TFM 327 / 627
Spring 2024
Week 1
1. Welcome
2. Attendance
3. Take our Class Survey
4. Class overview
4. Screen section of “The Cutting Edge”
5. Screen “History of Cutting…”
Week 2
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Brief DV 101 presentation
- Davinci Resolve Survey Tour
- Project 1 assigned. Discussions in lab time.
- Reading
Week 3
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Workstation accounts, TFM Public server
- Davinci Resolve Survey Tour continued
- DaVinci Preferences
- Autosave
- Keyboard Shortcuts management
- Trimming in Edit Room
- Trimming Keyboard Shortcuts
- Greg’s Resolve Shortcuts
- More DaVinci Tutorials
- Premium Beat Ultimate Resolve Guide
- Blackmagic Design Channel
- Project 1 Meetings / Lab
- Reading
Week 4
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Editing the television commercial
- Project Folder organization
- Structure
- Templates
- Mac 101 basics lab
- Google shared drives
- Finder Prefs
- Window Views
- Show Status/Path
- Keywords
- Favorites
- Reading:
- Modern Post 3.1-3.3
- ART OF THE CUT with the assistant editors and VFX editors of Kingsman: The Golden Circle
- ART OF THE CUT: editing Grand Tour and Top Gear with Dan James
10 Lessons from the Top Film Editors
The History of Cutting and the birth of Continuity Editing
Week 5
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Workflow Presentation
- DaVinci Clone Tool demo
- Screening DIT clips
- “Redemption”
- The Wacky World of Codecs
- Project 2 Assigned
- Readings:
- Modern Post 3.1-3.3 (c0nt’d)
- Essential Tools for Digital Imaging Technicians
- DIT: The Unsung Heroes of Film Sets
Week 6
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Project 2 assigned. See canvas
- When to Cut Presentation
- “The Rule of Six” screening
- Screen “The Matrix” office scene
- discussion
- Project 2 discussions
- Readings
- Walter Murch’s “The Rule of Six”
- Modern Post 4.1-4.4
Week 7
- Welcome
- Souindsnap
- Audio in Resolve
- Audio in Edit screen
- Faders
- Trimming audio
- Setting mono/stereo attributes
- Panning
- Setting levels
- Audio Effects
- EQ
- Telephone simulation
- Reverb
- Clip vs Track effects
- Proper Levels
- Dynamics Limiters
- Noise Reduction
- Fairlight survey
- Best Practices for audio in NLE timeline
- Reading / Videos…
Bonus Tutorials!
Nanolockit tutorial
Nanolockit with Sony A7R/S
How to sync with timecode in Resolve.
Week 8
- Welcome
- ADR/Foley Lab
- Screen “Foley Artists How Movie Sound Effects Are Made”
- Foley demo
- Reading / Videos…
Foley demo fo0tage
BRING SOME PROPS FOR THIS SCENE
Week 9
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Color Correction I presentation
- Color Grading in DaVinci Part 1
- XML getting to Resolve
- Color page interface
- Node Tree
- Color Wheels / Primary Grade
- Scopes 1
- Power Windows
- Reading
- “How to Become a Colorist” – Interview about Color Grading with Colorist and Educator Ollie Kenchington Bato Prosic
- Color Grading Film and Digital for Wonderstruck By Michael Murie
- Free Online Training!
- How to create your own LUTs in Resolve
- Modern Post 4:3
Mondays: Color Grading Workflow & Essential Tools for Colorists
Week 10
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Color Grading in DaVinci Part 2
- Scopes part 2 in detail
- Contrast Control, Pivot Control
- Curves in detail
- Soft Clipping
- Hue vs Hue
- Hue vs Sat
- Qualifiers
- Tracking
- Node types
- The campfire (layering, parallel
- White balance tricks
- Skin Tones
- Readings
Colorist Demo Reel examples
Week 11
Welcome
- Attendance
- Discuss Project 3
- Resolve Lab 3
- The campfire scene redux
- Using Keys to vary node effects
- Black & White manipulations
- Groups
- Versioning
- LOG wheels vs. Primary wheels
- Importing/Exporting LUTS
- XML Interchange
- Project 3 lab
- Reading:
Week 12
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Lab for Project 4
- Coloring Q&A wrap-up
- Copyright and Fair Use
- Readings...
Week 13
- Welcome
- Attendance
- Fusion Lab!
- Final Project footage FX
- Green Screen
- Tracking Demo
- Final Project discussions
Week 16
- Welcome
- Attendance
- PIZZA PARTY!
- POTLUCK
- SCREEN FINAL PROJECTS
- Class Virtual Picture
- Thank You!
Week 17
- Welcome
- Attendance