The Middle East Post

Production Conference
8 9 March 2016, Dubai World Trade Centre

Produced by

In Association with

TRAINING FOR CONTENT CREATORS

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SESSIONS ON POST PRODUCTION
Presented by Renowned Experts, Authors and Certified Instructors

To support the GCCs aim to be the destination of choice to shoot and produce Hollywood,
Bollywood and Arabic films, two days of advanced trainings on Post-Production taught by
certified instructors directly will be the leading educational event for digital media
professionals.
The sessions as well as the presenters come directly from the NABSHOW in Las Vegas the
worlds leading training event in the world. Sessions are geared for beginner to intermediate
level professionals with 2-5 years experience. The program is divided into two tracks:
Professionals: Sessions designed for professionals with 2-4 years experience in postproduction who wish to maximize their skills and gain tips and tricks that may apply to their
very next projects.
Students: Sessions designed for graduating students who are seeking technical training and
general business guidance regarding their career building.

Post-Production Training Experts Include

RICHARD HARRINGTON, PRESIDENT/CEO, AUTHOR, MASTER TRAINER | RHED PIXEL

ROBBIE CARMAN, COLORIST, VICE PRESIDENT, AMIGO MEDIA LLC
IAN ROBINSON, INSTRUCTOR, DESIGNER AND PHOTOGRAPHER

Who Should Attend:

Editors
Producers
Directors
Graphic artists
Motion graphics designers
New media specialists in production and post, commercial video, distribution and
delivery and independent films.
Students seeking technical & business skills

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Agenda Day One Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Session 1
ADVANCED SKILLS

Session 2
ESSENTIAL SKILLS

09:0010:45

Making a Smooth Transition

from Production to Post
Robbie Carman

Building a Demo Reel, Website, and

Resum
Richard Harrington

11:00 12:45

Shooting and Assembling

Professional Timelapse
Sequences
Richard Harrington

What a Video Pro Needs to Know

About Color Grading and
Acquisition Workflow
Robbie Carman

14:00 15:45

Getting the Most from

Premiere Pro CC

Ten Essential After Effects

Techniques for Every Video
Professional
Ian Robinson

Richard Harrington

Agenda Day Two - Wednesday, 9th March 2016

Session 1
ADVANCED SKILLS

Session 2
ESSENTIAL SKILLS

09:0010:45

Getting the Most from After

Effects CC
Ian Robinson

Essential Project Management and

Business Skills for Video Professionals
Richard Harrington

11:00 12:45

Hypersyndication Strategies
for Web Video and Online
Content
Richard Harrington

Typography Essentials for Motion

and Video Projects

Integrating Mirrorless 4K
Cameras Into Your Workflow

Color Catastrophe: Fixing Common

Color Problems

Richard Harrington

Robbie Carman

Mastering A Timeline: Audio

Finishing Techniques
Robbie Carman

Getting Started with Cinema 4D

14:00 15:45

14:00 15:45

Ian Robinson

Ian Robinson

Session Descriptions - Richard Harrington

Building a Demo Reel, Website, and Resum
In this informative session youll learn what it takes to promote your work. Learn what should
go into a demo reel and what shouldnt. Learn strategies for building an online portfolio as
well as a website. Should you brand your company or key individuals. Learn practical
advice for what goes on your resum or CV as well. This class is specifically targeted to
students and new professionals looking to break into the creative workplace.

Shooting and Assembling Professional Timelapse Sequences

Learn how to speed up time and create compelling visual effects with time-lapse
photography. Join Rich Harrington and learn how to frame your scene and choose the
proper camera settings. He'll show you how to capture great images, whether you're using a
DSLR camera and a motorized slider or just a smartphone you have handy. Then transform
your still photos into a storytelling time-lapse video, using tools like Photoshop, Premiere Pro,
and After Effects.

Getting the Most from Premiere Pro CC

Explore the new features added to Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015. Premiere Pro guru Rich
Harrington covers the most exciting updates as well as smaller but still useful changes, and
provides tips to help video editors get the most from the program. Topics range from
preferences and settings expansions, the new Lumetri color workflow, and audio and video
editing improvements, to new effects like Morph Cut and enhancements to media
management and mobile and touch-based editing.

Essential Project Management and Business Skills for Video Professionals

Project management is key to taking an idea from start to finish, but video projects face very
special challenges that set them apart from traditional business projects. In this class will
explore the core concepts of effective project management within the context of the video
production industry. Covering topics like effectively matching your services offered with the
project, estimating time, and communicating with clients, the speaker will shares insights from
his many years as a business owner and creative professional. This class is specifically
targeted to students, new professionals, and transitioning pros looking to succeed as
producers, directors, managers, or business owners.

Hypersyndication Strategies for Web Video and Online Content

In this class, well explore the world of hypersyndicationshowing how to distribute content
across all media platforms quickly and more efficiently. When publishing content,
hypersyndication decreases costs by utilizing the power of the Internet and social media
sites. This course explains how to build a network to significantly extend a product's reach,
using tools such as RSS feeds, YouTube, and iTunes, and covers topics such as creating a
consistent visual brand and targeting the emergent mobile market.

