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The PGA AP Council invites you to...

AVID MEDIA COMPOSER TRAINING
WITH FUTURE MEDIA CONCEPTS

Saturday, September 19
10:00am - 6:00pm, with an hour for lunch
299 Broadway btwn Duane St & Reade St., Suite 1510

PGA members only - $150
Limited spots available

This one-day intensive workshop at Future Media Concepts is tailor-made for the needs of a producer. It will be a hands-on experience (limited to only 10 participants) with the goal of learning the basics of editing a project in Avid from start to finish. 

The curriculum will include:

Lesson 1: How Workflow Makes, Manages, and Moves Media       
Goals of Great Workflows
Understanding Offline and Online Procedures
Understanding Media Clips
Media Drives Contain Media Files
Understanding Media Files,
Codecs are Secret Decoder Rings
Clips Are Linked to Media Files
Deep Dive into Media Files and Clips    
                    
Lesson 2: Professional Acquisition and Advanced Picture Editing                                    
File-Based Acquisition Using Import
File-Based Acquisition Using AMA/LINK
Working with Multiple Tracks, Cleaning Tracks
Enhancing Functions with Modifier Keys, Three-Point Editing Power User Tricks
Integrating Mixed Media, Modifying Motion Adapters, Reformatting Media
How Trimming Works, Trim Tool: Reloaded, Creating a Radio Edit
Using Dynamic Trimming, Using Split Edits, Advanced Trim Techniques       

Lesson 3: Multicamera Editing/Reality Show editing                                                 
Syncing sound and video
Setting Up, Grouping and Editing multiple camera angles
Editing Audio, Multi-camera Performance
Editing/trimming a Multi-camera Sequence
 
Lesson 4: Working with Multichannel Audio                                                           
Using the Track Control Panel,
Using the Audio Mixer for Multichannel Mixing                                                                  
Goals of Sound Mixing/What is Dynamic Range/Understanding the Mixing Workflow      
Understanding Audio EQ Tools and using the AudioSuite EQ Plug-In,
Attacking an Unwanted Noise, Introduction to AudioSuite Plug-Ins
Understanding Audio Mixdown Workflows,
Limiting and Compressing Peak Values                                                         
                                                                                   
Lesson 5: Wrapping Up a Project & Mastering the Media                          
Understanding the Media Tool
Clearing precomputes
Consolidate, Transcode, Export, Relinking and delete Media Files                                      
 
Lesson 6: Color Grading                                                          
Using Curves vs HSL color grading tools
Understanding the Y Waveform/Understanding the RGB Parade
Understanding the Vectorscope/Understanding the YC Waveform