Audio/Visual Systems Semester Outline

Video Editing

ü  Camera Parts

ü  Camera Adjustments

ü  Proper Exposure

ü  Best Sound

ü  Analog .vs. Digital

ü  The CCD

ü  Keeping it steady –

o  camera accessories

o  What’s around the house

ü  Types of camera shots

o  Angles and techniques

o  What do they do?

ü  Special Effects

o  Lens filters

o  Lighting

o  Masks

ü  Hook ups

o  Cables

o  Quality

ü  Computer Requirements

o  Processor

o  Capture Card

o  Sound Card

o  Hard Drive/s

o  Final Outputs

o  Preparing for editing

o  Save now, Save often!!!!!

ü  Types of Editing

o  Computer based or not

o  Analog .vs. Digital

ü  Video Software Packages

o  Mac .vs. PC

o  Pinnacle (low cost, bought out by AVID)

o  Home Video

o  Production Video

o  News Video

o  Interface types

§  Timeline

§  Storyboard

§  Text

ü  Pre-production - Telling the story

o  Beginning, Middle and Ending

o  Story Boards

o  Scripts

o  Shot Sheets

o  Log Sheets

Animation

o  Where it is used today

ü  Disney Animation

o  Frame by Frame

o  Cells

ü  Computer Animation

o  2-D

o  3-D

o  Key Frames

ü  Anim8or software

o  Cartesian coordinates

o  X, Y, Z axis’s

ü  Main Screen Interface

o  Toolbar

o  Object Edit Mode

o  Point Edit Mode

ü  Modes

o  Object

§  Materials

§  Join Solids

§  Group

o  Figure

§  Root Bone

§  Range of Motion

§  Mouse Controls

o  Sequence

§  Add Figure

§  Key Frames

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o  Scene

§  Key Frames

§  Add object/s

·  Add Figure

o  Add Sequences

§  Move Objects with sequences

§  Rotate Objects to interact with camera

o  Frame Count

o  Length of scene

ü  Builds

o  Primatives

o  N-Gons

o  Sketches

o  Convert to mesh

o  Convert to subdivide

o  Extrude

o  Lathe

o  Fill

o  Mirror

o  Sub-divide faces

ü  Modifiers

ü  Scaling

o  Proportionate

o  Non-proportionate