Interested in getting involved in the film and television industry? Gaining skills in multimedia and video production is a good start. You’ll learn about video editing, workflow, special effects, and production. These are all valuable skills to work in this fast paced and exciting field.
The skills gained on our Multimedia Production course can lead onto careers in film and television production, television and internet advertising, music video production, and events special effects, such as those you might see on a big stage screen at a rock concert. You could be adding special effects to a scene in a movie or helping to put together a music video. Because multimedia incorporates many different medias such as visual, sound and interaction, the skills gained through this course are interchangeable with other creative fields such as music production and animation.
In this course you’ll learn to use a variety of production and special effects software programs. These include Adobe Production Studio, After Effects, Final Cut, Encore, and Premiere Pro.
Our Multimedia & Video Production course is part of our total training series – designed as a rich learning experience which includes full video presentations, sound, and interactive tasks. You can pause a lesson, rewind, fast-forward and jump to another stage. The system will even record your progress and scores when taking a test. Best of all, because the course is online, you can do it anywhere in the world, anytime of the day as long as you have an internet connection. It’s the total training you’re looking for.
If you would like more information on this course or want to find out about career opportunities in the Multimedia Production field, call us today.
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Adobe After Effects 7 Pro: Essentials
Category: Multimedia & Video
Presenter: Steve Holmes
Platform: Windows & MAC OS
Format: Online
Running Time: 14 Hrs
Level: Beginner to Advanced
Project Files: Included
Description
These instructional videos hosted by Steve Holmes, an award-winning British designer and animator, are indispensable for learning the basics of the industry-standard tool for motion graphics and special effects design and production. With over 14 hours of indexed tutorials, you will learn incredible ways to control keyframes, use parenting and time remapping, understand and use powerful masking and blending modes, create mattes, and use adjustment layers to add complex, yet simple, impact to your animations.
Course Outline
Part 1 – Interface, Footage & Animation Essentials
Chapter 1: The Grand Tour
1. Applying a Mask & Transforming the Properties
2. Keyframing & Easy Ease
3. Layer Effects & Motion Blur
4. Animating & Organizing Layers in the Timeline
5. Working with Video & Track Mattes
6. Inserting & Animating a Text Layer
7. Completing the Animation
Chapter 2: The Project Panel & Workspaces
1. Navigating the Interface
2. Customizing, Saving & Loading Workspaces
3. Using the New Maximize Feature
4. Opening & Closing Windows & Projects
5. Working within the Project Panel
6. Organizing Files in the Project Panel
7. Tips for Utilizing the Project Panel
8. Adjusting the Working Color Space
Chapter 3: The New & Powerful Comp Panel
1. Adjusting the Composition Settings
2. Creating a Comp from Existing Footage
3. Creating a Comp from Stills
4. Working with Multiple Composition Viewers
5. Using the Zoom & Scroll Tools
6. Changing the Preview Size
7. Splitting the Composition Viewer
8. Changing the View Options
9. Selecting Composited Layers
10. Using the Snapshot Feature to Store Frames in Memory
11. .e New Color Channel Viewing Options
12. Adjusting the Viewer Resolution & Pixel Aspect Ratio
13. Exploring the Flow Chart Option
Chapter 4: The Timeline & Previewing
1. Importing Footage
2. Fitting an Image into the Comp Window
3. Snapping the Position of Layers in the Timeline
4. Introducing the AV Panel in the Timeline
5. Labeling, Selecting Label Color & Arranging Layers
6. Renaming Layers in the Timeline
7. Hiding Layers with the Shy Switch
8. Using the Quality & Effects Switches
9. Applying Motion Blur
10. Zooming, Viewing Switches, Modes & Duration Columns
11. Moving the Time Indicator & Applying Markers
12. Positioning & Trimming Layers Using Markers
13. Previewing Audio & Setting Up a RAM Preview
14. Setting Up a Work Area & a Region of Interest
Chapter 5: Importing & Organizing Footage
1. Using Adobe Bridge
2. Importing Movies & Sequences with Bridge
3. Interpreting Alpha Channels
4. Importing Adobe Photoshop(R) Files
5. Interpreting a Photoshop Sequence
6. Using Edit Original & Importing Layer Effects
7. Exploring Importable Layer Effects
8. Creating a Photoshop File in After Effects
9. Importing Adobe Illustrator(R) Files
10. Using Placeholders & Proxies
11. Proxies & the Render Queue
12. Working with Camera Raw Files
13. Using a Proxy with Camera Raw Files
Chapter 6: Video Standards & The Clip Panel
1. Composition Settings & Pixel Aspect Ratio
2. Fixing Interlaced Video Issues
3. Solving 3:2 Pulldown Issues
4. Making Insert & Overlay Edits
