New After Effects 3D Class Now Available 10:10AM-12:10PM time – Sign up Now!

The After Effects 3D class that meets from 10:10am – 12:10 pm is back by popular demand!  https://abcadultschool.asapconnected.com/#CourseID=156916

Please click the link to sign up now! 
I have been told that I have until Friday of this week to get enough students enrolled in this class in order to keep it going.  Please show your support for this class at this time slot and sign up.  

This class will be awesome!  You will be learning how to:

• Create 3D Animation
• Work with virtual cameras and lights in 3D space to create beautiful virtual scenes
• bring your graphics to life with motion
• Create Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) like simulations of rain, storms or explosion effects
• Beautiful 3D text animations with Kinetic Typography techniques seen in the Text Animation Demo Video attached

I will be giving all students who enroll priority access to Adobe Products at home as soon as our IT team has my account up and running.
I will also be doing Zoom lessons regularly during the 10:10 am time 2nd period time slot.  For anyone who can’t make that time, the videos will be available to watch at your convenience on Canvas.  For a look at the previous Zoom lesson in After Effects with a sneak peak at what is to come in the Adobe 3D class please check out the video link: 
 Text Animation Demo.mp4

On a personal note, if I don’t get enough students enrolled by Friday of this week, I will lose my healthcare as well as my one year old baby’s healthcare. But we will find a way to survive in this crazy covid 19 pandemic time.

What’s more important is that you join this class to learn the skills to make amazing work that gets you a rewarding career in Film/Television & Media Entertainment Industries.

Finalizing your Videos for YouTube

 

 

 

New Video Studio Class Sign-up

Sign up for the new Video Studio Production Lab Class online here!

Photo taken by John Barahona

This is just a glimpse of the new state of the art video studio we are building in the Career Technical Education Center with the ABC Adult School.

6/11 – 7/3, 2018

Monday – Thursday
10:10 AM – 2:40 PM

(Break for lunch 12:10 – 12:40 PM)

Click to Sign-up for the New Live Studio Production Lab

Our Studio Production in the After Effects Class

We used green tape for Track Points that could be analyzed by Adobe After Effects in order to track camera movement, and super impose our very own pop n’ lock dancer, AChante Malone, into an alternate universe, another dimension or any new environment one would venture to imagine.  She will also be interacting with fire and lightning also generated by the tools in After Effects.  Jesse Serrato is on camera doing professional pan, tilts and tracking motion.

About the new Live Video Studio Production Lab Class

This summer AChante Malone will also be performing live in our new Live Video Studio Lab class in which we will be shooting and learning how to use high end cameras, lighting, green screen with our new Livestream Switcher to create live edits and effects and even stream out to social media.  By the end of each shoot we will have a completed program from start to finish without ever needing to go to post production.

Join us!  This could be your chance to go viral on YouTube!  Do you have a story to tell?  Do you have an idea to pitch!  Do you have a revolution to start!  We are here to help you with professional video studio equipment!  Together we will be making visions into viral videos!

Sign up for the New Live Video Studio Class

Learn how to produce live television programs from start to finish using the the latest state of the art video streaming technology!

6/11 – 7/3, 2018

Monday – Thursday
10:10 AM – 2:40 PM

(Break for lunch 12:10 – 12:40 PM)

Click to Sign-up for the New Live Studio Production Lab

• Join this class to gain experience working in a Live Television Studio environment using the new state of the art video production studio equipment.
• Students will learn to set up a three-camera shoot with lighting and high-end 4K cameras.
• Using the Livestream switcher technology, students will enjoy mix multiple media sources to create live effects and make real time edits, creating a complete program by the end of each shoot.
• Students will also have the opportunity to stream their live shows out to social media.
• This class also may be used as a lab for students who are completing their animated media portfolios and would like additional time to work on demo reels and other projects.

 

 

 

 

 

Online Video Production Class Registration has begun

Sign up for the New Adobe Premiere Pro Video Editing Class Now!

Online registration has just begun.  Seise this rare opportunity!  Sign up for the New Premiere Pro Video Editing Fundamentals class, and learn all the latest techniques to create a video from start to finish.  By the end of the course you will have acquired the skills to land a rewarding career in film and television and or be able to go viral on YouTube with your own creative work!

