Video Editing
Our video editing classes are offered several times a year and are available by special arrangement. Please contact us to schedule training if our published schedule doesn't fit your needs.
We offer training in Adobe Premiere, and Adobe After Effects.
Adobe After Effects CS4
Course length: 3 days
Prerequisite: Video Editing
Cost: $1125
After Effects is a multi-faceted compositing tool that allows you to combine video, photographs, scans, illustrations, PDFs, Flash animations, text, and music into motion graphics. This introductory class is designed to teach you the most important elements of After Effects.
Course Topics
- After Effects Workflow
- Basic and Advanced Animation
- Working with Layers
- Creating Transparency
- Using Masks
- Creating and Animating Text
- Incorporating Music
- Parenting and Nesting
- Tracking and Keying for Special Effects
- Creating and Animating Vector-based Shapes
- Rendering
Adobe Premiere CS4
Course length: 3 days
Prerequisite: Basic computer skills
Cost: $1125
Course Topics:
- Non-linear digital video editing
- Digital video concepts and key words
- Premere's interface
- Importing digital video, sound, graphics, and animation for use is a movie
- File formats for sound, graphics, and video
- Using Premiere's Project window to organize imported clips, artwork, and sound
- Assembling a movie using Premiere's Construction window
- Using transitions
- Importing and editing video and audio clips
- Importing Photoshop files
- Applying filters to clips to create special effects
- Using the motion command to animate video clips and still art
- Using the Titling window to create captions and titles
- Hardware requirements for digitizing video
- Customizing Premiere's preferences
- Creating a movie that includes still graphics, video, sound, text and simple animation