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Cutting stills and video with music is an essential skill for any editor. So join Premiere Pro guru Abba Shapiro in this course, as he shows how to cut a music-based slideshow (still images with music) and cut a music montage (video clips with music) in Premiere Pro CC. Learn how to read an audio waveform, place markers on beats, and fine-tune the timing of your cuts. The course also introduces several workflows to reduce the time it takes to create a music-based edit.

The Timeline is the heart of the Adobe Premiere Pro editing environment. It is where we make our most crucial editorial decisions and where we keep all of our finishing steps organized. This course focuses on making the most of the Timeline during all phases of the editing process. Premiere Pro Guru Jason Osder will help you master navigating, marking, and adding new content to the timeline, as well as controlling your tracks better with keyboard shortcuts and features like snapping, locking, linking, and labeling. Plus, learn to make more precise edits and save time with track presets.

Good audio makes for great video, and with Premiere Pro, you can make your audio sound great. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Luisa Winters walks through the process of mixing audio—adjusting levels, adding transitions, and more—and then stepping it up a notch with some commonly used effects, such as EQ, reverb, and de-essing. She also includes tips for changing the length and speed of your audio tracks, recording scratch tracks, and exporting audio separately from video.

Adobe Premiere Pro made waves when it started supporting native editing of compressed and raw file formats. It's usually the best decision to edit natively. However, there are still advantages of transcoding or changing the format of the video to facilitate the editing process. Do you know your choices if you do choose a transcoded workflow? Premiere Pro Guru: Transcoding Workflows explores all the relevant tools and techniques to help you decide when and how to transcode. Post-production pro Jason Osder helps you understand the pros and cons of transcoding, and introduces different transcoding workflows for Premiere Pro, Adobe Media Encoder, and Prelude: transcoding at the very beginning, in the middle while you're working, or at the end during output.

Finishing is the last step before a video project can be considered complete. It includes tasks like checking for gaps, bad transitions, and other visual errors, and may require color correction, broadcast legalization, or finessing of graphics. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, colorist and author Robbie Carman guides you through finishing a video with Premiere Pro CC and other Creative Cloud applications. He'll walk you through each step in a typical finishing workflow, from improving a render to developing your final look. So dive in and learn how to take your projects from good to great.

Learn to creatively compose short-form advertisements using Adobe Premiere Pro. Author Christine Steele explores how to communicate and market an idea that does more than just sell a product or service, by experimenting with concepts that help the audience feel, rather than think. The techniques in this course break from the more narrative style of film and television storytelling, and allow you to explore alternative visual messaging styles. First Christine shows you how to use style frames and temporary audio to nail down an idea before you start editing. Then you'll learn how to construct the rough cut: in this case, an action montage interspersed with hero shots that define and highlight the brand messaging. You'll refine your cut with motion graphics, final audio, and effects, and learn to manipulate color, lighting, and timing to increase your audience's emotional reaction to the spot. Last, learn the basics of layering sound effects, audio filters, and subtle volume adjustments to create an effective sound mix for your commercial.

A career in sales starts with the basics. Being self-confident and engaging with others are the keys to your success. In this course, sales coach Dean Karrel provides career advice for anyone who wants to become a sales professional. Learn tips for keeping things simple, focusing on the positive, recognizing the accomplishments of other members of your team, and keeping your ego in check. When it comes to developing relationships with others, learn the basics of a proper greeting, such as eye contact, a handshake, and even a smile. Dean also emphasizes the importance of knowing how to listen, remembering people's names, and following through on a commitment. No matter what sales techniques or strategies you end up using to achieve your goals, these skills are the foundation to a long and successful career in sales.

Love it or hate it, your review is the best record of your performance. Careful preparation can ensure you articulate your needs, have examples of your best work ready, and anticipate and answer questions your boss might ask. Discover how to prepare for your review and make it a productive conversation. Todd Dewett shares three simple steps for success.

