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This three-day course provides the most extensive must-know professional techniques for cutting dialogue scenes, action scenes, fight and chase scenes, documentaries, comedy, music videos, multi-camera projects and more. This course also covers Soundtrack Pro, audio finishing, managing clips and media, and working with film. Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending the course: Final Cut Pro 101, 200 or 250. This class will run Friday through Sunday, August 7th - 9th Class Hours: 9am to 5pm Class Cost: $1,200.00 Register Here

This one-day course taught by our own Jamie Hitchings , delivers comprehensive training in real-world color correction techniques, including scene-to-scene color matching, and correcting for broadcast specifications. Working with several real-world projects, you will learn how to properly read video scopes, adjust contrast, fix color balance to achieve broadcast quality video. You'll also learn useful techniques to selectively 'fix' or 'enhance' problems areas of a picture as well as creating one or two popular 'looks'. Who Should Attend? This is a jam-packed day designed for intermediate level FCP users who wish to increase their skill level through learning advanced features and workflows in color correction. Familiarity with Final Cut Pro including how to apply and modify filters and navigate the timeline is required. Take your editing skills further by utilizing another application in Final Cut Studio. Date: Saturday - August 8, 2009 Hours: 10am - 5pm C...

Here's another short by our MEW Graduate Logan Freeman for Biking for Obama . For those of you who aren't familiar with Ryan's "epic journey from LA to DC on the Highway of Hope" be sure to check it out! Biking for Obama preview from Logan Freeman on Vimeo .

We just finished a weekend of Color 101 and a Motion Masterclass! One very busy weekend for the MEWShop! Fortunately, both classes were complete successes. We just received some feedback from quite a few of our Masterclass attendees and thought we'd share what they shared with us.... Laurence said "Learning how to send FCP sequences to Motion, making changes in Motion, saving the changes, then seeing the sequence automatically update in FCP" were what stood out most to him in the class. And when asked what encouraged Forrest to take the Motion Masterclass he said "I like MEW and the fact they give a discount for grads is awesome. " So Yeah!!! for a knowledgeable and friendly staff at Manhattan Edit Workshop.

This one is from Kristen Studio Check it out! This past weekend was the first east coast Edit Fest, put on by American Cinema Editors (A.C.E) in conjunction with The Manhattan Edit Workshop. There were a lot of heavy hitters (Thelma Schoonmaker was a no show, unfortunately, but her long time First Assistant Editor, Scott Brock, was there and he was terrific) who provided examples of their work, talked about their process and offered advice for those who were just getting in the business. I noticed the attendance appeared to be a big mix of people who looked fresh out of school and those with experience. It was evident in the age range of the audience as well as the questions that were being asked at the end of each panel. I also thought it interesting that many of the attendees weren’t from New York. A lot of people seemed to be from surrounding areas, like D.C. and Boston. The Friday night opening panel consisted of moderator Randy Roberts, A.C.E. (President of American Cinema Ed...

Manhattan Edit Workforce - Connecting Students with Employers "Less starving, more artist" is the tagline for Manhattan Edit Workshop's Six-week Intensive course in the art and technique of editing. Manhattan Edit Workshop or MEWshop as they are known, is an Apple Authorized Training Center (AATC) located in New York City. Their signature Six-week Intensive program serves as a comprehensive jump-start for students who are serious about launching a career in post production. Like all AATCs, MEWshop is constantly looking for new ways to connect students with employers, especially in these turbulent economic times. To this end, they launched their Manhattan Edit Workforce program. It's a simple plan. Each student in the Six Week Intensive Workshop cuts a demo reel over the course of the program. Each reel is paired with the student's resume and archived on a private web page. The reels and resumes are then shared with participating editing facilities. MEWshop recruit...

FCP 250 This two-day hands-on course introduces students to the primary feature set and interface of Final Cut Pro. Using Avid editing terminology and references as stepping-stones, this course translates a student’s existing editing talents to the FCP skill set. In this course students learn Final Cut Pro editing operations - capturing, sound editing, creating bins and sequences, as well as Final Cut Pro’s extensive effects package, real time color correcting and numerous tips and keyboard shortcuts for everything in between. Weekend intensives are from 10am-6pm . Cost: $1200 (includes Apple Certified Courseware) Certification cost: Free with course Register Here

Film editor and USC Graduate Film Alumni David Salter got his start assisting on the hit TV series NYPD Blue . He moved to feature films by way of Pixar Animation Studios, as editor on the films Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo . Always looking for a new challenge, David found himself in the world of non-fiction, co-editing the Errol Morris documentary, Standard Operating Procedure . David is equally comfortable in the world of fiction, docs, animation and even video game editing, where he is currently applying his extensive skill-set. Mewshop is proud to include David Salter as a Summer 2009 Artist in Residence.

