If you really want to know what folks mean when they say "fix it post" enroll in the Editor Fast Track. You'll learn Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, audio postproduction, aesthetics of editing and color correction, all online with personalized instruction from expert teachers. Includes a BAVC membership for one year.
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"We'll fix it in post." You've heard that phrase to justify less-than-desirable production results but the old chestnut can also refer to moving the story along. The decisions you make while editing brings the power to a film or video. It helps viewers make connections, be in on the secret, or turn what they're watching into an art form. As Ralph Rosenblum says in his industry-renown classic, When The Shooting Stops, The Cutting Begins, the footage "must now be selected, tightened, paced, embellished, arranged, and in some scenes, given artificial respiration." BTW, Ralph Rosenblum edited Woody Allen's Annie Hall, and transformed a chaotic, meandering string of bits into an Oscar-winning film.
In this film editing class, we will leave software and hardware behind and focus on the art and craft of cutting. You'll explore well known concepts used by Hollywood movie makers, independent film and videomakers and storytellers world renown. Examples will be drawn from narrative and documentary films as well as from music videos, commercials and experimental films. You'll walk away from this online class with a solid understanding of:
PLEASE NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW TAUGHT ONLINE USING ZOOM!
This online class introduces students to the powerful color correction tools in Davinci Resolve Lite. The class focuses on color correction and color correction workflows for finishing films. Topics covered:
Learn high-end editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC. With its new revolutionary features, Premiere is better than ever. Come see what the buzz is about! You'll learn:
PLEASE NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP IS TAUGHT ONLINE USING ZOOM!
This online course covers basic work-flow techniques of audio post-production for film and commercial productions. Learn the art of audio clean-up and restoration using tools within Adobe Premiere CC and Adobe Audition CC. This course is designed to build skill-sets for increasing the quality of audio in your own projects. Learn how to apply equalization filters to voice-over and dialogue content and compression/limiting techniques to balance audio levels.
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BAVC offers Audio Post Production classes in San Francisco; and many students come to us with an interest in taking a San Francisco Audio Post Production, as a critical element of film and videography training. Whether you are interested scene transition, music underscoring and production training, this class will draw students from San Francisco and all over the Bay Area. Students even attend from Oakland or Marin County.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS WORKSHOP IS TAUGHT ONLINE USING ZOOM!
BlackMagicDesign is on a bold mission to deliver the industry color correction darling, DaVinci, to serious editors. They've bundled the DaVinci tools with what eerily seems similar to Apple's now defunct Final Cut 7 platform and packaged it at a super affordable price. Enter DaVinci Resolve: Introduction at BAVC. Resolve plays nice with Adobe After Effects, in fact, with the whole Adobe Creative Cloud. In this two-day class you'll be given a tour of the interface and see how Resolve works from beginning to end.