FCS Master

Soundtrack Pro is a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc., which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects. Soundtrack Pro is designed to be used in combination with Final Cut Pro, both of which are included in the Final Cut Studio box set. It supports a 'roundtrip' workflow, in which Final Cut Pro sequences can be exported as small reference files that include scoring markers.

Soundtrack Pro is a music composing and audio editing application.

Interface, Setup, and Input

• Working In the Interface
• Create a Multitask Project from Scratch
• Creating Suspense with Sound Design
• Building Suspense with Editing Techniques
• Repair Dialog in Waveform Editor
• Fixing Audio Files
• Working with Musical Content
• Recording and Mixing Studio Quality Music

Motion graphics are graphics that use video and/ or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or a transforming appearance. These motion graphics are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects. You will be learning everything about motion graphics including how to export them for synchronization for further processes.

Motion

Motion is an incredibly powerful graphics animation software package that allows you to create stunning visual graphics and special effects. These effects are designed to be implemented into Apple's Final Cut Pro software. Motion is extremely powerful, but yet very complex. This class will introduce you to the critical fundamentals to help harness the powerful features of Motion.

industry professionals are using Motion to add complex effects to their productions. Complex motion graphics are no longer limited to high end post production houses. Anyone who has Motion in combination with Final Cut Pro is now able to produce stunning motion graphics and animations within their projects.

• Interface, Setup, and Input
• Using Motion generators
• Working with layers and objects
• Using Apple motion effect templates
• Motion particles and parameter behaviours
• Advanced Motion particle design
• Using blend modes
• Volume 3 - using key framing and designing text effects
• Drawing motion gestures
• Keying
• Nonlinear Editing
• Audio and Markers
• Key-framing
• Creating frenetic text effects
• Video and File Formats

Finishing and outputting is as important as a safe landing for a plan. Without proper knowledge of this segment one cannot become a perfect video editor. One should know about creating DVD masters to send out for replication at production houses, and rendering of the projects into the DVD format without encoding to intermediary formats, and streamline production workflow and reduce overhead.

DVD Studio Pro

DVD Studio Pro is a high-end software tool published by Apple Inc. to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into the DVD format without encoding to intermediary formats. This streamlines the production workflow and reduces overhead.

• Planning Your Project
• Preparing Assets
• Starting a Project
• The DVD Studio Pro Interface
• Importing and Managing Assets
• Introduction to Creating Menus
• Creating Menus Using the Standard Method
• Using Templates, Styles, and Shapes to Create Your Menus
• Creating Menus Using the Layered Method
• Using Advanced Menu Features
• Creating and Editing Tracks
• Creating Slideshows
• Creating Subtitles
• Creating Scripts
• Establishing Connections
• Finishing a Project
• Using Advanced Features

Compressor

Compressor is used for encoding MPEG-1, MPEG-2 for DVD, QuickTime .mov, MPEG-4 (Simple Profile), MPEG-4 H.264 and optional (third Party and often commercial) QuickTime Exporter Components to export to Windows Media, for example. Among its other features is the ability to convert from NTSC to PAL and vice versa and the ability to 'up-convert' from Standard Definition video to High Definition video with feature detail detection to prevent serious quality losses.

Compressor is mainly used to encode Final Cut Pro projects into the necessary DVD MPEG-2 format. Filters can be applied to video during the conversion process, and the video can be cropped.

• An Introduction to Compressor
• Getting Started Quickly
• The Basic Transcoding Workflow
• The Compressor Interface
• Importing Source Media Files
• Creating, Previewing, and Modifying Settings
• Finalizing Jobs and Submitting Batches
• Creating AIFF Files
• Creating Dolby Digital Professional
• Output Files
• Creating DV Stream Output Files
• Creating Image Sequence Files
• Creating MP3 Output Files
• Creating MPEG-1 Output Files
• Adding Filters to a Setting
• Adding Frame Controls to a Setting
• Adding Geometry Settings
• Creating and Changing Destinations
• Using Droplets

Collaborative Project

Students will have to work with client side projects/ live projects and will have a degree of flexibility in choosing the orientation of their project. Students will work as a team and will be jointly responsible for the planning, conduct and outcome of the project, under the supervision of a member of staff acting as a guide. The project will be a significantly-sized production, with the objective of producing an output reflecting a real world need, together with accompanying documentation.

Learning Methodology:

• Implementation would be based on instructional design principles
• Classroom exercises, quizzes, and home assignments
• Continuous evaluation and feedback during the training
• Student has to pass through a very strong assessment system: Project Training,
• Practical Test, Theoretical Test, and a discussion (Viva)