Private Training
Video Production
Private training: $89 per hour
This class will teach you what you need to know to shoot a professional looking video. Students are encouraged (but not required) to bring their own cameras.
Potential Topics include:
- Camera features, formats and codecs
- Lenses: prime vs zoom
- Lens mounts, apertures, and filters
- HD formats compared
- Depth of field
- Auto vs. Manual Settings
- Composition
- Camera Angles
- Tripod and Camera Movement terminology
- Shooting for Post-production
- White Balance
- Rack Focus
- 3 Point Lighting
- Tungsten vs. Fluorescent vs. LED lights
- Interview and talking head lighting
- Microphones
- Green screening
- Sound Recording Techniques
- Audio Mixers
Instructor: Ted Maynard
Call to Register: 203-795-6400
Adobe After Effects
Private training: $89 per hour
Learn the animation techniques and capabilities of Adobe After Effects CC. This program is extremely popular for creating complex multi-layer video composites with sophisticated motion, scale & opacity control. Learn about After Effects extensive keying, animation, special effects, 3D, animation, transparency and layering techniques.
Potential Topics include:
- Composition Settings
- Importing File Footage
- File Formats
- Keyframe Assistant
- Navigating
- Working with High-Res images
- Photoshop files
- Keyframing
- Bezier motion paths
- Alpha Channels
- Masks
- Chroma keys
- Video Preview
- 3D Layers
- 3D Cameras and Lights
- Camera Tools
- Material Options
- Text Animation
- Behavior Presets
- Rotoscoping
- Track Mattes
- Motion Sketch
- Hand Drawn Motion Paths
- Shape Based Motion Paths
- Shape Layers
- Solid Layers
- 3D fly-throughs
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Students work on a Macintosh production system, though applicable for Macintosh or Windows.
Instructor: Ted Maynard
Call to Register: 203-795-6400
Adobe Premiere Pro
Private training: $89 per hour
Learn how to edit in Premiere Pro CC. This program is extremely popular with professionals for editing anything from a video for the web to a feature film. Includes details on proper workflow, working with all kinds of media, editing tools, shortcuts and much more.
Potential Topics include:
- Project settings
- Importing Footage
- File Formats and Organization
- LUTs and Color Grading
- Working with all kinds of camera footage
- Photoshop integration
- After Effects Integration
- Linking and Relinking
- Audio and Video Effects
- Keyframing and animation
- Chroma keying
- Audio Editing
- Lower Thirds and Titles
- Roll, Slip and Rate Stretch Tools
- Slow Motion
- Transparency Methods
- Timeline Settings
- Rendering
- Format Output
- Closed Captions
- Codecs
- Frame Rates
- Broadcast Conforming
- SD, HD, 2K, 4K, 5k, etc. Workflows
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Students work on a Macintosh production system, though applicable for Macintosh or Windows.
Instructor: Ted Maynard
Call to Register: 203-795-6400
Adobe Photoshop
Private training: $89 per hour
Adobe Photoshop CC is the world’s most popular image editing software; a must for photographers and anyone involved with producing art for print, multimedia, the web, or video.
Potential Topics include:
- Memory Settings
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Color Theory
- Navigating
- Selecting Techniques
- Panel Management
- Tools
- Raw Format
- Compositing photos together
- Layers
- Color Correction
- File formats
- Modes
- Transforms
- Type
- Filters
- Retouching
- Advanced Adjustment Layers
- Layer Groups
- Alpha Channels
- Quick Mask Mode
- Gaussian Drop Shadows
- Content-Aware Scale
- Fill Layers
- Black & White Conversion
- Blend Modes
- Mixed Resolution issues
- Image Resizing Techniques
- Bridge
- Styles
- Actions
- Batch Automation
- Layer Comps
- Layer Masks
- Smart Objects
- Keyboard Shortcuts
Taught on a Macintosh system
Instructor: Ted Maynard
Call to Register: 203-795-6400