Packaging is where engineering meets design. Learn about the basics of designing packages for everything from foodstuffs to fragrance, in ways that are practical for manufacturing and shipping, and make the products visually appealing. Author Claudia McCue reviews the types of containers real packaging engineers consider, and then concentrates on folding cartons, which can be created with the tools available to most designers: Adobe InDesign and Illustrator. Learn how to create dielines (the flattened view of your product) and add artwork and text. Then find out how to print and cut out a mockup version of your packaging, and prepare the job for professional printing. Claudia also takes you for a quick view of the factory floor, where products are packed into their final containers.

A thorough prepress analysis and press check can mean the difference between a successful print job and a disappointing one. There is a lot to know, from how to prepare files to what to look for on press. So join Claudia McCue in the printing plant, as she walks through every aspect of the process and defines the key terms that will make sure you and your printer are speaking the same language. Find out what happens during the prepress phase and in the pressroom, and get checklists (included with the exercise files) to help you feel confident your jobs are printed as planned and on budget.

Pro Tools is the industry-standard software for music and post-production. Get started from the ground up in this course with producer Skye Lewin, as he shows you how to record, edit, mix, and master audio and MIDI in Pro Tools. Skye teaches you how to create music with virtual instruments and plugins, work with audio and video files, and make both basic edits and more advanced ones with tools like Elastic Time and Pitch. Plus, learn to create a musical score, write and edit automation, and mix with effects loops and more. Finally, discover how to bounce down a final master and export and archive your session. Whether you're a producer, a sound engineer, or a hobbyist, this course can help you become proficient in Pro Tools 11.

Pro Tools is an industry-leading software for professional-grade music creation, and the virtual instruments inside Pro Tools are some of the main tools used for creating that music. In this course, instructor Evan Sutton explores the virtual instruments in Pro Tools. He starts with the Boom drum machine, and then covers vintage keyboards, explaining how to work with the DB-33 Tonewheel Organ and the Mini Grand virtual piano instrument. Next, he dives into the sampler, Structure Free. Evan also covers XPand!2 and Vacuum, an analog modeled synth.

The project isn't over when the design is complete. The website also has to reach its users, which means tackling the inevitable issues that crop up on the way to a beautiful, working site. Make yourself invaluable by solving the problems no one else can, with this toolkit of solution-oriented techniques.

Learn to turn your web browser into a code inspector, cope with browser incompatibilities, perform cross-platform testing, and more. Justin Putney gives you the skills you need to address the unique problems in each new project—and ensure the quality of your design and your code.

Start communicating ideas and diagramming data in a more interactive way. In this course, author Barton Poulson shows how to read, map, and illustrate data with Processing, an open-source drawing and development environment. On top of a solid introduction to Processing itself, this course investigates methods for obtaining and preparing data, designing for data visualization, and building an interactive experience out of a design. When your visualization is complete, explore the options for sharing your work, whether uploading it to specialized websites, embedding the visualizations in your own web pages, or even creating a desktop or Android app for your work.

Behind every successful product there is a clear strategic vision that takes both market and customer needs into account. Essentially, strategy is the set of choices a company makes in order to achieve its objectives. These choices include which products to develop, which market segments to focus on, how to differentiate, how to price, how to position, and more. Product leaders are the guardians of a company's strategy. While many people and teams can contribute to developing a strategy, product leaders need to articulate it and ensure that it's done in a way that is applicable for day-to-day decision-making. This course lays out how to develop an effective product strategy. Instructors Eldad Persky and Teg Grenager walk through a step-by-step process for creating a smart, thoughtful strategy, and explain how to build support for it. Plus, they go over how to maintain and implement your strategy.

Photographing textiles, whether a shirt or a handmade quilt, requires careful styling and lighting to accurately show the texture of the fabric and the way it folds and drapes—and to make it look as beautiful as possible.

In this course, commercial photographer Konrad Eek explores the creative and technical decisions involved in photographing textiles. After introducing basics, such as ironing and folding, the course explores a variety of shooting scenarios, including photographing a garment on a slant board or against a wall, a blanket draped on a chair, and a stack of clothing. Konrad demonstrates basic lighting techniques as well as more advanced ones, such as using a cookie (also called a gobo or cuculoris) to cast dramatic shadows. The course concludes with a brief overview of the Adobe Photoshop post-processing often involved in textile photography.

