In this course students will learn the workflows associated with editing audio, video, graphics, and text. A strong emphasis is placed on demonstration and hands-on experience in this course. Students will become familiar with developing editing scripts, managing content, importing media, editing, and encoding for distribution across multiple platforms. Instructors will also discuss editing concepts which provide a thorough understanding of technique and theory used by professional editors. Exploring these concepts will provide a better understanding of how messages and stories are told through editing. Editing media will be provided for all exercises and projects.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create, edit, and export a new project optimized for various multimedia formats.
• Discuss the media management workflow from acquisition to distribution.
• Differentiate between formats and choose appropriate settings for starting a project.
• Identify buttons, menu items and shortcut icons and define their function.
• Arrange the interface and customize their workspaces based on specific editing needs.
• Create and structure bins and folders in the project window.
• Explain the reasoning for creating proxy files and describe the process of encoding for final export.