Day one

Introduction and Setup

• Understanding the composition of a video file

• Types of codecs and their uses

• Resolution, frame-rate, bit-rate, aspect ratio and progressive and interlaced video

Assembly

• Editing and adding metadata to clips

• Creating and switching between Proxy files to speed up your experience

• Interpreting Footage and changing clips audio channels

• Synchronising separately recorded sound and video

Core Editing Enhancements

• Editing with tracks and using track select

• Using the Ripple and Roll tools

• Precision Trimming of clips in the timeline

• Unlinking video and audio

Multicam Editing

• Syncing multiple angles of footage

• Switching tracks in real-time

• Adjusting colour across multiple clips

• Working with more than two angles

Sound Mastering and Enhancement

• Sample level editing

• Cleaning, enhancing and removing reverb with EQ

• Compressing sound using the Dynamics Effect

• Track based audio effects

Project and Media Management

• Moving and backing up your project

• Using the Project Manager

Questions and answers

Day two

Animation

• Blurring out faces and text with a tracking mask

• Setting keyframes for image and video animation

• Easing your animations with Temporal Interpolation

• Animating Graphics for simple text and shape template animations

Enhancing Graphics

• How to create burnt-in captions for YouTube, Facebook and Twitter

• Creating Graphics Templates

• Animating elements in your graphic

• Exporting Graphics for use on other machines

Advanced Effects and Nesting

• Green screen effects with Ultra Key

• Using improved slo-motion effects

• Reversing and optical flow of video

• Using the warp stabilizer effect

Colour Correcting

• Colour correcting your master clips to save time

• Using Hue and Saturation curves to create secondary colour corrections

• Using adjustment layers to save time

Rendering and Export

• Understanding rendering and real time playback

• Exporting for the web and social platforms

• Output to mobile devices

• Queuing your exports to save time

Questions and answers