5. Working with Split Layers & Extracting a Work Area
Adobe After Effects 7 Pro: Professional Features
Category: Multimedia & Video
Presenter: Steve Holmes
Platform: Windows & MAX OS
Format: Online
Running Time: 12 Hrs
Level: Beginner to Advanced
Project Files: Included
Description
Steve Holmes, an award-winning British designer and animator, leads you through After Effects’ professional feature set. The lessons focus on important aspects of special effects, rotoscoping, expressions, and 3D motion graphics. Take a journey into After Effects’ incredible 3D world, with lights, cameras, motion and expressions for realistic animation. Plus, advance your skills to the next level with an in-depth and practical look at the effects, techniques, tips, and tricks used for high-end productions.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Type Animation
1. Working with the Text Panels
2. Using the Range Selector to Animate Position
3. Using the Range Selector to Animate Rotation
4. Using the Range Selector to Animate Fill Color
5. Animating Text On Screen
6. Looking at the Character O.set Animator
7. Animating the Character O.set
8. Adjusting Scale & Tracking within the Range Selector
9. Adjusting the Range Selector O.set
10. Looking at the Range Selector Advanced Shape Options
11. Easing the Shape Options & Adding a Fill Color
12. Using the Ramp Down E.ect & O.set
13. Looking at the New Blur Options for Text
14. Fading Text Using Blur & Transparency
Chapter 2: Welcome to 3D
1. 3D Position & Orientation
2. Rotating a 3D Layer
3. Viewing & Moving Objects on an Axis in 3D Space
4. Understanding the 3D Coordinate System
5. Introducing the Camera Tools
6. Changing View Layouts & Options
7. Exploring the Axis Modes
8. Parenting, Ordering & Rendering
9. Using OpenGL to Accelerate Graphic Processing
10. Fast Preview Options & OpenGL
Chapter 3: Creating & Controlling 3D Cameras
1. Adding a 3D Camera to Your Scene
2. Working with Di.erent 3D Camera Presets
3. Point of Interest, Position & Camera Tools
4. Using the Auto-Orientation Options
5. Animating a Camera from Side to Side
6. Animating a Camera 360 Degrees
7. Using a Null Object to Animate a 3D Camera
8. Creating a 3D Camera “Fly-By” E.ect
9. Animating the Point of Interest
10. Auto-Orienting Objects Toward a Camera
11. Adjusting the Depth of Field
12. Adjusting F-Stop, Aperture & Focus Distance
Chapter 4: 3D Objects, Lights & Materials
1. Setting Up Your Workspace for Working with 3D
2. Building a 3D Airplane
3. Spinning the Propellor
4. Collapse Transformations
5. Animating a Pre-Composed 3D Object
6. Creating a 3D Cityscape
7. Looking at Lighting Options
8. Working with Multiple Colored Lights
9. Casting Shadows
10. Realistic Lighting: Daytime
11. Using a Layer as a Gobo
12. Realistic Lighting: Nighttime & Sunset
13. Disabling Shadows for Speci.ed Objects & Lights
14. Adjusting the Shadow Map Resolution
15. Introducing Material Options
16. Fine-Tuning the Material Options
17. Creating a Volumetric Solid Object
18. Using Layer Blending Modes to A.ect a 3D Object
Chapter 5: Intro to Expressions
1. Rotating an Object Using an Expression
2. Duplicating a Rotating Layer & O.setting Orientation
3. Tying the Point of Interest of a Camera to a Layer’s Position
4. Using the Rotation of a Layer to Drive the Scale of Another
5. Retaining Keyframe Information while Using Expressions
6. Tying Geometric Values to E.ects Using Expressions
7. Looping Keyframes Using Expressions
8. Inverting an Expression
9. Animating with the Motion Sketch & Smoother Panels
10. O.setting Duplicate Layers Based on the Same Motion Path
Chapter 6: A World of Controlled Randomness
1. Using an Expression to Randomize Opacity
2. Using an Expression to Randomize Scale
3. Assigning a Variable to the Script
4. Using an Expression with Time-Remapping
5. Applying Expressions to E.ects
6. Using the Slider Control to Keyframe an Expression
7. Understanding Perlin Noise
8. Using the Wiggle Script
9. Wiggling along a Motion Path
10. Expressions, Split Layers & the Random Seed
11. Applying Wiggle across a Single Axis
12. Understanding & Simplifying Expressions
Chapter 7: Expression Dessert
1. Applying the Circle Fun Expression
2. Applying Parenting to an Expression
3. The Write-On E.ect & Tracking a Child Expression
4. Looking at the Bounce & Squash Expressions
Chapter 8: Tips & Tricks for Incredible 3D Expressions
1. Creating a 3D Cube
2. Adjusting Anti-Aliased Layers
3. Inverse Kinematics
4. Forward Kinematics
5. Using the Random Seed to Build an Animation
6. Creating a Smoke E.eect
7. Transforming the Smoke into 3D
8. Adjusting the Lights to Create a Nighttime
Adobe Encore CS4: DVD Workflow
Category: Multimedia & Video
Presenter: Jason Barbosa
Platform: Windows & MAC OS
Format: Online
Running Time: 2 Hrs
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Project Files: Included
Description
