Recommended skills required before this course:
Understanding of basic camera and editing terminology. Fluency with Apple Mac OS.

Day 1

• Camera introduction
• What is RED and where did it come from?
• Why choose RED over film or HD?
• Camera overview
• Inputs
• Accessories
• Modular design
• Storage and calculating your requirements
• Camera menus
• Resolutions and frame rates
• Lenses
• Red 4k vs 35 mm Film
• Project settings for production
• Shooting on RED – practical
• Data transfer and back up
• The role of the DIT (Digital Image Technician)
• Software and hardware for in the field DITs

Day 2

• Accessing and understanding your R3d files
• Transfer and manage your data safely
• Using proxy files to preview your raw material
• Categorising and organising your rushes using RED software
• One-light colour correction
• Transcoding
• Proxy workflow
• QuickTime outputs
• Creating rough edits
• Using native Prores in FCP
• Renaming conventions
• Exporting EDL/XML files from FCP
• Relinking & conforming your files
• Basic primary and secondary grades in Color
• Digital deliverables
• Troubleshooting

Duration – 2 Days
Scheduled Course Rate – £1,000 + VAT
Custom Course Daily Rate – £500 (per person per day + VAT)
Associated Exam – None

To book onto this course please call 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk

Recommended skills required before this course
Basic knowledge of the Macintosh OS
Preferably a good knowledge of FCP
Preferably an understanding of the principles of graphic design, animation and compositing (basic)

What’s covered on the course:

• Understanding behaviour-based animation and templates
• Working with blend modes
• Advanced particle system design
• Working with templates
• Masking methods
• Keyframing techniques
• Parameter behaviours
• Blend modes
• Advanced title animation
• Chroma key techniques
• Advanced 3D features
• Working with audio, keyframing, and integration
• Integration with other Final Cut Studio applications

Duration – 4 days
Scheduled course rate – £795 + VAT
Custom course daily rate – £500 + VAT
Associated exam – Motion 4 Level One exam

To book onto this course please call 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk

Recommended skills required before this course:
Basic knowledge of Mac OS X and a basic knowledge of audio terminology.

Total Duration – 4 days
Scheduled course rate – £795 + VAT
Custom course daily rate – £500 + VAT
Associated exam – Logic, level one to become an Apple Certified Pro

What’s covered on the scheduled course:

• Working with plug-ins
• Using audio instruments
• Editing audio regions
• Using the sample editor
• Navigating the song
• Previewing and using Loops
• Building an arrangement
• Mixing and exporting the mix
• Recording audio
• Digital audio recording settings
• Recording a single instrument
• Recording additional takes
• Recording takes in Cycle mode
• Recording multiple tracks
• Recording additional takes
• Punching in and out
• Adjusting settings
• Editing and deleting audio
• Importing audio files
• Comping takes
• Flatten take folder
• Using fades and crossfades
• Resizing an audio region
• Moving an edit point
• Cleaning a noisy take
• Using the sample editor
• Recording MIDI
• Using software instruments
• Quantizing a recording
• Using external MIDI hardware
• Merging new recordings
• Layering instruments
• Split a keyboard to control two instruments
• Editing and programming MIDI
• Importing MIDI files
• Editing in the Piano Roll editor
• Editing in the Score editor
• Editing in the Hyper editor
• MIDI continuous controller events
• Cleaning a MIDI Recording
• Programming drums and beats
• Editing velocity and accents
• Humanising a pattern and creating a snare roll
• Manipulating tempo and time
• Adjusting tempo to a loop
• Tempo changes and curves
• Time-stretching Audio and MIDI
• Using Apple loops
• Blue and green Apple loops
• Adding loops to a Lop browser
• Using the follow tempo function
• Arranging the song using the Grid
• Inserting time signature changes
• Using the Catch function
• Using the Skip
• Cutting regions Cycle mode
• Repeating sections
• Use aliases to build arrangements
• Using the Mixer
• Individual channel strips for ultrabeat
• Using the Library
• Using Buses
• Reading the meters
• Exporting your mix
• Burning a CD and exporting individual tracks
• Automating the mix
• Using Control Surfaces
• Region vs. track based automation
• Writing and editing offline and online automation
• Using external controllers
• Scoring movies
• Importing a movie file
• Detecting scene cuts
• Manipulating the grid
• Exporting your movie soundtrack
• Getting sound out and in
• Getting MIDI out and in
• Recover audio or MIDI Regions
• The System Performance meter
• Adding third party plug-ins

To book onto this course please call 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk

June 1st & 2nd 2010 – £675 + VAT

To reserve a space CALL NOW on 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk

About the Apple Final Cut Studio Color 1.5 Training Course

Start with the basics of colour balancing and correction and move on to the fine points of secondary grading and advanced effects trees. This course is designed for existing Final Cut Pro users who want to learn more about the colour correction and grading capabilities of Final Cut Studio.