This course introduces the many advanced features of the CINEMA 4D rendering and lighting toolsets. Discover how to better simulate real-world surfaces, photography, and lighting scenarios. Author Donovan Keith shows how to add realistic shallow depth-of-field effects with the physical renderer, use blurry reflections to create a type treatment, and light scenes with HDRI photographs and global illumination. Plus, learn tricks for achieving similar effects under tight deadlines.

Design patterns are reusable solutions that solve the challenges software developers face over and over again. Rather than reinventing the wheel, learn how to make use of these proven and tested patterns that will make your software more reliable and flexible to change. This course will introduce you to design patterns and take you through seven of the most used object-oriented patterns that will make your development faster and easier. Elisabeth Robson and Eric Freeman, coauthors of Head First Design Patterns, join forces to provide an overview of each pattern and examples of the pattern in action. Featured design patterns include the strategy, observer, decorator, singleton, collection, state, and factory method patterns.

Google App Engine offers a development platform and hosting solution in one, and can be programmed with Python, Go, PHP, or Java (the most popular option). Patrick Royal shows you how to get up and running with Google App Engine, and how to program your own simple apps. Learn to set up an account and custom domain name to build, test, and release two simple projects: one developed in Java and the other in Python. In addition, you'll learn how to separate your app's functionality into efficient and secure modules, optimize your code, and evaluate your app with usage data and statistics from Google Analytics. Get started programming scalable, cloud-based projects with this powerful new platform.

Today's fast-moving projects generate a lot of email, phone calls, voicemail, and documentation. In this course, author Doug Rose shares the secrets of managing project communication. A solid communication strategy will help your team maximize buy-in, prioritize stakeholder input, and project results. Discover how to use a communication plan to develop two-way communication goals, run meetings, organize feedback, and create clear reports.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

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Project integration ensures all processes in a project run smoothly, and results in a properly synchronized series of deliverables such as the project charter, project plan, and preliminary project scope statement. This course will help managers plan the integration needs, communicate with staff and stakeholders, and integrate the project into an organizational portfolio. Along the way, Bob McGannon, PMP, shows how to ensure your scope, risk, and change approaches are in sync; recognize warning signs when integration goes awry; and plan the simultaneous integration of multiple projects and customer deliverables.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

In this course, author, PMP, and business analyst Terri Wagner demonstrates the importance of developing sound project requirements to make sure your project is scoped and planned right from the beginning. Learn the secrets of elicitation, working with stakeholders, and writing and managing requirements documentation.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

BAC, CV, ETC, TCPI. Don't let the alphabet of earned value acronyms deter you. Follow along with Aileen Ellis, PMP, PgMP, as she walks you through earned value calculation. Relevant for those considering the PMP exam or interested in better managing your project performance, this course shows you the calculations that make earned value management (EVM) one of the most critical project metrics. Aileen walks through two concrete examples, a construction project and a system upgrade, and shows how earned value metrics can help you calculate current performance and forecast future performance. Since it's not all a numbers game, interpret the results of these calculations and forecasts to make better project decisions.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Get up to speed with Proto.io, one of the leading prototyping platforms for UX and design teams, and start building and sharing interactive prototypes. This course shows how to make prototypes for a variety of devices, ranging from smartphones to tablets to desktops. Learn how to create screens and import artboards from Photoshop and Sketch. See how to add interactivity, photo, video, audio, and animation. Additionally, learn about sending your prototypes out for review, to provide testers and users with the opportunity to add comments to your projects.

With traditional media outlets, 24-hour news sites, Twitter, and Facebook all competing for attention, getting your message broadcast—and received—the way you want can be tricky. In this course, PR expert Deirdre Breakenridge identifies the qualities of a good media spokesperson, what to expect from interactions with journalists, how to enhance your message with stats and sound bites, and how to cater your delivery and message to specific media channels and audiences.

Watch the mock interview at the end of the course and see Deirdre's techniques and strategies in action.