Our training for Encore CS4 is a quick essential look at creating a DVD workflow. You will learn step by step what you will need to get video burned onto a DVD and displayed on television screens. The series covers everything from importing file types, to building custom menus, and even exporting to flash. Whether you are new to Encore, or just brushing up on a technique, this series is just what you need to get up to speed fast.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Touring The Interface & its Capabilities
1. The Project, Menu, Monitor & Flowchart Panels
2. Properties, Character, Metadata & Timeline Panels
3. Library, Styles, Layers & Resource Central Panels
4. Previewing a Disc
Chapter 2: Basics Menu Functionality
1. Importing Items
2. Working with Timelines
3. Setting Chapter Points
4. Menu Templates & Properties
5. Button Routing
6. Automating a Scene Index
7. Checking for Errors & Previewing the Disc
8. Building the Disc
Chapter 3: Designing Custom Menus
1. Importing Files as Menus & Using Tools with Menus
2. Understanding Button Layers & Working in Adobe Photoshop(R)
3. Setting Up a Basic Scene Index
4. Button Highlights & Color Sets
5. Building the Main Menu & Setting Navigation
6. Animating Buttons & Adding Transitions
Chapter 4: Burning a Disc & Exporting to Flash
1. Transcode Settings
2. Editing Quality Presets & Customizing Your Transcode Settings
3. Exporting Your Project to a Flash File
4. Building a DVD Disc
Chapter 5: Subtitles & Alternate Audio Tracks
1. Adding Alternate Audio Tracks
2. Importing Subtitles from a Text File & Formatting Options
3. Creating Subtitles
4. Setting Navigation for Audio & Subtitle Tracks
5. Credits
Adobe Premiere Elements 7
Presenter: Jerron Smith
Platform: Windows
Format: Online
Running Time: 5 Hrs
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Project Files: Included
Description
With our training for Adobe Premiere Elements 7, you’ll learn the workflow necessary to import, edit and export your video projects. This training will give you a good understanding of all the cool intuitive tools and easy-to-use effects available in Premiere Elements 7 that will give your video a professional polish. Watch and learn just how easy it is to produce great looking video projects to share with the world with our training for Adobe Premiere Elements 7.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements 7
1. Setting Up a New Project
2. Project Settings vs. Preferences
3. Touring the Interface
Chapter 2: Capturing, Importing & Managing Media
1. Setting Up to Capture Media
2. Capturing from a DV Camera
3. Importing DVD Content via the Media Downloader
4. Getting Media from PC Files & Folders
5. Creating Albums
6. Tagging & Rating Media
Chapter 3: Quick Start Editing
1. Creating a New InstantMovie
2. Choosing & Customizing a Theme
3. Building Your InstantMovie
Chapter 4: Editing Essentials
1. Brief History & Theory of Editing
2. Importing Media
3. Assembling a Movie in the Sceneline
4. Introducing the Timeline
5. Editing Clips in the Timeline
6. Using Still Images as Clips
7. Editing a Still Image in Photoshop(R) Elements
Chapter 5: Adding Effects & Transitions
1. Introducing Effects & Transitions
2. Adding Transitions between Clips
3. Adding Effects to Clips
4. Editing Transitions & Effects
5. Time Stretching & Rendering Clips
Chapter 6: Working With Audio
1. Adding a Background Music Track
2. Using SmartSound(R) Quicktracks(R)
3. Recording a Narration
4. Adjusting Audio in the Timeline
Chapter 7: Creating Titles
1. Exploring Types of Titles
2. Adding Markers in the Timeline
3. Creating & Formatting a Still Title
4. Adjusting Color Properties & Saving a Style
5. Creating a Crawling Title
6. Creating a Rolling Title Using a Title Template
7. Adding More Tracks to the Timeline
8. Using an Animated Graphic in a Title Design
Chapter 8: Creating a Slideshow
1. Adding Images to the Sceneline
2. Adding Transitions & Audio to a Slideshow
3. Automating a Slideshow & Setting a Default Transition
Chapter 9: Deploying Your Video
1. Understanding Different Formats for Export
2. Sharing Your Videos Online
3. Creating a Video to Email
4. Creating a Video for Mobile Devices
5. Creating a Video for DVD & Blu-ray
Chapter 10: Advanced Techniques
1. Animating the Motion Property
2. Editing to the Beat
3. Creating a Picture-in-Picture Effect
4. Creating a Freeze Frame & Exporting a Still
5. Credits
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4: Essentials
Category: Multimedia & Video
Presenter: Jason Barbosa & Christopher Hunt
Platform: Windows & MAC OS
Format: Online
Running Time: 5.5 Hrs
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Project Files: Included
Description
Our training for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4: Essentials will get you up and running fast as a well rounded editor. After watching this training, you will know all about the Premiere Pro interface, how to import various types of video and other media, plus how to edit your work, and polish your project with graphics. In addition, you’ll also learn how to fine tune audio with Premiere Pro’s array of audio tools and export your project to DVD or as a media file to be shared on the Internet. This training is just what you need to learn the fundamentals Premiere Pro CS4 fast!
