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Apple DVD Studio Pro - Custom & On-site Training Course

motionSide1 Enhanced creative tools in Apple DVD Studio Pro free you to design more sophisticated titles with unique motion menus, transitions, and slideshow elements.

Preview colour and surround sound on a second Digital Cinema Desktop while you work. Or audition surround sound using S/PDIF (digital audio) out to an external DTS or Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder.

Whether you’re authoring DVDs for film, special events, weddings, training materials, or sales and marketing presentations, DVD Studio Pro has the tools to help you make your titles stand out.

Extended control of SPRM & GPRM values gives you full scripting control. Combined with stories, multiple video & audio tracks and 32 subtitle tracks, this means you can create a complete DVD experience. Whatever your audience.

On-site & fully tailored courses available

Curious Turtle offers bespoke, fully tailored training to help you get going with this immensely powerful software. We will consult with you prior to any training to ensure that the course is designed precisely for your needs.

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Check out the available sample course outlines in either introductory and full courses in DVD Studio Pro. In addition, we have training focused entirely on DVD scripting.

Note: We can also offer Final Cut Studio training on the entire production suite.

Basic | Inter | Expert

Adobe Photoshop is the professional standard in desktop digital imaging software. But despite being used on a daily basis, ever power-users touch only a fraction of its true functionality. Curious Turtle training can help you discover more efficient working methods. Better productivity gives your talent more time to unleash their full creativity.

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Basic | Advanced

Apple Motion offers true film-quality output, GPU accelerated performance, and an astounding toolset. Create advanced motion graphics with drag-and-drop ease, startling clarity, and unprecedented colour fidelity — all in real time. Design in real time. Motion lets you play back, move, and resize video layers interactively. Watch filters, particles, and title animations spring instantly to life, and render output quickly — thanks to built-in GPU acceleration.

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Continuum Complete is an expansive plug-in filter set that lets you create effects from the practical to the inspired directly in your native host interface for unprecedented workflow. Over 180 filters include advanced keying, matting, compositing, image processing, distortion, temporal effects and motion tracking.

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Basic | Further

Autodesk Combustion gives you some of the most powerful tools for motion graphics, visual effects and compositing available on a desktop computer. All this power needs to be tamed, and Curious Turtle training can help you to do that. Learn the workflow and master the tools that make your production explode off the desktop. Master advanced particle systems, colour correction and grading, keying and tracking.

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Basic | Further

Apple’s revolutionary audio editing and sound design application lets you express your sonic vision quickly and economically. Soundtrack Pro's innovative waveform editor gives you extensive audio editing capabilities and lets you perform nondestructive, sample-accurate audio manipulations in a groundbreaking interface. Whether you want to create your own multitrack musical compositions, clean up hiss and pop or mix a full score with foley for your video work, Soundtrack Pro is for you.

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Basic | Advanced | Scripting

Enhanced creative tools in Apple DVD Studio Pro free you to design more sophisticated titles with unique motion menus, transitions, and slideshow elements. Preview colour and surround sound on a second Digital Cinema Desktop while you work. Or audition surround sound using S/PDIF (digital audio) out to an external DTS or Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder. Whether you’re authoring DVDs for film, special events, weddings, training materials, or sales and marketing presentations, DVD Studio Pro has the tools to help you make your titles stand out.

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Basic | Further

Apple’s new professional color grading application. Quickly and easily experiment with primary and secondary color grade adjustments for SD, HD, and even 2K projects. Color lets you preview the results — at any resolution — in real time. Color makes it easy for editors to create signature looks for projects ranging from short video pieces to full-length theatrical films.

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Titling | Effects | Total

Boris Red is the only solution for editors who require broadcast-quality features for titling, effects and 3D directly inside their nonlinear editing systems. Red 4's seamless integration is unsurpassed. Red 4 is a powerful new version that gives you more creative options so you can enjoy your work more than ever. Curious Turtle is available to turbo start your learning, to get you the results that you want.

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Basic | Advanced

The Media 100 family of products (Media 100i, Media 100 HD & Media 100 sw) is designed to produce high quality digital video for professionals. Its highly intuitive interface and powerful tools makes Media 100 the fastest way to edit your material. It offers a flexible I/O, whether you are working with DV, SD or HD material. The enhanced audio design tools and tight integration with other industry-standard applications.

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Basic | Further

mocha is a stand alone 2D tracking tool packed with features that make the life of the effects compositing artist easier and less stressful. Now compositors can avoid the guess work and inaccuracies that result from painstaking and time consuming difficult hand tracking shots. The process of generating solid 4-point tracks, giving position, scale, rotation, shear and perspective matched tracks is sped up thanks to the next generation tracking. Once the track is complete, mocha is designed to export the data to the industry’s most well known compositing and finishing packages.

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Total Workflow

Compression is everywhere in video. From the first frame, to the final delivery pixels are pushed, pulled, squeezed and stretched. Without knowing what's happening to your media, it's very easy to lose quality. Curious Turtle training gives you an understanding of how compression works and why it's vital that you know it.

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Basic | Inter | Expert

Adobe After Effects is the industry tool for motion graphics and visual effects. This resolution-independant software package offers 3D compositing, animation, motion tracking, advanced keying, a particle system and other visual effects tools. Adobe After Effects is a key package for anyone doing digital video work.

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Total Workflow

The spread of CCTV has created a wealth of opportunities to catch criminals. A result of the rapid growth of this sector has been the emergence of different standards and quality in video surveillance. Curious Turtle forensics training is aimed at workflow, and how to maintain video integrity through the various stages of capture, enhancement and delivery.

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Basic | Inter | Expert

Final Cut Pro delivers high-performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format, and facility-class extensibility and interoperability. Whether you’re working solo or collaborating with a team, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before. Scaleable from DV through uncompressed SD and up to HDV and HD, Final Cut Pro can handle your video.

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