On Camera: Video Lighting for the Web

Join Rick Allen Lippert, as he shows off some simple and inexpensive lighting techniques to make everyone look their best on camera. This concise course in our On Camera series covers topics such as gathering your equipment, basic lighting for a home or office environment, understanding how color temperature works, and three-point lighting. Rick also touches on how to procure good audio from your recording, how to create the best appearance on camera, and working with built-in and portable webcams.

Prelude CS6 Workshop

Today this video technology makes it easier than ever to acquire enormous amounts of media, all of which needs to be ingested, managed, and organized in a way that is useful at every stage of post-production and distribution. Fortunately, Adobe Prelude CS6 provides users with a fast, easy interface for ingesting, transcoding, duplicating, tagging, commenting, and communicating about media. In this course, video expert Maxim Jago introduces the core concepts of metadata management and tagging using Adobe XMP metadata. You will learn how to organize, ingest, transcode, tag, comment, subclip, and build a rough cut before sending media on to Premiere Pro for editing as the complete workflow with the new Adobe Prelude CS6.

Getting Started with SpeedGrade CS6

SpeedGrade is a color grading and finishing tool that lets video editors control color and light for any type of content, and it is now part of the Adobe Creative Suite. In this workshop filmmaker and author Chad Perkins teaches you the basics of this powerful software. You will learn how to perform a basic color grade, create looks, mask footage, apply grades to multiple clips, and much more. You will also see how SpeedGrade fits into your overall post-production workflow.