Course Outline
Chapter 1: Introduction to Premiere Pro
1. A First Look at Premiere Pro CS4
2. Making a Quick Edit
Chapter 2: Exploring The Interface
1. Starting a New Project
2. Setting Up Your Sequence
3. Preferences
4. Keyboard Customization & Workspaces
5. Introducing the Project Panel
6. More Project Panel
7. The Source Panel
8. The Program & Timeline Panels – the Relationship
9. The Program & Timeline Panels – Controls & Options
10. The New CS4 Panels: Media Browser, Metadata & History
Chapter 3: Importing, Logging & Capturing Media
1. Setting Device Control & Capture Preferences
2. The Capture Window Controls & Setup
3. Logging Clip Data, Timecode, & Capturing
4. Batch Capturing & Creating an Offline File
5. Importing Files into the Project Panel
Chapter 4: The Editing Tools
1. Using the Razor Blade Tool & Snapping
2. Working in the Source Panel
3. Removing Content from the Timeline
4. Using the Roll Tool
5. Working in the Trim Monitor
6. Using the Slip & Slide Tools
7. The Track Select & Rate Stretch Tools & Markers
Chapter 5: Working With Audio
1. Audio Preferences
2. Source Channel Mapping
3. Audio & The Source Panel
4. Speech Transcription
5. Adjusting Levels with Keyframes
6. Audio Effects & Transitions
7. The Audio Mixer
8. Audio Mixer Automation
9. Exporting Audio
Chapter 6: Creating Titles
1. Integrating After Effects® & Photoshop®
2. The Title Tool & Creating an End Slate
3. Creating Lower Thirds
4. Creating a Credit Roll
Chapter 7: Graphics & Animation
1. Introduction to Effects
2. Color Correction Using Auto Color & RGB Curves
3. Copying & Pasting Effects, Saving Presets
4. Adjusting Luminosity
5. Applying Transitions, Setting the Default Transition
6. Aligning Transitions in the Effect Controls Panel
7. The Basics of Keyframing
8. Setting Up a Slideshow
9. Animating a Slideshow
10. Easing Keyframes
Chapter 8: Exporting Your Project
1. Using the Project Manager
2. Exporting Media
3. Exporting to Tape
4. Exporting to DVD
5. End Credits
Adobe Production Studio: From Edit to Output
Category: Multimedia & Video
Presenter: Jason Levine & Bob Donlon
Platform: Windows & MAC OS
Format: Online
Running Time: 15 Hrs
Level: Beginner to Advanced
Project Files: Included
Description
This video series is dedicated to helping you understand Adobe’s integrated suite of video, design, audio, and DVD authoring applications. The series hosts, Bob Donlon and Jason Levine, share their real-world production knowledge of how to use these incredible digital video, sound, and effects tools to take a project smoothly from design and editing to final DVD production.