Recommended skills for the Apple Final Cut Studio Color 101 Course

Basic knowledge of Mac OS X and a strong knowledge of Final Cut Pro 7 is advisable. Colourists who may have worked on alternative systems including Baselight, Quantel, Pogle and Film Master may find some of the information covered too basic but would however benefit from the interface and toolset overview.  Color is becoming a major player in the UK production and post market and we are gaining lots of interest in our Color course offerings.

What’s covered on the scheduled course:

• Setting up a project
• Contrast and colour balance
• The Color Corrector 3-Way Filter
• Setting the mood with the mids
• Using primary and secondary colour correction and grading
• Correcting & manipulating colour
• Scene continuity
• Achieving visual harmony
• Comparing two clips
• Scene-by-scene colour correction
• Color correcting a complete scene and project tasks
• Color’s task-based workflow
• Exploring the Setup room
• Applying basic grades
• Employing colour FX
• Panning and scanning
• Utilising still stores
• The Render Queue room
• Exploring the Primary room
• Using the Auto-balance control
• Color balance controls
• Grading with curves
• Keying with HSL
• Performing key-based and vignette-based secondaries
• Secondary curves
• Advanced secondary grading
• Using multiple secondaries
• Combining a key and a vignette
• Using multiple keys
• Creating custom mask shapes
• Incorporating curve effects
• Color effects
• Overview of the Color FX room
• Applying nodes
• Building colour effects
• Controlling node order
• Monitoring inactive nodes
• Adding nodes to existing trees
• Saving and reapplying effects
• Preset colour effects
• Managing grades on a single shot
• Switching between grades
• Add, duplicate and delete grades
• Setting the beauty grade
• Organising and saving corrections
• Moving grades from clip to clip
• Dragging individual corrections
• Applying grades to groups
• Animating effects in Color
• Manipulating keyframes
• Navigating to keyframes
• Deleting keyframes
• Keyframing other rooms
• Changing interpolation settings
• Animating user shapes
• Keyframing Color effects
• Using the Geometry room
• Recomposing shots
• Pan and scan effects
• Tracking objects
• Apply tracking data to corrections
• Offsetting the vignette and manual tracking techniques
• Primary out and rendering
• Global changes and final tweaks
• Modifying and replacing primary out room settings
• Manually controlling broadcast safe output
• Adjusting and limiting black and white level adjustments
• Adjusting Chroma levels
• Adding clips to the render queue
• Sending to Final Cut Pro
• Using Color’s archive feature
• Rotations and zooms
• Fixing your framing and creating custom shapes
• Tracking images
• Finalising grades and outputting
• Broadcast safe and render settings
• Final print and gather options
• Exporting JPEGs and archiving projects

To reserve a space CALL NOW on 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk

Recommended skills required before this course:
None specifically required although a knowledge of Adobe interfaces including Photoshop and a basic understanding of video manipulation are helpful.

Duration -  3 days
Scheduled course rate – £650 + VAT
Associated exam – none

What’s covered on the course:

• Navigating the Windows
• Using the tools and setting Preferences
• Importing and using images, eps and video clips
• Understanding layers and KeyFrames
• Creating and animating text
• Animation on Bezier Motion paths
• Filters and Effects
• Understanding layer masking
• Using markers for synchronising
• Working with sound
• The RAM playback engine and its parameters
• Types of KeyFrames and their uses
• Alpha, Matte, Key and Mask
• Auto-orient along a path
• Interacting with Bridge
• A comprehensive exploration of Filters and Effects
• Organising large projects
• Pre-composing by nesting compositions to create complex animations
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Safe Zones, Frame Rates and Compression
• Adjustment layers
• Rendering output for CD , DVD, Web and broadcast
• Multiple masks and their parameters
• Creating Shapes
• Fine-tuning animations by manually and numerically altering KeyFrame parameters
• Importing external files as compositions
• Working with DV, DV CAM, Fields, Mpeg, HDV and HD
• Video/composition speed changes and time remapping
• Introduction to 3D
• Creating 3D with real depth
• 3D Lights, Cameras and Animation
• Introduction to expressions

June 7th to 11th 2010 – £1000 + VAT

To reserve a space CALL NOW on 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk

What’s covered on the FCP200 course

Day 1

• Starting a project
• Importing and navigating clips
• Marking and editing clips
• Organising project elements
• Saving, Hiding and Quitting
• Building the rough cut
• Editing a rough cut
• Making overwrite edits
• Managing Timeline tracks
• Making insert edits
• Editing audio clips
• Creating a new version
• Drag-and-drop editing
• Changing the volume of clips
• Finishing the rough cut
• Adding cutaways
• Editing to narration, music, copying, cutting, pasting clips
• Screening & sharing a sequence

