This three-day course provides the most extensive must-know professional techniques for cutting dialogue scenes, action scenes, fight and chase scenes, documentaries, comedy, music videos, multi-camera projects and more. The course also covers Soundtrack Pro, audio finishing, managing clips and media, and working with film.

This course is designed for existing Final Cut Pro users who wish to increase their skill level through learning advanced features and workflows.

This course includes an Apple Pro Certification Level Two Exam. Candidates will NOT be certified at Level Two unless they have taken and passed the Level One exam. We therefore strongly recommend that trainees undertake a Level One course (an FCP 101 or an FCP 200) before going on the FCP 300.

You will learn:

- Working with editing dialogue scenes
- Asymmetrical Trimming and Advanced Trim Edit window techniques
- Audio editing and creation
- Film workflows and using Cinema Tools
- Finishing and final output.

Course Outline - the FCP 300 covers 5 of these lessons per training day:

1) Editing Dialogue - Learning the language of film, editing the basic dialogue sequence, refining the cut, the basis for all editing.

2) Editing Complex Dialogue - Editing complex scenes, build up to the climax, mixing 'doing' and 'talking', finishing the scene on your own.

3) Editing Action - Telling a story in action, learning action fundamentals, cutting an action scene.

4) Chases And Fights - Crafting chilling chases, creating compelling combat.

5) Editing Comedy - Finding the laughs, cutting comic dialogue, cutting comic action.

6) Editing Documentaries - Defining documentary, Cutting interviews, adding B-Roll, having fun with B-Roll, expanding the documentary form.

7) Documenting An Event - Construct your own reality, constructing a montage, building a scene, incorporating narration.

8) Music Videos - Technique and approach.

9) Multicamera Editing - Editing multicamera footage, working with many angles, applying effects to multiclips.

10) Sound Editing - Waiting until the picture is locked, editing dialogue, creating ambiences, adding sound effects, designing the sound, editing music.

11) Audio Finishing - Preparing the sequence, muting and soloing audio tracks, understanding dialogue levels, choosing a reference level, exploring the audio mixer, using real-time keyframing.

12) Advanced Clip Management - Using the browser as a clip database, working with timecode, recording to dual systems, working with 16:9, 24p editing basics, what about PAL?

13) Managing Media - Understanding the relationship between clips and media, using the Media Manager, working with low vs. high resolution clips.

14) Transcoding And Outputting Video - Outputting for DVD, creating video for HD DVDs, making video for the web, exporting audio, exporting QuickTime files, transcoding video formats.

15) Working With Film Source - Understanding the Film-Video-Film workflow, creating the database, editing a project for film, generating lists.