Learn how film professionals arrive at the finished product. Ashley Kennedy breaks down scenes and interviews the filmmakers about their aesthetic, approach, workflow, and collaboration style in this biweekly series.
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Ashley Kennedy is a staff author at LinkedIn, creating video post-production courses for Lynda.com.Ashley Kennedy is a former instructor at Avid and Columbia College Chicago. She teaches video editing and storytelling. In addition to creating online courses, she has hundreds of hours of experience leading face-to-face classes and facilitating online and hybrid courses. She has also written two textbooks on video editing, which have been widely used by editors and film students worldwide.
Prior to joining the lynda.com team, she taught in the post-production track at Columbia College Chicago for five years. Before that, she was the principle instructor and certifications program manager at Avid, where she taught and developed the Avid Certified curriculum and managed the Avid Certified Instructor worldwide program.
Ashley holds a BS in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois, and an MFA in film from Boston University. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two children.
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Get filmmaking tips in our new biweekly series. Join online conversations with modern filmmakers, as they discuss technology, technique, and storytelling, and offer advice for new directors and editors entering the industry.
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Explore the theory and process of incorporating music with film and video projects—and gain understanding about the rules and workflow of various film score options.
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New to Premiere Pro? Start here and learn how to professionally edit video using techniques from the experts.
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Make your media collaboration strategy smarter with Frame.io. Learn about the benefits and features of Frame.io and find out how to integrate Frame.io with Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X.
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Learn about the history and importance of documentary filmmaking. This course explores the narrative building blocks of documentaries, and delves into specific examples of nonfiction filmmaking to explore the myriad of ways filmmakers have approached this craft over the past 120 years—culminating into the evolution of today's documentary film.
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Learn how to organize and edit video and how to enhance the look and sound of your projects with Final Cut Pro X 10.2.
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Learn about each step in the Avid Media Composer workflow—from preparation and organization to editing and refining, to audio and effects, to media management and output.
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Get started with Final Cut Pro X, Apple's flagship video editing software. Review the major steps of a post-production workflow, including ingest, editing, effects, and export.
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Get on the fast track to video editing with Premiere Pro CC with this start-to-finish overview.
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Get post-production tips on topics such as compositing, color correction, audio, and media management.
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An introduction to the history of film and video editing, including both essential editing techniques and evolving technology.
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Explore the history of dialogue in film and the techniques behind editing a great dialogue-based scene.
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Ashley Kennedy chats with veteran video editors about their latest projects and their unique approaches to editing and storytelling with video.
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Introduces the concepts behind color correction and color grading, and guides editors through the process of correcting contrast, color balance, and hue/saturation in individual shots and entire films.
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Learn how to edit video in this project-based introduction to both the aesthetic and technical aspects of video editing.
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Create a polished, effects-driven commercial in Final Cut Pro X 10.1.x.
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Learn how to professionally edit video in Premiere Pro with techniques the experts use.
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Learn how to build and refine your story with the redesigned editing toolset in Final Cut Pro X.
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Learn to edit, refine, and enhance your video project with Avid Media Composer—a must-know software solution for all aspiring filmmakers.
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Create a polished, effects-driven commercial in Final Cut Pro X.
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Learn how to build and refine your story with the redesigned editing toolset in Final Cut Pro X.
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Guides video editors through the process of crafting various types of scenes using narrative editing and storytelling techniques in Avid Media Composer.
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Find out how to build a polished documentary using Avid Media Composer and essential documentary editing techniques.
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Illustrates how to correct color imbalances or create a specific mood in pre-edited video with the complete color correction workflow in Avid Media Composer.
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Create and animate complex composites using mattes, keys, and intraframe effects—elements that allow editors and motion graphics artists to seamlessly combine and animate multiple layers of content—with Avid Media Composer.
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Demonstrates basic and intermediate techniques for editing video in Avid Media Composer.
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Demonstrates basic and intermediate editing techniques in Media Composer.