Day 2

• Trimming clip duration
• Rippling edit points
• Trimming clips on the V2 track
• Refining edit points
• Trimming two edit points
• Slipping one clip
• Rolling two edit points
• Sliding clips to refine position
• Dragging clips to new locations
• Keeping linked clips in sync
• Refining the editing process
• Labelling project elements
• Creating subclips
• Adding markers to clips
• Using markers to align actions
• Using storyboard editing
• Performing replace edits
• Editing multicam footage

Day 3

• Reconnecting media
• Mixed format sequences
• Working with master clips
• Logging information
• Finding project items
• Customising shortcut keys
• Button bars
• Saving and loading layouts
• Optimising user preferences
• Capturing & transferring footage
• Connecting sources for capture
• Choosing pre-set format settings
• Previewing & marking your source
• Logging clips
• Choosing settings and options
• Setting capture preferences
• Transfer from tapeless sources
• Applying and editing transitions
• Using the transition editor
• Previewing and rendering effects

Day 4

• Mixing audio tracks
• Organising & editing audio effects
• Using transitions to fade volume
• Use keyframes to change volume
• Using the audio mixer
• Recording a narration track
• Importing audio files
• Working with video generators
• Adding a lower third
• Applying a Boris title
• Adding mattes
• Effects and still images
• Creating a credit roll
• Using master templates
• Entering speed changes
• Creating a freeze frame
• Changing motion parameters
• Animating motion parameters

Day 5

• Applying and viewing video filters
• Modifying filter parameters
• Applying audio filters
• Using a colour correction filter and animating filters
• Finishing and outputting
• Detecting audio peaks
• Video levels for broadcast
• Using export options
• Backing up projects

Recommended skills required before attending the FCP 200 course:

• A strong understanding of TV and Video terminology
• Some experience of editing and post-production work flows
• Reasonable experience using Mac OS

To reserve a space CALL NOW on 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk

Recommended skills required before this course:
Basic OSX Mac knowledge and ideally students will have attended a Final Cut Pro 101 or 200 course previously.

Duration – 4 days
Scheduled course rate – £795 + VAT
Custom course daily rate – £500 + VAT
Associated exam – Apple Certified Pro, Final Cut Pro 7 Level Two

What’s covered on the scheduled course

• Asymmetrical trimming
• Advanced trim,
• Edit window techniques
• Multicamera editing
• Working with filters
• Variable speed
• Slow-motion techniques
• Audio editing
• Mixing and creation
• Colour correction
• Matching shots
• Finishing and final output
• Timing tools
• Loading clips
• Using match frame
• Using replace edit and Gang sync
• Working with trimming tools
• Numeric trimming
• Split edits
• Trim edit window
• Trimming under transitions
• Multicamera editing
• Working with multiple angles
• Applying effects to multiclips
• Sound editing
• Normalising tracks
• Noise reduction in Soundtrack
• Compression and Limiting
• Sound Mixing
• Using the FCP Meter
• Setting proper levels
• Dynamic range
• Performing real-time mixing
• Mixing in Soundtrack Pro
• Mixing in other tools
• Compositing and reviewing
• Motion basics
• Multilayered Show Open
• Composite modes
• Adding graphics from a layered Photoshop file
• Using Generators
• Copying attributes
• Creating a Travel matte
• Applying and modifying filters
• Modifying filter effects
• Managing filters
• Dynamic effects
• Keyframing basics
• Creating favourite motion effects
• Nesting sequences
• Applying effects to multiple clips
• Applying complex geometrics
• Changing render order
• Reordering motion effects
• Mixing sequence sizes
• Nesting as an editing Tool
• Variable speed
• Understand variable speed effects
• Using the Motion viewer
• Correcting contrast and balance
• The Color Corrector 3-way filter
• Setting mood with the mids
• Creating artificially high contrast
• Mids and whites
• Colour correct for scene continuity
• Achieving visual harmony
• Comparing two clips
• Setting up for scene-by-scene colour correction
• Colour correcting a complex scene
• Clip management in the database
• Working with timecode
• Merging clips
• Working with 16:9, 24p
• Master clip relationships
• Managing media
• Mixing formats
• Using the Media Manager
• Deleting unused media
• Offline/online workflows
• Importing and exporting
• Capturing from non-tape sources
• Exporting for the web and DVD
• Exporting audio

To book onto this course please call 01753 421 006 or email training@sequencetraining.co.uk