Desktop Video

Course Description

This course deals with the processes involved with desktop editing of audio and video for digital output. Topics include the operation of non-linear systems, compression schemes and shooting and editing for digital systems. Students will produce short videos for output to various storage formats or playback on digital media.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of non-linear editing terms by correctly using vocabulary and concepts relative to non-linear editing.
• Examine and determine the proper technical set up for output of edited material for NTSC, CD ROM and Internet/Intranet.
• Decide upon scenes based upon the optimum technical and aesthetic components.
• Perform a rough edit.
• Mix digital audio and edit it in appropriately.
• Demonstrate knowledge of non-linear editing terms, by correctly using vocabulary and concepts relative to non-linear editing.
• Log and digitize video footage into a digital audio/video edit system.
• Examine and determine the proper technical set up for output of edited material for NTSC, CD ROM and Internet/Intranet.
• Decide upon scenes based upon the optimum technical and aesthetic components.
• Create an edit decision list.
• Apply working knowledge of the operation of non-linear video editing to completion of projects.
• Use appropriate commands and procedures of a non-linear editor.
• Perform a rough edit.
• Demonstrate knowledge of non-linear editing terms, by correctly using vocabulary and concepts relative to non-linear editing.
• Log and digitize video footage into a digital audio/video edit system.
• Decide upon scenes based upon the optimum technical and aesthetic components.
• Create an edit decision list.
• Apply working knowledge of the operation of non-linear video editing to completion of projects.
• Use appropriate commands and procedures of a non-linear editor.
• Perform a rough edit.
• Demonstrate knowledge of non-linear editing terms, by correctly using vocabulary and concepts relative to non-linear editing.
• Decide upon scenes based upon the optimum technical and aesthetic components.
• Apply working knowledge of the operation of non-linear video editing to completion of projects.
• Use appropriate commands and procedures of a non-linear editor.
• Demonstrate the ability to independently create and render titles and integrate them into sequences.
• Demonstrate knowledge of non-linear editing terms, by correctly using vocabulary and concepts relative to non-linear editing.
• Use appropriate technical means such as compression, resolution and composition to achieve target data rates for various output formats.
• Apply working knowledge of the operation of non-linear video editing to completion of projects.
• Use appropriate commands and procedures of a non-linear editor.
• Demonstrate the ability to independently create and render titles and integrate them into sequences.
• Mix digital audio and edit it in appropriately.
• Demonstrate knowledge of non-linear editing terms, by correctly using vocabulary and concepts relative to non-linear editing.
• Create a fully edited finished product using transitions, effects, graphics and layering.
• Use appropriate technical means such as compression, resolution and composition to achieve target data rates for various output formats.
• Apply working knowledge of the operation of non-linear video editing to completion of projects.
• Use appropriate commands and procedures of a non-linear editor.
• Demonstrate the ability to independently create and render titles and integrate them into sequences.
• Mix digital audio and edit it in appropriately.
• Have basic ability to export from digital storage media onto another format

Software Utilized

• Adobe Premiere
• Adobe Photoshop