courseware: The book which accompanies this course is posted to you upon payment confirmation.

Accommodation & Transport: Details of local accomodation and transport 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

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
Key video formats
Importing from CD
Reconnecting Offline Media

Editing Clips/Tracks

Marking clips and building an Edit
Patching tracks; overwriting/inserting
Deleting clips
Adding & Deleting tracks
Locking tracks
Moving clips about the timeline
Linked clips & out-of-sync clips
Auto-select
Copying & Pasting clips

Trimming

Splicing & Deleting
Rippling, Rolling & Slipping
Subclips & Markers

DAY 2

Frames

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

Customisation

User preferences
System Settings
Easy Setup
Sequence Settings
Project Settings
Favourites
Window; Timeline, Buttons, Browser, & Keyboard Layouts

Audio Mixing

Setting level and pan
Importing from CD
Stereo clipss

Basic Motion functions

Scale
Position
Rotation

After Effects

Basic Filters; Flop, Widescreen, Desaturate
Audio filters: Gain, reverb
Adding Favourites
Adding text overlays

Export

Laying off to tape
Exporting to QuickTime
Backing up projects

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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