Media for Video Projects

Where to go to Find Video

http://mitchmartinez.com/

1. Click Downloads
2. Click the Chain link icon on a video thumbnail to get to the download page
3. On the download page, click the download button on the side of the video
4. Right click or Control Click the video and choose Download Link as to name and save the video
5. Be sure to credit Mitch Martinez in your published work

DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND PLAYLISTS FOR FREE!

https://ddownr.com/

Savefrom.net

http://en.savefrom.net/1-how-to-download-youtube-video/

1. Copy a URL from a YouTube Video
2. Go to the Savefrom.net site to paste the YouTube Video URL
3. Download the video

http://kwizzu.com

1. Click Install
2. Go to your downloads folder and double click on the “fastest tube” plug in
3. You will see a Congratulations screen at kwizzu.com
4. You will now find a Download option when you click on a YouTube video

 

Great Places to Find Audio besides Garage Band

http://dig.ccmixter.org/free

1. Click on the dig button
2. Preview songs with the play buttons and click on the cloud download button to get to the download menu
3. On the download menu for the song, right click or control click the big download button and choose Download linked file as
4. Name and save your audio file
5. Be sure to credit the creator in your work

http://soundbible.com

1. Search for sound effects
2. Click on the Wav file download option
3. Take note of the creator if the sound is under the Attribution License

http://www.youtube-mp3.org

1. Copy a URL from a YouTube Video
2. Paste the YouTube Video URL in the field at the top of the youtube-mp3.org site

https://www.freesoundeffects.com

• Some are for purchase and some are free
• Download the Wav files

Adobe Audition Sound Effects Downloads

https://offers.adobe.com/en/na/audition/offers/audition_dlc/AdobeAuditionDLCSFX.html

Finding Images without Strict Copyright Restrictions

Flickr.com Image Searches

Search the Commons Library (images with no known copyright restrictions)

http://www.flickr.com/commons/

1. Be sure to scroll down to use the second search field to search the Commons Library
2. Click the image thumbnail
3. Click the down arrow in the bottom right to choose the size you want to download
4. Find the image in Downloads or on Desktop on a Mac

Search images under the Attribution License
(you may use these images however you’d like, as is, with modification, for commercial purposes, just as long as you credit the original creator)

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/

1. Search images under the Attribution license
2. Click the image thumbnail
3. Click the down arrow in the bottom right to choose the size you want to download
4. Find the image in Downloads or on Desktop on a Mac

Search Google Images

1. Go to google.com and click on Images at the top right
2. Search for an image
3. Click on Tools
4. Choose large images from the Size drop Down
5. Choose from the Usage Rights drop down “Labeled for Reuse with Modification”
6. Click on the image thumbnail
7. Click on the View Image button
8. Right click or control click the image and choose “Save as” to name it

About Creative Commons Licenses

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Royalty Free Music for Film and Video

http://dig.ccmixter.org/

Online Registration for Design and Media Arts Classes

Online Registration is now Open for Design and Media Arts Classes!  Register now for Early Bird Registration.  Classes will be $35 instead of $40 until January 12, 2017.

To register for classes now click on the following links:

 

Digital Portfolio	Adobe After Effects	Adobe Illustrator

Now Accepting New Students!
No Previous Experience Necessary.

For more information, please visit the ABC Adult School website at:

http://www.abcadultschool.edu/

For walk-in registration go to:

CTEC Office in Room G4
12254 Cuesta Drive
Cerritos, CA 90703

 

Water Drops Slow Motion

High Frame Rate Video

This is an example of footage shot at a high frame rate to capture the detail of a water drop.

New Adobe Premiere Pro CC Class

I am writing to you to let you know of a very special opportunity to sign up for a new session of the Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud (CC) class that begins this Tuesday, September 6!

Click to learn more 

Sign up online now!

The school has upgraded all of the equipment with special grant funding.

Enjoy learning all the latest industry standard studio equipment:

• Adobe CC software
• New High speed Mac computers with 32 GB RAM
• High speed fios Internet connection
• WiFi is also available for mobile devices
• High definition professional quality studio camera
• High quality sound recording.
• Professional green screen studio complete with high end lighting equipment.

This semester will be especially exciting because we are going to have more opportunity for creative work and project based learning.  By the end of the course you will have created four original videos.  This could be your chance to go viral on YouTube!

We are also an official Adobe Certification testing site.  You will have the opportunity to take the Adobe Certification practice test in the class for free as many times as needed.  Sign up online now, and join us!