Course Outline
Part 1 – Preparing the Package
1. Workspaces & Interfaces
Looking at the Production Studio User Interface
Setting Up a Favorite Folder in Adobe Bridge
Cropping & Transforming a Photoshop Graphic
Adding Photoshop Blending Modes
Adding Lines & Text to Photoshop Compositions
Adding Illustrator Elements to Photoshop Compositions
2. Animating a Title in After Effects
Setting Up the Title Animation Project
Locking & Shying Tracks & Using the Go to Time Command
Adding Photoshop Files to an After Effects Timeline
Converting Text & Animating Tracking
Animating Text Scale
Using Text Animation Presets
Adjusting Playback Resolution
Using a Background Animation Preset
Adding a Drop Shadow to Text
Creating & Rotating a Sphere Effect
Animating Text Opacity
Adding a Magnify Effect on an Adjustment Layer
Creating & Animating a Mask
Duplicating & Tweaking Layers
Creating a Smooth Transition with Masking
Saving & Exporting with the Render Queue
3. Creating Graphics with Illustrator
Using Live Trace to Convert a JPG to Vector Art
Cleaning up the Vector Image
Creating a Background for the Bug
Masking out an Area & Using Pathfinder to Crop
4. Lower Thirds
Setting Up a New Composition
Using an Element from a 4:3 Comp in a 16:9 Comp
Explaining Title & Action Safe Guides
Creating a Solid Background
Exporting After Effects Files into Photoshop
Designing Elements with Photoshop
Adding Text to a Lower Third
Shortcuts for Creating Additional Lower Thirds
Final Assembly & Tweaks in After Effects
Part 2 – Working with Audio
1. Audition & The Multitrack Environment
Introducing the Adobe Audition 2.0 Interface
Editing in the Spectral Frequency Display View
Looking at the Mixer Panel in the Multitrack View
Adjusting Panels & Saving a Custom Workspace
Working with the Scrub Tool
2. Creating a Soundtrack with Loopology Loops
Resetting Workspace & Inserting Loops
Extending the Loop, Zooming, & Naming the Track
Slowing Down the Tempo of a Loop
Transposing the Pitch of an Audio Clip
Resizing the Audio Tracks
Utilizing the Bars & Beats Time Display
Adding Strings & Saving the Session
3. Mixing Tools & Automation
Examining a Multitrack Session
Soloing Tracks & Adjusting their Levels
Assigning Tracks to a Bus
Working in Track Automation Mode
Panning Tracks via the Mixer
Equalizing Tracks via the Mixer
Adding Reverb to a Track & Saving the Session
4. Encoding for 5.1 Surround Sound
Exporting a Session into a Stereo Mix
Exporting a 5.1 Mix Using the Surround Encoder
Part 3 – Editing in Premiere Pro
1. Premiere Workspace, Tools & a Rough Cut
Capturing Video Clips in Premiere Pro
Importing & Screening Video Clips in the Timeline
Viewing Clips in the Source Monitor
Exploring Additional Controls in the Interface
Markers, Transitions & Audio
Setting Up the Rough Cut Sequence
Adding Markers on the Downbeats
Storyboarding in Icon View
Dragging Clips to the Timeline & Locking Tracks
Snapping & Trimming Clips in the Timeline
Adding Transitions & Using the Trim Window
Adding Shots of the Band & Saving the Project
3. Voice-Over Tracks & Noise Reduction
Importing a VO Track & Sending it to Audition
Removing Background Noise in Audition
Renaming Files inside the Project Panel
Setting In & Out Points in the Audio Clip
Dragging Audio Clips into the Timeline
Adjusting the Audio Edit
4. Customizing Lower Thirds
Using Dynamic Link to Import After Effects Files
Trimming, Dissolving, & Rendering Lower Thirds
Using the Title Designer to Create Lower Thirds
Inserting Lower Thirds into the Timeline
Duplicating & Modifying Lower Thirds
5. Mixing Audio in Premiere & Using Markers
Duplicating an Audio Track to Raise Volume
Adding & Naming Chapter Markers
Encoding Your Project for Encore DVD
Part 4 – Multicam & Synchronization
1. Syncing Source Tracks
Syncing Clip 1 for Multicamera Editing
Syncing Clips 2 & 3 for Multicamera Editing
Importing a Track from a CD Into Premiere Pro
2. Syncing Picture to Sound
Syncing Clips Using Numbered Clip Markers
Deleting & Placing Audio Tracks into the Timeline
Expanding Track Size to Increase Waveform Visibility
Using Waveforms to Precisely Sync Audio
Nest Sequences & Enable Multicam Editing
3. Multicam Edit View
Performing Realtime Multicamera Editing
Working in the Timeline with Multicamera Edits
Performing Punch in Recording
4. Building DVDs in Premiere
Authoring a Simple DVD in Premiere Pro
Adding DVD Scene Markers & Menus
Controlling the Poster Frame & Motion of Menu Buttons
Exporting a Premiere Pro Sequence for Clip Notes
Adding Comments in Adobe Clip Notes
