Post-Production Class Curriculum – February 5^th 2011

Welcome and Introductions

What editing suite are you using?

-         Final Cut Pro

-         Adobe Premiere

-         Avid

-         iMovie

Getting to know the Final Cut Pro interface

Following a Workflow

Organizing your clips

-         Creating and naming your bins

-         Marking clips

-         Creating Sub-clips

Editing Clips to the timeline

-         Your first sequence

-         Rough Cut

o   Basic Editing

§  Overwrites, Inserts, Drap-and-Drop, etc

§  Controlling your audio levels

§  Trimming footage

§  Transitions

§  Effects

Finalizing your video

-         Creating titles

o   Title Safe

-         Filters, Effects, and Motion

-         Exporting and Compression