Archive of the Workshops/Training Category

Artbeats didn’t just bring three new collections to NAB–a gorgeous ultra slo-mo reel, new air-to-air (shot with Phantom) and energy aerials, and an Environmental Impact series.

The company also reinforced their intention to be a creative and technical resource for those using stock footage with an on-booth demo theater running continuous series of tutorials on topics including Steve Holmes on compositing fire effects in AE, DVD menus, lower third design, and using ProRes 422.

For those who aren’t at the show check out Artbeats free downloadable tutorials at artbeats.com.

Tell me about Class On Demand Training.

Class On Demand has evolved in the last 15 years into a company that provides a variety of training related products in the consumer to professional space. We’ve evolved from tape based training to DVD and downloadable content.

We’ve won a bunch of awards for our training, and have frankly gotten a reputation for producing very high quality content. Probably as a result, in addition to our retail products, we now do a lot of custom-branded training for companies like Grass Valley, Sorenson, Telestream, and a variety of others. more

Luxology’s Brad Peebler can’t talk about everything on the record, which is the kind of thing that seems more portentous in a limo. So here’s a quickie. Check out the new training division on their site. Close collaboration with Adobe on some aspects of CS3, like on the 3D import side, has also yielded some experience/info on things like how to prepare a model for CS3, how to use Photoshop layers, artist sweetening…etc. The project-based training materials–some CS3 related, some not–are all downloadable iTunes-style. Get a whole project’s worth of lessons for $25, pieces of it for $5 each. It’s beginners level with stuff that also applies to intermediate and advanced Brad says. He says it will help you get closer to “flow” that place where the tools start to disappear into the background of your brain.

Apple Final Cut Studio has several completely new modules, and dramatic interface changes. Ditto for Adobe CS3. In this podcast, Class On Demand President Paul Holtz discusses the online and DVD training his company designed for these applications, and how they compare to materials offered by Lynda.com and Total Training. To listen to Holtz’s conversation with Digital Content Producer Contributing Writer Jan Ozer, click here

We’ll start blogging about NAB 2007 on April 14. In the meantime, check out The Briefing Room: 2007 NAB Newslink for up-to-the-minute press releases from select publicists. Check back to this virtual press conference several times a day for product launches, demos, and other events not to miss this year in Vegas.