Importing & Viewing Clip Notes Comments in Premiere Pro
Looking at the Stream Video Export Option
Part 5 – Authoring DVDs with Encore DVD
1. Interface, Tools & Menus
Importing Files as Assets & Menus
Arranging a Workspace & the Layers Panel
Understanding Button Structure
2. Buttons & Sub-Navigation Systems
Placing Menu Assets into a Timeline
Looking at the Flowchart Editor
Adding a Menu from Encore DVD’s Library
Using the Flowchart Editor to Set Menu Navigation
Adding & Linking Chapters to a Submenu
Changing & Resizing Chapter Names
3. Menu Transitions with After Effects
Adjusting the Hue of the Menu in Photoshop®
Preparing to Make a Motion Menu
Generating a Lens Flare in After Effects
Creating the Lens Flare Transition
Adding the Transition to the DVD Navigation
4. Flowchart Editor & The Project Checker
Importing & Placing Assets into Timelines
Adding the Open & Music Video to the Navigation
Editing Menu Button Text
Using Check Project to Identify Missing Links
Toggling the Visibility of Button Layers
Setting Links in the Properties Panel
5. Building & Burning DVDs
Previewing Your DVD Content
Building the DVD
Modifying DVD Project Settings
Part 6 – Adobe Audition 2.0
1. The User Interface & the “Views”
Customizing a Workspace
Selecting, Scrubbing & Context Menus
Setting Up Audio Hardware
Setting Preferences
Edit View Workspaces & the Files Panel
Scrubbing, Selecting & Zooming in Edit View
Adding, Editing & Naming Markers
Spectral & Waveform Views, Pre/Postroll Options & XMP
Converting Sample Types & Saving Files
Adjusting Track Heights & Multitrack Workspaces
Introducing the Audio Mixer
Importing Files in the Multitrack, Duplicating & Snapping
Cutting, Copying, Pasting & Selecting Tracks
Saving Sessions & Exporting an Audio Mix Down
Working in the CD View
2. Effects, Presets & The New Mixer
Applying & Adjusting Real-time Effects
Saving Presets & Applying an Effect to a Send & Bus
Send Controls, Post & Pre-fader Sends
Adding Multiple Tracks to a Send & Bus
Applying Multiple Effects to a Send & Bus
Using the Tube-modelled Compressor & Freezing Tracks
Performing a Mix Down
Applying Effects to the Mastering Rack
Viewing the Phase & Frequency Analysis
3. Working in the Spectral View
Understanding The Spectral Frequency Display
Recognizing Unwanted Noise Frequencies
Using The Spectral Controls
Using The Phase & Frequency Analysis Panels
Understanding The Spectral Pan Display
Understanding The Spectral Phase Display
4. New Sessions & Importing Files
Creating a New Session & Adding Tracks
Importing Sound Files Via Adobe Bridge
Building Tracks & Extracting Audio From CD
Changing the Key of Individual Files & Globally
Changing the Tempo of Individual Files & Globally
Playing Overlapping Clips on a Single Track
Snapping, Dragging & Performing a Time Stretch
Listening to the Assembled Session
5. Mixing & Automation
Working with Clip Envelopes
Automating Parameters in the Touch & Write Modes
Working with Automation Lane Envelopes
Automating a Send Level of a Track
Using the Latch Automation Mode
Adding EQ on the Master Fader
Applying a Multiband Compressor
Using Bounce to New Track to Sub-mix Tracks
6. Pops, Pings & Plosives
Introducing Noise Reduction
Advanced Noise Reduction Techniques
Saving Noise Profiles
Removing Pings
Removing Plosives
Removing Thuds
Removing Pops
7. Working with Voice-Over Tracks
Using the Dynamics Processor
Using the Parametric Equalizer
Using the FFT Filter & Repair Transient Command
Trimming Audio for a Smooth Flow
Enhancing the Voice-Over with Delay Effects
Adding a Music Bed
Adding Multiband Compressor & Studio Reverb
8. Premiere Pro & Surround Encoding
Using the Edit Original Command
Using the Surround Encoder
Keyframing Surround Sound Audio with Pan Envelopes
Multichannel Export Options
Making Dynamic Changes in Audition & Premiere Pro
Importing & Converting Different File Types
9. Live Multitrack Recording Session
Preparing for a Live Recording Session
Recording the Drum Track
Recording the Piano Track
Recording the Organ Track
Recording the First Vocal Track
Recording Vocal Harmonies
Loop-Recording a Punch In
Preparing for Multitrack Editing
Trimming & Editing Tracks
Replacing Instrument Tracks with Loopology Files
Performing a Live Mix
Using Equalization to Balance the Mix
Finalizing the Mix
Using the Multiband Compressor
Mixing Down to a CD
Part 7 – Adobe Encore DVD
1. Interface, Panels & Importing Assets
Exploring the New Interface & Adjusting Panels
Creating Workspaces, New Item, & Library Sets
Bringing in Assets with Adobe Bridge
Reviewing Preferences & Importing Assets
