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Covers the most common questions videographers encounter when shooting and editing with DSLR cameras, from choosing a frame size and frame rate to understanding moiré.

Create significantly more professional footage with tools that do everything from removing noise to performing high-end color grading.

Follow along with a digital media producer and former TV news reporter as he plans and shoots a complete human-interest story.

Learn how to start a YouTube account, build a following, promote videos on Facebook and Twitter, and shoot and edit film specifically for a YouTube audience.

Follow Beeple, a motion graphics artist, whose Everyday Project drives him to learn new software, adopt fresh techniques, and create art for himself and others.

Industry-proven techniques for producing and shooting interviews.

Covers the new features of the EDUIS 6.5 real-time video-editing package, now offering advanced native stereoscopic editing support and a range of smaller but important improvements.

Learn how to build and refine your story with the redesigned editing toolset in Final Cut Pro X.

Walks through the process of getting your screenplay idea out of your head and onto the printed page.

Introduces the essential concepts and techniques necessary for shooting video with a DSLR camera.

Learn to manage a project and balance the goals, schedule, team members, and clients involved in a creative endeavor.

Introduces creative professionals to the core concepts of location scouting for video and photo projects.

Walks you through the Element 3D third-party compositing plugin for After Effects.

Learn how to shoot and edit green screen footage and images.

Covers some simple and inexpensive lighting techniques to make everyone look their best on camera.

The second installment in the On Camera series, which concentrates on enhancing your appearance on-screen with the right amount of makeup.

Covers the details of installing and updating applications with an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, and shows how to move content between devices with the cloud and work with Adobe Touch Apps.

Discover how to conduct yourself on camera and make a positive impression in front of the lens.

Capture footage of everyday objects and combine it with effects in popular postproduction tools like After Effects and Premiere Pro, resulting in rich, abstract backdrops for your project.

Explore how to ingest and organize tapeless media for post-production using Adobe Prelude.

Demonstrates how to build customized DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and Flash-based DVDs in Encore CS6.

This course details each of Story's three main functions: scriptwriting, collaborative editing, and production organizing.

Get up to speed on SmartSound Sonicfire Pro, a powerful music scoring application combined with a royalty-free music library.

Takes an in-depth look at the new and enhanced features in Audition CS6.

Find out how to perform a basic color grade, create looks, mask footage, and apply grades to multiple clips, and see how SpeedGrade fits into your overall post-production workflow.

Presents practical tips on shooting video with shots and angles that support your story and make it more visually interesting.

Introduces the core ideas behind how video cameras capture moving images, and explains how to light and mic a shoot.

Build your skills and start cutting with Adobe's nonlinear editor.

Guides you through the brand-new video workflow in Photoshop, from building a sequence to working with audio and exporting your video in a variety of high-quality formats.

Takes an in-depth look at the new and enhanced features in After Effects CS6.

Takes an in-depth look at the new and enhanced features in Premiere Pro CS6.

Explores new features like video adjustment layers and the redesigned interface in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

Veteran After Effects user Chris Meyer gets you up to speed quickly with the new features in After Effects CS6, including 3D camera tracking and the new 3D rendering engine for ray-traced 3D rendering

Reviews the Nuke 6.3 tools and performance enhancements, including 3D particle systems, planar tracking, and deep compositing.

Shows beginning filmmakers how to make a short documentary from footage they have already shot and walks them from the editing process in Premiere Elements through uploading a finished movie to a platform like Vimeo or YouTube.

Lays out the nuts and bolts of budgeting for video projects and shows how to create estimates, quotes, and invoices.

Explores the world of hypersyndication—showing how to distribute content across all media platforms quickly and more efficiently.

Moderated by Peter Bart (vice president and editorial director from Variety) the Directors on Directing panel features a who's who of Oscar®-nominated directors on their way to the Kodak Theatre on February 26, 2012.

Moderated by Patrick Goldstein (Los Angeles Times columnist for "The Big Picture"), the festival lit up the marquee with a panel of Oscar®-nominated producers you'll certainly see on the red carpet on February 26, 2012.

Moderated by Anne Thompson from indieWIRE, the It Starts with the Script panelists share their stories of script development, writer's block, book adaptation, and, most of all, tenacity, on the way to getting their movies to the screen.

Moderated by Madelyn Hammond from Madelyn Hammond & Associates, the Creative Forces: Women in the Business panel features five talented producers whose films have been nominated for multiple awards—from drama and comedy to animation and independe

Master the art of combining text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation designed to accompany spoken word or music.

Addresses eight of the most common questions users have about Premiere Pro.

SBIFF panelists talk about working with smaller budgets, the pressures of being on the "Oscar circuit", and how to keep creative and focused on the story at hand.

Top producers discuss the struggle to get a picture funded, ratings battles, making a dramatic film based on a real life event, and more.

The participants in the SBIFF Women's Panel discuss how they got started, their mentors and inspirations, and the positive effect they feel women have on the creative arts.

The SBIFF Writers' Panel discusses film development, research, script evolution, and getting movies to the screen.

Addresses 11 of the most common questions users have about After Effects.

As a sponsor of the 25th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, lynda.com is delighted to put you in the front row of four fascinating panel discussions with some of Hollywood’s top filmmakers.

As a sponsor of the 25th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, lynda.com is delighted to put you in the front row of four fascinating panel discussions with some of Hollywood’s top filmmakers.