Elstree Film School - An Introduction to Final Cut Pro - Scheduled Courses

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 INTRODUCTION

This exciting and intensive 1 day course takes you straight into the heart of Final Cut Pro 7, quickly teaching you how to best navigate this powerful software within your production workflow. From importing, marking, logging and editing your clips, to adding transitions, effects, audio clips and soundtracks, this course has been carefully designed to ensure that you gain a firm and thorough understanding of the fundamentals (and many useful 'industry shortcuts') so that you may utilize the software quickly and effectively.

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: 1 day.

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.

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

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

5-15% 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.

Final Cut Pro Training - Introduction Course
Date	Days	Total (Excl VAT)
August 2010
11/8/10	1	250	FULL
19/8/10	1	250
September 2010
6/9/10	1	250

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