Final Cut Pro Beginners One Day Course
Short course
In London
Description
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Type
Short course
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Level
Beginner
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Day
Suitable for: Anyone wanting to take the first step in learning digital editing.
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About this course
Students should be Mac or PC literate and fluent in English.
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Teachers and trainers (1)
Pierre Vella
Independent Digital Creative and Trainer
Pierre Vella is an independent digital creative working in film, video and digital technologies. He is a founding member of MITA (Moving Image Training Alliance) and runs a series of training programmes in film and video post-production, web technologies and motion graphics in London as well as training MA students in video editing at the University of Cambridge.
Course programme
Course Overview
This intensive one day course will give you a comprehensive introduction to video basics of editing, using the industry-standard editing software Final Cut Pro 7 (Final Cut Studio 3). With the solid grounding that this course provides, you should have few problems with basic editing in the future.
The course is condensed in one day. Media for use in class is provided, along with comprehensive accompanying notes.
Course Outcomes
Upon completing this course, you will:
• Know how to set up Final Cut Pro to minimise the risk of data-loss
• Be able to identify different audio/video cables and their uses
• Be able to set up an edit suite
• Be able to capture and ingest video in an ordered and logical manner
• Be able to perform a ‘three-point edit’ and target different tracks
• Understand how to mark footage and how this is useful in the edit
• Be able to edit a short sequence of digital video using a variety of edit tools
• Be able to edit audio on the soundtrack and understand how to adjust levels
• Know how to add titles and transition effects to an edit
• Be able to use the ‘Share’ function to produce DVDs, YouTube clips and other media-types from a finished edit
Final Cut Pro Beginners One Day Course