Learn FINAL CUT EXPRESS 4 with Izzy Video Tutorials

ATTN: Footage Shooters!

There is a free set of tutorials for Final Cut Express 4 available online done by Izzy Hyman.  There are 9 lessons with a total of 2.5 hours of tutorial.  A few of us in the office went through these tutorials and learned almost everything we needed to know for submitting quality edited clips.  It breaks down the editing process and color correction in a few short and easy to follow segments, and even teaches a lot of keyboard shortcuts to further simplify post-production.

You can find this tutorial and many others at: www.izzyvideo.com

The Final Cut Express tutorial is on the products page at http://www.izzyvideo.com/learn-final-cut-express/ and just follow the instructions on the page. The tutorial is available to download in it’s entirety in the zip file called Learn_FCE.zip.  Also download the sample videos  from the link at the Chapter 1 table of contents called ch01media.zip.  He uses these clips to create a fully rendered video and you learn by watching the tutorials in QuickTime, while copying what he does step by step in Final Cut Express!

This is a very powerful and useful tool for our mac users! Take a look and start editing… Good Luck!

Footage Seminar Postponed

We are very sorry to announce that our upcoming series of Footage seminars, scheduled to begin on April 5th, have been suddenly postponed. Our web broadcast service Creative Techs has taken on a new owner and changed their name to Creative Live. They are also re-evaluating their upcoming curriculum and are unable to give us a new start time for the series, or even acknowledge that they will honor their commitment to us for the broadcasts.

9 days before our first class was scheduled to start, we received an email from owner Craig Swanson as follows:

“I’m sorry to do this. …there are some big changes coming up for our classroom in April.  Chase Jarvis is now a co-owner of our online classroom, and we’re having to adjust some schedules around some big events that he is part of rolling out.”

Needless to say, this unprofessional behavior is unacceptable to us and we are now looking for alternative ways to conduct and deliver the seminars. We will let you all know as soon as suitable arrangements have been made.

In the meantime, please don’t stop shooting and submitting your footage! If you have not yet started, talk with Danita or Jeff Lawrence about how to submit your clips. The web site is still going live with footage on April 5th as originally planned and we are adding clips as soon as they are ready.

While we were hoping to save the following announcement for our April 12th seminar on editing footage, we are pleased to announce that we have made arrangements to provide our photographers with extremely reasonable pricing on post production of footage clips! Remember when you used to send your film in for processing? Well now that same convenience is available for editing your footage clips! Just send in raw footage in clips of 60 seconds or less and you will get back time edited, color corrected, and keyworded clips ready for submission to us for immediate uploading. And if you need special effects like zooming or panning added in post, this too can be done at low cost. Just contact us for pricing.

We hope this hasn’t caused you any inconvenience. We’ll keep you posted!

Save the Date – Stock Footage Webinar

Photo © Larry Ditto / DanitaDelimont.com

Although shooting video with DSLR cameras may be intimidating and confusing at first we feel that with the right guidance and information everyone can learn to embrace it and produce quality footage. As we have been moving into the footage market over the past few months we have come across many experts, useful tools, software and hardware that have proven to be very valuable. We are encouraging all of our still shooters to get into this new market and we now can show you how to do so with just a short learning curve and a modest investment in gear.

We are pleased to announce that DanitaDelimont.com will be presenting a FREE 5 week online footage course for our contracted photographers starting April 5th.  Each Monday classes will be streamed live online from the Creative Techs classroom at Art Wolfe’s studio in Seattle and will also be available later for downloading from the Creative Techs website.

The program is titled “Producing Great Stock Footage with Your DSLR”. Each week we will tackle different topics and will have various experts and product representatives leading the discussions. We will be updating you as the schedule is finalized, but be sure to mark Monday, April 5th at 11:00 AM Pacific time and the following four Mondays on your calendar.  There are also seats available in the studio audience so if you are in Seattle, please attend the live session!

We look forward to helping you get acquainted with shooting and processing footage.  Let us help you to add a great new revenue stream to your business with much less effort than you ever imagined!

Seattle Area Organization Offering FREE Final Cut Pro Classes!

From the site:

It’s our first Final Cut Pro course! But we need your help. We need at least 1,500 people signed up in order to hold this FREE course. So sign-up and help  spread the word. The 5-week course starts Wednesday, Feb 17.

This course is our first test teaching Final Cut Pro in our worldwide classroom, if this first test goes well, we’ll be able to offer extended courses on this topic.

ENROLL HERE: Getting Started with Final Cut Pro!
Course Dates: Wednesdays, February 17 – March 17, 2010
Time: 11am Pacific (Seattle) [Other Time Zones]
Duration: 90-120 Minutes
Cost: The LIVE event is FREE to attend!

Feb 17, Final Cut Pro Course Overview.
Feb 24, Week 1 – Setting Up a Project (Interface & Preferences).
Mar 3, Week 2 – Importing, Managing, and Editing Footage.
Mar 10, Week 3 – Transitions, Effects, and Video Generators.
Mar 17, Week 4 – Media Management and Output.