Gorilla Group

Essential Media Composer Skills for Wales HETV Edit Assistants
2024-05-18 - 2024-05-19 | Gorilla 101, 101 Golate House, 101 St Marys Street, Cardiff, CF101DX
Age – 18+
Career Stages – Early, Experienced
Industries – High-End TV
Funding – ScreenSkills Fully Funded
This hands-on session will ensure you have the core skills required in the use of Media Composer and the knowledge of workflow of a scripted programme and the ability to carry out day to day task that would be a requirement as an edit assistant. You’ll run through the processes from beginning to end in the key tasks amen on a daily basis using professional equipment.
This course covers:

Two days training with a professional Edit Assistant who is currently working within the industry
Learn the fundamental tools and processes in using Media Composer
Take away the skills to be able to manage data, keep relevant records, communicate with the editor, organise projects, manage layouts and much more
Basics of Nexis storage use and administration

This programme will be delivered by Gorilla Academy and is supported by the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund with contributions from UK high-end TV productions.
Who’s it for:
They training programme is for machine room operators or new entrants into post production who want a guide to skills required to be an edit assistant. It is also useful for current edit assistants who want to reinforce their current skills or assistants moving from an unscripted workflow into a scripted project.
What it covers:
On this course you will cover all the essential skills required for an edit assistant in a scripted programme. It will allow you to enhance your skills for this position and run through common tasks and jobs required as well as look at any common issues and work arounds so you can hit the ground running.
Once compete you will feel confident with the skills required to assist and edit/editor as well as confidence in handling shared resources across a project.
Course Outline

Backup, Ingest and LTO
Nearline and Nexis use
Working with a DIT
The Colour Pipeline
Organising a project
Sync with sound
Metadata and clip labelling
Exporting cuts for viewing/Dailies
Logs and paperwork
Signiant and other portals
Delivering preview cuts
VFX integration/Pulls
Conforms
Working with a Post House

Dates
TBC
Trainer information
Lucy Harris
Lucy Harris has worked on some of the largest productions o come out of Wales in the last few years including Dr Who, The Way, GenZ and is currently working as the Edit Assistant on Dope Girls.
Over the years Lucy has worked in both scripted and unscripted programming but has primarily landed most of her recent work with scripted and we’re so glad she could be involved in this programme as our principle trainer.

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Media Composer Core Skills for HETV in Wales
2024-05-11 - 2024-05-12
Age – 18+
Career Stages – Early, Experienced
Industries – High-End TV
Funding – ScreenSkills Funded
This hands-on session will ensure you have the core skills required in the use of Media Composer in a professional environment for HETV. The course gives you the foundation to build on with one of the most used tools in TV and Film in the UK and across the world. Med Composer is the go-to suite for the industry along with Nexis storage – a shared storage solution that aids in the seamless sharing of media and projects for multi-editor environments.
This course covers:

Two days training with one of the leading editors in TV across Wales and the UK
Learn the fundamental tools and processes in using Media Composer
Take away the skills to be able to ingest, organise media, cut, export files and manage a project using Media Composer in a shared storage environment
Basics of Nexis storage use and administration

This programme will be delivered by Gorilla Academy and is supported by the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund with contributions from UK high-end TV productions.
Who’s it for:
They training programme is for editors who are used to using other non-linear editing packages, new entrants who have not had guided support in the use of Media Composer in a post production facility and editors who have not had experience of using Media Composer in a shared storage environment and want to learn more about collaborating with other editors on a project.
What it covers:
In this two day course you will be introduced to Media Composer and Nexis storage and walked through the skills required to edit within a shared working environment. Most programmes editing and delivered in the UK have been cut using Media Composer and edited by multiple editors throughout the programmes life cycle so its essential to gain skills and tips on how to handle yourself in a post production environment.
Once compete you will feel confident with the basic use of Media Composer as well as confidence in handling shared resources across a project.
Course Outline:

Overview of the interface and tools
Starting a project and working in a shared storage environment
A basic overview of Nexis workspace administration
Basic edit techniques & Tools
Organising footage, bins and clips
Getting to grips with the sequence
Refining the edit
Working with audio
Basic transitions
Basic effects
Rudimentary colour and image adjustments
Output options and exports
The “offline” and “online” process

Dates
TBC
Trainer information
Paul Owen
Paul Owen has been a major player in Post Production in Wales for over 25 years. He has been an editor using Media Composer for all of this time as well as being a qualified Avid Trainer for the last 10 years.
He has large portfolio of productions under his belt and continues to edit, regular sort after by some of the biggest production companies in Wales.
Speaking both English and Welsh, Paul’s cuts have spanned across many genres including drama, documentary and sports.

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