A wise person once said that taking a photo or recording some video is the equivalent of going to the shops, to buy eggs and flour. Post production is where you get to make the cake.
How to fly your drone, and capture images and video is what we teach you in the earlier lessons in this series. Turning that data into something wonderful is what we are about here. Joining a small group live on Zoom for two hours each week for six weeks, led by one of our Expert Drone Pilots who is also a professional photographer & videographer, and a Zen-God of post-production is how to do it.
At a Glance
Your tutor: One of our Expert Drone Pilots who is also a professional photographer & videographer, and a Zen-God of post-production
Numbers: Maximum 10
Base Camp: Live on Zoom. Wherever you are. Wherever that is
Duration: 12 hours in total. 6 x 2 hour Zoom episodes, one per week for six weeks
Skill level: A brilliant introduction to photo and video post-production for those who are new to the field
Timing: This Course starts once every two months
Exertion: Brain power required. Leg power not required
Cost: £250 for six episodes. Note - you can join the 3 Photo Editing episodes for £125, or the 3 Video Editing episodes for £125
Weather: This series is not weather dependent. It doesn’t rain in your kitchen, we hope
The first half of this series is all about post-processing of images in Lightroom. There are a ton of brilliant tutorial videos on the Adobe (creators of Lightroom) website, and even more on YouTube. So why sign up for this Course?
Because there is nothing like being able to ask a real person a real question and get a real answer in real time. That is what this is all about. We guarantee that applying what we teach you in these episodes will transform your images from good to great. We speak from personal experience. 100% Money Back Guarantee if you are not happy after Episode 1.
The second half of the series is about video post-processing. We’ll be using iMovie for these episodes. The good news is that the techniques you will learn here can be applied just as effectively in Adobe Premier Pro, Final Cut, and DaVinci Resolve. Getting into video editing can be bewildering. Everything is more complicated, but also more limited, when you switch from photo editing to video editing. We cut through the complexity to give you a simple workflow, from selecting the clips to work with, through putting them on the timeline, to clipping them to an ideal length, to colouring, transitions; titling, and setting to music. Enabling you to turn your drone footage into YouTube ready video-productions.
Note – you can join the 3 Photo Editing episodes for £125, or the 3 Video Editing episodes for £125, if your interest is exclusively on one or the other.
What is in the Course?
Episode One – Photo Editing – Start the Magic
- Where is your data?
- Putting it in the right place
- Lightroom is your perfect Library, whether you have 100 or 100,000 images
- On desktop, on your laptop, on your tablet, on your mobile
Episode Two – Photo Editing – Crop; Saturate; Compensate; Perfect
- Cropping to improve composition
- Getting the balance right
- Fixing problems
- Make any image better
Episode Three – Photo Editing – Talking about a Revolution
- How to fly through your workflow
- Edit an image in 90 seconds or less
- Making and using Masks for even more impact
- Stitching images – Create an HDR Panorama from your drone images
Episode Four – Video Editing – Start Here
- Importing data into your video editing software
- The gift that keeps on giving – understanding the timeline
- Start the music
- Keep it sharp – cut your clips as hard as you can
- Speed up, slow down
Epsidode Five – Video Editing – Press Go
- Transitions; know your Eisenstein
- Holding the viewers attention
- B Roll
- Flow, or Jagged
Episode Six – Video Editing – One Minute
- 30 minutes of input = 1 minute of output
- Perfect – edit the clips again
- Perfect – title hero, or title zero
- Take it to YouTube – export.
If you miss an Episode, you can request a recording free of charge of up to 2 episodes. If you would like to be sent a recording of each Episode on the day, you can purchase additional recordings for £20 per episode. Or you can purchase the edited “Box Set” as soon as the Course is complete, for £99.