Integrating Mirrorless 4K Cameras Into Your Workflow

This session will offer an in-depth exploration of the popular mirrorless digital still cameras, with
a special focus on the newer models that offer internal and external 4K video recording.
Well explore both the Sony A7 series and Panasonic GH4 lineups. We will provide a
knowledge base to help take advantage of these affordable, compact camera systems to
compete in a marketplace that has an increasing demand for 4K content.

Session Descriptions - Ian Robinson

Essential Skills: What Every Video Pro Needs to Know About Adobe Photoshop
We will start this session by exploring how to optimize Photoshop specifically for video
production. Then its time to use Photoshop to fix some problematic video clips. Along the
way well fix lens distortion using lens profiles, eliminate chromatic aberration, color correct
video clips with Adobe Camera RAW, and create a still panoramic backplate with one single
video file. Well also save our color correction layers as LUTs (Look Up Tables) to use with
future video projects in Premiere Pro or After Effects. Finally, we will explore how to speed up
the production between storyboard and animation as we cover the integrated workflow
between Photoshop and After Effects.

Essential Skills: Ten Essential After Effects Techniques for Every Video Professional
This session covers 10 essential techniques in After Effects no matter if youre a video editor, a
producer / editor, or a motion designer. Each technique designed based on the unique tools
available in After Effects. Topics include techniques such as building a graphics toolkit with
presets, keying with Keylight, 3D motion tracking, animating with Shape Layers, creating
dynamic motion with keyframes and cameras, and much more. If you are looking to expand
your skills, or just learn a little more about what After Effects can do, this is the session for you.

Advanced Skills: Getting the Most from After Effects CC

After Effects is a wonderful tool to work with, once you have streamlined your workflow. To
start this session, we will discuss optimum hardware and preference configurations. Then we
will analyze some common design and editing workflows to outline potential areas for
optimization. Starting with editing, well explore the best ways to link projects and graphics
between After Effects and Premiere Pro using Dynamic Link and Templates. For motion
graphics and visual effects, well focus on how to speed up projects using proxies, animation
and effects presets. Well round things out by exploring ways to create quicker renders and
workflow techniques for keeping track of multiple revisions.

Essential Skills: Typography Essentials for Motion and Video Projects

These days it seems like every video project has to be ready to view on any device, from
your phone, to computer, to the big screen. That being said, typography becomes an
essential skill required in any video professionals toolkit. Well start this session by covering the
fundamentals of typography. Then well analyze the deeper meanings created when using
certain typefaces and layouts. Everything from capitalization and negative space, to
crowded screens with little space, each choice can relay a different message. Once we
cover the theories, then well move on to design and animate a few different typographic
projects using Type Animators, Expressions and Behaviors. As we finish the session, well
explore how to create some project templates for both Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Essential Skills: Getting Started with Cinema 4D (1:45)

This session is designed to give you the essential skills required to get started with Cinema 4D.
Since Cinema 4D is so well integrated with After Effects, many of the tools and techniques
are similar in their function. While there are definitely new terms and tools unique to Cinema
4D, understanding the foundations of After Effects help you in the transition to learning a 3D
application like Cinema 4D. In this session well cover the essentials of the interface, workflow,
and functionality of Cinema 4D. As we explore, we will move our way through modeling,
texturing and materials, lighting, and animation.

Session Descriptions Robbie Carman

Making a smooth transition from production to post
You may have heard the phrase Fix It In Post before DONT!
While postproduction tools & techniques can fix many common problems, getting visuals
and audio right on location is a key component for success. In addition, making a smooth
hand off from on-set to post means more than just handing over media files.

What a video pro needs to know about color grading & acquisition workflow
Modern acquisition & production/post workflows are all about one thing capturing and
then working with the most image information in post as possible!
However, the more you research cameras, monitoring, camera workflows and how to
handle footage in post, the more youll start to feel like you need an advanced math or
color science degree! The terms at best can be complex and at worst just gibberish.

Mastering a timeline: visual finishing techniques

In this session, join Robbie Carman in exploring essential techniques for finishing & mastering
video in a project using Adobe Premiere Pro & other Creative Cloud applications. From small
glitches and color correction problems to working with graphics and outputting deliverables
for broadcast, the web and cinema, there is a lot that goes into finishing a project after
editing is done.

Color catastrophe: fixing common color problems

Video shots can have all sorts of problems with contrast and color and fixing them can be
frustrating and technically challenging, but making problem shots look their best is easy with
some essential techniques. In this session, join colorist Robbie Carman as he shares
straightforward and approachable recipes for fixing common color problems using Adobe
Premiere Pro but also general techniques that can be applied in nearly every postproduction
application.

Mastering a timeline: audio finishing techniques

In this session join Robbie Carman in exploring practical techniques for finishing audio in a
video project using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition. Its been said that audiences
are forgiving with visual problems but when it comes to audio even the smallest issues are
noticed.