Video Production Specialist Learning Path
Recommended Order of Courses for the Best Learning Path
Video Production Courses
Zero to Premiere Pro Hero in just 5 days and gain the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA)
- Navigate inside Premiere
- Understand the tools
- Organise projects
- Create and refine rough cuts
- Multipoint editing
- Use transitions
- Work with audio
- Create titles and credits
- Apply video effects
- Apply basic colour correction
- Output videos
- Use colour correction
- Apply advanced effects
- Understand compositing
- Work with green screen & keying
- Use advanced audio
- Create Multicam Projects
- Integrate with Adobe Media Encoder
- Integrate with Photoshop and After Effects
- Create dynamic links
- Take your Adobe Certification Exam
Course Duration: 2 Days
- Navigate inside Premiere
- Understand the tools
- Organise projects
- Create and refine rough cuts
- Multipoint editing
- Use transitions
- Work with audio
- Create titles and credits
- Apply video effects
- Apply basic colour correction
- Output videos
- And more
Course Duration: 3 Days
- Use colour correction
- Apply advanced effects
- Understand compositing
- Work with green screen & keying
- Use advanced audio
- Create Multicam Projects
- Integrate with Adobe Media Encoder
- Integrate with Photoshop and After Effects
- Create dynamic links
- Take your Adobe Certification Exam
Course Duration: 5 Days
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Create 2D animations
- Work with layers
- Apply effects
- Work with masks & mattes
- Use color effectively
- Understand keyframe complexity
- Render queue
- Track mattes
- Use keyframe graphic editor
- Work with expressions
- Use compound effects
- Motion stabilisation and tracking
- Render order/pre-composing
- Create 3D animation
- Prepare for the Adobe ACA Exam
Course Duration: 3 Days
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Create 2D animations
- Work with layers
- Apply effects
- Work with masks & mattes
- Use colour effectively
- Export files
Course Duration: 2 Days
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Understand keyframe complexity
- Use keyframe graphic editor
- Work with expressions
- Render queue
- Track mattes
- Use compound effects
- Motion stabilisation and tracking
- Render order/pre-composing
- Create 3D animation
- Prepare for the Adobe ACA Exam
Course Duration: 3 Days
By the end of this course, you will be able to
- Master the concepts of colour correction
- Work with advanced expressions
- Particles
- Use 3D lights & cameras
- Time remapping and motion tracking
- Speed up your workflow.
Course Duration: 3 Days
Learn the color correction and grading using DaVinci Resolve. This hands on training course will teach you the key tools & the colour correction & grading process. Learn the rules and process of Colour Correction, how to read scopes and use them to analyse and fix shots. Davinci Resolve Online Courses are also available as live & instructor-led and also offered as in-class training.
Course Duration: 2 Days
What you will learn
This course is designed to teach DaVinci Resolve and the basic principles and process of colour correction and grading to anyone with little or no prior experience. You will learn how to navigate the software interface, manage your media and basic editing, colour correction theory, primary correction, gradients and more.
Once you have completed the beginner course we recommend taking the intermediate course as well.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of video editing is desired.
Course Duration: 2 Days
What you will learn
We look at grading techniques that focus on preserving the quality of the original colour data of the footage – this will be accomplished through carefully constructed node workflows and correctly set up RAW projects. Grading styles and looks will be designed using a variety of advanced grading palettes in Resolve, together with the Resolve FX panel and group-based workflows. The session will end on developing a good understanding of delivery formats and workflows. This course is an ideal follow-up to Colour Grading in DaVinci Resolve or Editing in DaVinci Resolve but it is open to any colourist with hands-on experience.
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Are you interested in film or Television but do not want to be in front of the camera? A Video production specialist could be the perfect position for you. A Video production specialist helps to ensure that the videos and movies that make it to the screen are arranged so that they are ready for broadcast. Video production specialists are also responsible for making sure that the sound and video match up. They play a huge role in the quality of the video that makes it to your screen. This is one of the jobs where work experience will serve you better than the necessary formal education usually required with most positions.
Many roles these days do not have apprenticeships or volunteer opportunities. If they do, they do not always accept the experience in exchange for formal education. Generally, it is used in addition to formal education. However, as a video production specialist, any volunteer or intern/apprentice work can be exchanged for formal education. Technical skills and experience reign supreme. Video Production courses, however, will definitely help and will speed up the process. Consider courses in media production and video production. Video production specialists are also known as editors and they are part of the post-production team. Even video production specialists have specialties. You may be required to find out about the needs of the project, transfer firm or footage to the computer, examining footage, deciding what stays and what goes, cutting and joining pieces together using software applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. Most video editors will also be required to maintain the storyline in their heads, even while they are editing scenes that may not be in sequence. You may also need to work with numerous other production staff, including other editors.
If you are going to ensure you get the best possible job, it is important to make sure that you have the right experience with the software and the equipment necessary to edit video. The more experience you have, the greater your chances will be when you hit the job market looking for work.
Formulating a portfolio with show reels of previous work is a step you should take first. Many entrants come from a variety of different fields, such as animation, engineering, computer science, and industrial design. A company will typically look at a person’s practical skills, instead of an educational background.
Networking and doing numerous apprenticeship/internship jobs can be a great way to have your foot in the door when you start looking for a formal position. The better you were in those positions, the greater the chance is that you will have a leg up when it comes time to apply for a full time job. Becoming a video production specialist requires knowledge of editing software and equipment; it requires good networking and people skills to handle the team of people that generally accompany a production. You need to be able to work with everyone, from the director to the staff. This is a rewarding, productive, exciting career with advancing opportunities. Video production runs into movies, television, and the internet. Each has its own set of rules and methods. Additionally, you will get to meet many exciting and interesting people every day as part of your daily routine.
It is important that a Video Production specialist have certain characteristics or qualities to prepare them for the type of work they will encounter. A person who is naturally creative and imaginative is very successful in the Video Production industry, and additional knowledge about technical processes and computer technology is vital. Other personal characteristics include the ability to work in a team setting and the ability to communicate successfully and professionally. For a freelance Video producer, the above mentioned qualities are true, but it is also extremely important that they have organizational skills and self-motivation to help excel in the industry.