2. Working with Timelines
Adding Video & Audio to the Timeline
Setting Chapter Points in a Timeline
Chapter Points, Poster Frames & Thumbnails
Setting End Actions & Menu Buttons
Setting First Play & Timeline User Operations
Importing Text Script for Subtitles
Creating & Adjusting Subtitle Text & Properties
Importing FAB Images & Image Script
Set End Actions for Chapter Points & Chapter Playlists
3.Menus & Using Photoshop
Applying a Preset Motion Menu
Linking Chapter Points to Buttons
Switching Menus & Automated Chapter Indexing
Modifying Menu Text & Backgrounds
Adding Layer Sets & Text Styles
Making Adjustments to Menus in Photoshop
Adding Buttons & Converting Text into a Button
Choosing a Background & Using Replacement Layers
Creating & Controlling Button Highlights
Creating a Menu Button from Scratch
Changing Highlight Colors Using Menu Color Set
4. The Slideshow Editor
Importing Images & Organizing Your Workspace
Working with the Slideshow Audio Options
Adding Transitions, Pans, & Zooms
Adding Subtitles & Descriptions to Slides
5. Working with Flowchart
Introducing the Encore DVD Flowchart
Linking Buttons to Menus & Timelines
Checking & Previewing Your DVD Project
6. Playing Well With Others
Encore DVD & Premiere Pro Integration
Editing an Original Audition Multitrack Session
Launching an Original File in Audition Edit View
Performing a Group Waveform Normalize
Creating Dynamic Motion Menus Using After Effects
Linking the After Effects Project to the Encore Timeline
Adding Audio to the Motion Menu in After Effects
7. Building the DVD
Exploring the Build DVD Panel
Transcoding a DVD & Creating Transcode Presets
Exploring the Disc Panel & Project Settings
Advanced Adobe After Effects 7 Pro: Broadcast Design Secrets
Category: Multimedia & Video
Presenter: Dean Velez
Platform: Windows & MAC OS
Format: Online
Running Time: 7 Hrs
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Project Files: Included
Description
Discover real strategies of broadcast design and how to think like a broadcaster with host Dean Velez, an Emmy award-winning broadcast designer. An advanced approach to common features enables you to create extraordinary and inventive results from simple source materials, with a minimum of time and effort.
Course Outline
Part 1 – News Bumper
Prologue – Crreating a Style Page
1. Creating a Background in Adobe Photoshop
2. Adding Text to Enhance Background Texture
3. Creating a Broadcast Style Logo
4. Adding Color & 3D Effects
Chapter 1: Background & Foreground
1. Creating a Cloud Effect Using Fractal Noise
2. Distorting the Clouds
3. Adding Lightning Flashes to the Clouds
4. Creating a Rain Effect
5. Using Advanced Lighting
6. Creating a Foreground Layer
7. Adding Vector Blur to the Foreground
8. Rendering the Compositions
Chapter 2: Storm Tracker Logo
1. Setting Up Text for the Storm Tracker Logo
2. Scale Text, Graph Editor & Grouping Alignment
3. Animating the Tracking Amount
4. Using Masks & Precomposing
5. Using the Fast Blur Effect
6. Creating a Null Object
7. Adding an Adjustment Layer & the Ramp Effect
8. Using the Directional Blur Effect
9. Using the Levels Effect
10. Using the Simple Choker Effect
11. Setting Up the Logo to Render
Chapter 3: Glow Transition
1. Applying Choke Matte & Fractal Noise Effects
2. Applying Radial Fast Blur & Vector Blur
3. Adding Text to the 7 Logo
4. Creating a Path for Text Animation
5. Adjusting Position, Scale & Rotation of Text
6. Applying Force Motion Blur & Other Blurs
7. Duplicating Properties & Creating a New Path
Chapter 4: Assembling Storm Tracker
1. Starting a Composition & Adding Radio Waves
2. Animating Background Text
3. Creating & Using a Null Object
4. Layering Animations to Create Realistic Effects
5. Tweaking Effects to Interact with Animation
Part 2 – Opening Title Sequence
Chapter 5: Weaving a Web
1. Creating a Spiderweb in Photoshop
2. Adding Texture & Depth to the Spiderweb
3. Duplicating & Offsetting Layers for a 3D Effect
4. Using a Null Object to Control the Web Layers
5. Adding Depth & Shadows to the Web Layers
6. Adding a Camera to Create Depth of Field
7. Using a Median Effect to Blur
8. Creating a Lighting Effect Using Glow
Chapter 6: Animating a Stroke
1. Setting Up a Stroke
2. Applying Fast Blur & Time Stretch to a Stroke
3. Using the Echo Effect
4. Applying Glow Effect to the Animated Stroke
5. Using the Stroke as a Background Animation
Chapter 7: Spider Walking
1. Animating the Head, Body & Rear of the Spider
2. Animating the Spider’s Front Leg
3. Animating the Spider’s Back Leg