EditFest NY Opening Panel

Have you been interested in learning more about Motion? You are in luck!  MEWShop is running another Masterclass on Saturday, July 25th and this time it's all about Motion!   This one day, intensive, hands-on workshop will take you from learning Motion's overall workflow (as both a stand alone application and as part of Final Cut Studio), to tackling real-world projects using built-in and third-party solutions. Class subjects include:     * Understanding 3D (cameras, lights, etc.)     * Basic keying techniques     * Roundtripping in Final Cut Studio     * Working with filters, keyframes & behaviors This workshop is geared towards existing Final Cut Studio users who are looking to use Motion as a more integrated part of their overall projects. Each student gets their own workstation. This class is on Saturday, July 25th and will go 10am to 5pm. See you there! Click here to register .

The Artist-in-Residence Program is a core component of MEWShop's Six Week Art of Editing Workshop.  Top film editors join the class to screen and discuss their work, while students share their edits for comments and critique.  Recently we had award winning editor Kate Sanford participate.  Six Week Instructor Jamie Hitchings shares the following "Kate discussed her long and creative career, spanning from a production assistant to head editor.  She gave the students powerful insight into the world of editing for television and contrasted that against feature editing.  She was able to convey the tasks of an editor on a day to day basis on "The Wire" such as how the editor fits into the larger team of post production.  The students found this talk informative and had many great questions for Kate, which she answered with great detail." Look for Kate's visit as part of our podcast series in the months ahead.   Our next Six Week Intensive Workshop begins Sept...

Herb and Dorothy is a fascinating documentary about a couple whose passion has been and is to purchase original works of art.  They met in 1960, a year later were wed and have been purchasing art together ever since!  What kind of art you might ask?  Mostly minimalist art from unknown artists. How would they decide on what to purchase?  Their instincts!  They just had to like it and that was that!  What did they use for income?  Herb's mailman salary!   This film gives us a peak into relationships built with several artists over the years, including Chuck Close and Sol Lewitt,  and how/why they purchased art as they did.  Herb and Dorothy's one bedroom (rent controlled) apartment was filled from top to bottom with art exploding from every corner... a neat freak's nightmare.  Fortunately, The National Gallery of Art came a calling to assist them in displaying their treasures to help educate America!     Our very own Guest Lecturers Peter Levin and Barbara Parks were the re-...

Lessons for Filmmaking Teens   by Marisa Taylor  With the advent of Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, the so-called millennial generation is more adept than ever at sharing the details of their daily lives online. filming_D_20090706181437.jpgGetty Images But there may now be demand to do so in a more artistic way. Manhattan Edit Workshop, a small New York film school, has started a $2,000 class called “From You to YouTube: Filmmaking, Evolved.” In two two-week sessions, Mac-friendly 12- to 18-year-olds will learn the basics of shooting and editing. The goal is to learn how to compress the final product down to a Web-friendly size, according to Josh Apter, the school’s owner. The class’s emphasis is on storytelling and filmmaking, not just uploading the home-video footage that is often found on YouTube, he said, but “‘From You to Vimeo’ didn’t quite have the same ring to it.” The first week will focus on story structure, camera technique and pre-production, then students will spend several...

We have your class.  FCP 250 Starting on Saturday, July 18, 2009.  This two-day hands-on course introduces students to the primary feature set and interface of Final Cut Pro. Using Avid editing terminology and references as stepping-stones, this course translates a student’s existing editing talents to the FCP skill set. In this course students learn Final Cut Pro editing operations - capturing, sound editing, creating bins and sequences, as well as Final Cut Pro’s extensive effects package, real time color correcting and numerous tips and keyboard shortcuts for everything in between. Apple Pro Certification available for this course. Weekend intensives are from 10am-6pm . Cost: $1200 Register Here

We hope you get plenty of R&R and see some of these lovelies! and.... don't forget about all the amazing classes coming up! July 6th- FCP 200 July 13th- Avid 101/110 July 18th- FCP 250 July 24th- Color 101 July 25th- Motion Masterclass August 3rd- You to Youtube