FP 412 Course Schedule

Week One (Jan 12)
Course Outline, course schedule, course website, “Lunchbox” requirements, assignments.

Week Two (Jan 18)
Animating effects: animating filters and motion parameters with keyframes, altering keyframe interpolation, creating simple and complex motion paths, adjusting a motion path’s velocity, creating a closed motion path.

Week Three (Jan 25)
Layer Techniques: layer fundamentals, advanced layer techniques, nesting, layer sequences, splitting layers.

Week Four (Feb 2)
Colour correcting basics: maximizing an image’s brightness and contrast range, colour balancing images, achieving a particular look or mood, matching colour and brightness between shots, ensuring broadcast safe chroma and luma values, creating colour effects

Week Five (Feb 9)
Alpha channels, mattes and keys: Alpha channel basics, creating alpha channels, creating alpha channels using Travel mattes, interpreting alpha channels.

Week Six (Feb 16)
Composite Modes and video generators: composite mode basics, composite mode effects, generator basics, filter and mode effects with generators, generators and travel matte effects, using generators for travel mattes, advanced generator effects.

Week Seven (Feb 23)
Filter techniques: how filters work, applying filters in the right order, advanced filter effects.

Week Eight (March 2)
Mixing sound: using FCP as a mixer, audio effects, mixing techniques, recording audio keyframes, audio file strategies, exporting audio, OMF files.

Week Nine (March 9)
TORONTO

Week Ten (March 16)
SPRING BREAK

Week Eleven (March 23)
Mpegs and compression, advanced compressing techniques, VCD’s, DVD’s, streaming video, web based video compression mthids and results

Week Twelve (March 30)
DVD Studio Pro.

Week Thirteen (April 6)
More DVD Studio Pro

Week Fourteen (April 13),Week Fifteen (April 20), Week Sixteen (April 27)
TBA