4. Duplicating Layers to Make All Eight Legs
5. Softening the Look of the Spider
Chapter 8: Web of Deceit Logo
1. Duplicating & Blending Layers
2. Animating Text with Effects
3. Adding an Adjustment Layer to Adjust Levels
4. Importing the Spider Walking Movie
5. Using Linear Wipe to Animate Web Line
Chapter 9: Assembling the Web of Deceit
1. Compositing the Title Sequence
2. Animating the Tracking of the Text
3. Using a Simple Choker as a Wipe Transition
4. Duplicating the Effects for the Second Name
5. Adding Our Logo & Finishing Touches
Part 3 Corporate Identity Piece
Chapter 10: Techno Tunnel Background
1. Adding Side-to-Side Motion to 10 Shapes
2. Applying the CC Cylinder Effect
3. Adding Rotation to the Tunnel
4. Moving through the Tunnel with a Camera Layer
5. Duplicating & Offsetting Layers
6. Adding Rotating Man File & Fast Blur Effects
7. Colorizing, Transfer Modes & Bit Depth
Chapter 11: Futuristic Background
1. Exploring the Shape Layers in Photoshop
2. Adjusting Scale, Opacity & Rotation of Layers
3. Changing the Y Rotation & Adjusting the Timing
4. Precomposing Layers & Adjusting Time Stretch
5. Setting Scale & Rotation of the Shapes Layers
6. Changing the Transfer Modes of the Layers
7. Changing Layer Alignment to Fix the Animation
Chapter 12: Mosiac Man Elements
1. Animating Wireframe Man, Mosaic & Invert
2. Using Algorithms & Encoders with Text
Chapter 13: 3D Guy
1. Starting the Comp & Adding the Toner Effect
2. Applying a Mask
3. Creating a Circular Track Matte
4. Applying Tint, Simple Choker & Levels Effects
5. Working with Multiple Masks
6. Using Animation to Hide Masks & Mattes
7. Tweaking the Animation & Rendering
Chapter 14: Edward Biogenics Logo(EBG Logo)
1. Adjusting Anchor Point to Animate Text
2. Creating Lines from a Solid & Animating Them
3. Applying the Card Dance Effect to the Logo
4. Applying CC Force Motion Blur to the Logo
5. Using Card Dance to Create the Logo Background
Chapter 15: Assembling EBG Open
1. Combining Animations with a Difference Matte
2. Framing a Comp with Masks & Other Effects
3. Adding Feathers & Overlays to a Composite
4. Enhancing Animation Using Solids
5. Affecting & Animating Text Properties
6. Assembling the Final Comp
7. Creatively Transitioning Between Scenes
Microsoft Expression Encoder 2: Essentials
Category: Development & Programing
Presenter: Brian Maffitt & Jason Barbosa
Platform: Windows & MAC OS
Format: Online
Running Time: 1.5 Hrs
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Project Files: Included
Description
Expression Encoder offers the fastest way to publish media assets to the web in a Silverlight experience. With series Presenters Brian Maffitt and Jason Barbosa leading the way, you’ll get an overview of Encoder as well as an introduction to the basics of video compression and how that can be applied to Expression Encoder 2. You’ll enjoy a quick tour of the interface and go into some theoretical encoding sessions. The series also includes a look at live encoding and working with Silverlight templates. This series is just what you need to get up and running fast on working with Expression Encoder.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: The Interface & Core Functionality
1. Introduction to Expression Encoder
2. Customizing the Interface
3. Importing Content
4. Previewing Compression Settings
5. Making Edits
6. Smart Recompression & Adding Overlays
7. Adding Metadata & Markers
8. Generating Captions via Scripting
Chapter 2: Understanding Video Compression in Encoder 2
1. Codecs, Data Rate, Compression Types & Delivery
2. Group of Pictures (GOP)
3. Encoding Methods
4. Resolutions, Formats & File Types
5. Encoding for the Web
Chapter 3: Encoding Multiple Assets
1. Creating a Job for Encoding Multiple Files
2. Encoding a File with a Silverlight Player
3. Encoding with Command Prompt
Chapter 4: Live Encoding
1. Introduction to Live Encoding
2. Output Settings
3. Recording a Live Encode
Chapter 5: Editing Silverlight Player Templates
1. Silverlight Template Job Output Options
2. Customizing a Silverlight Template in Expression Blend
3. Encoding & Previewing a Silverlight Video
4. Final Comments & Credits
Prospective Job Titles: Multimedia Developer, Video Editor, Film Editor, Multimedia Engineer,
Multimedia Designer
Average Salary: £50,000 p.a. as a Multimedia Developer with experience
Source: ITjobswatch.com
Previous Experience Required: None
Related Areas of Employment: Film and Television, Advertising, Radio, Events, Special Effects
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