Non-Linear Editing for Promos & News Opens

So, you have a non-linear editing box and you have writer/producers who've been through the 3 day workshop?but, they're not quite ready to make topicals that sing? Our specialty is providing the next and most critical step?what they specifically need to learn that's not in the book. We teach writer/producers (who often have very little editing experience) how to use the non-linear editing systems as a tool to put them in control of fulfilling their visions.

Perhaps the following case is the most similar to yours:

The writer/producers in the WABC7 Creative Services department relied on editors to edit their topicals on linear grass valley systems. The department purchased AVIDS and sent their writer/producers for basic training, however, months later, the AVIDS sat idle?nothing had changed. We were called in to get the producers editing their topicals. After working with each producer for three days on their own projects, they were immediately editing their own work, meeting their deadlines, controlling their own visions and prepared to advance on their own. In no time they were editing killer special report and image spots as well.

Whether working with small groups or one-on-one with individuals, the workshops we provide are very project specific. For example, if you want your producers to edit their own topicals, we work with samples of your topicals and topical beds.

The reason these custom workshops are most effective is because participants learn from a fellow promotions writer/producer/editor who specifically knows their needs.

Topics covered in this training:

• Putting the basics they've been introduced to into action.
• The best ways to get topicals looking great while meeting deadlines.
• Speed?Clarifying the functions most useful to topical producers so they can use limited time most effectively.
• Teaching them real time saving shortcuts.
• The best ways to work with templates and topical beds.
• Ways to make non-linear thinking and thinking in layers second nature.
• Mixing and layering audio.
• Working with and incorporating graphics.
• Moving 2 dimensional objects through 3 dimensional space.
• Positioning, cropping, keying, movement and variable motion.
• Understanding and working with key frames.