Get hands-on experience with some of the industry’s leading creators. Our educational workshops give you the chance to learn, practice, and participate.
Friday
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B&H presents: Final Cut Pro for Beginners
For millions of video creators, Final Cut Pro is the go-to editing software. If you haven’t gone to it yet, it’s time to start the journey. Learn the fundamentals of FCP and hone your editing skills under the guidance of Giuseppe De Angelis.
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Digi Bootcamp - Featuring the Sloth Invasion!
The Internet is changing everything. Shooting People’s Ingrid Kopp helps you navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape by examining case studies and the many funding, crowd-sourcing, production, marketing, audience-engagement, and distribution tools available to storytellers. Documentarian Lucy Cooke joins to recount how she went from not knowing what Twitter was to creating a viral sloth video that changed her life.
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Western Digital Presents: Lighting for Video
Light is what enables you to see your subject, but do you know how to go beyond the obvious and use illumination to your advantage? Learn invaluable tips and tricks to improve the way you light and shoot with WD Creative Master and industry veteran Bruce Dorn.
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How to Make 3D Titles the Greyscalegorilla Way
Learn how to grab your audience’s attention from the get-go with 3D titles. Motion graphics guru and Greyscalegorilla founder Nick Campbell shows you the fundamentals of title design and takes you through the basics of the software program Cinema 4D. Don’t stress if you’re just a beginner—all the information will be presented simply, and you’ll have so much fun that you’ll be extruding NURBS in no time. Confused by the jargon, but still curious? Come enter the third dimension!
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The New Vimeo: Behind the Scenes With the Vimeo Developers
We spent over a year creating the best Vimeo yet, and now we want to tell you how we did it (spoiler alert: a lot of smoke and a lot of mirrors). Our development squadron takes you on in-depth tour of the new site design and the technology that went into creating a Vimeo that’s easier to use, more fun, and even more respectful of the videos you create.
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Proactive Storytelling Instead of Reactive Coverage
When documenting an event, you need to learn to think ahead, but also adapt on the fly—it’s those split-second decisions that can truly forge your story and make your coverage stand out. Presented by stillmotion.
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Western Digital Presents: Digital Workflow
One of the best parts of shooting on digital is the efficiency it affords—provided you know how to attain it. Join storage-industry pioneer Western Digital, and one of the world’s most influential photographers, WD Creative Master Bruce Dorn, as they share digital workflow secrets that will keep your production moving. This workshop also touches on the the importance of figuring out your backup solution before disaster strikes.
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The Right Camera for the Right Job
We live in an era of abundant electronics—but it’s easy to suffer from analysis paralysis as you attempt to choose the right piece of gear. Do you do the research yourself or let an expert tell you what you need? Maybe a little bit of both, but here we’ll let the expert start the conversation. Learn the pros, cons, and compromises of popular cameras from director Philip Bloom.
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.tv presents: Creation to Curation: The Lifecycle of Content
Where videos end up have a lot to do with where they start. Learn how well crafted, personality-filled content gets made and then plucked from the pack to be showcased for savvy audiences. Featuring filmmakers from Korduroy.tv and the founders of VHX.tv.
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Sound: the Other Half of Your Video
Learn how sound can help shape and give life to your videos at this special workshop by Michael Coleman, producer of the SoundWorks Collection series. Coleman profiles the sound industry’s best ears (and minds) to deliver invaluable insight on the often-overlooked role of audio in visual storytelling.
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Don't Worry About Your Gear: Casey Neistat's Guide to Getting Started
Do you yearn to express your creative vision, but don’t have access to the latest and greatest gear? Don’t despair! Casey Neistat shows you how to capture the story you want to tell while maximizing the equipment at your immediate disposal. If you’re just getting into the world of video, this highly practical workshop is the perfect launchpad for your ideas.
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DTS presents: Music Sound Design with Diego Stocco
Join Diego as he shares with you how soundtracks can be generated by playing unlikely sources. Whether it’s amplifying a tree or wringing harmonious noise from a trash can, this auditory-focused workshop will have you searching for soundwaves in new places.
Saturday
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B&H presents: Adobe Premiere for Beginners
Adobe Premiere is a powerful and increasingly popular editing program that integrates seamlessly with the entire Adobe Creative Suite. Learn the basics of this dynamic software from Adobe master trainer Abba Shapiro.
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Animation Creation Station, Audience Participation
Come animate with Sean Pecknold and Kirsten Lepore, along with moderator Andy Bruntel. The trio will set up several animation “stations” and lead an audience-driven stop-motion demo that covers down-shooter, paper cut-out, clay, and pixilation techniques, as well as some general stop-motion tips. There also may be dancing.
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Vimeo Everywhere: Behind the Scenes With the Vimeo Developers
Vimeo is not just for computers—it purrs like a pixelated kitten on smartphones, tables, and connected TVs of many kinds. We’ll tell you about the challenges and triumphs involved in making a gigantic website accessible on lots of different platforms all over the world.
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How Storytelling Makes Better Video
Before you think about gear and editing for a particular project, you should ask yourself what stories you want to share. Whether you’re shoot a simple birthday party or a complex multi-day event, you need to keep your audience in mind. A little planning can go a long way toward telling a tale that people love to follow. Presented by writer/director/producer Steve Stockman.
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Getty Images Presents: Taking Your Shots to Market
Creativity is its own reward, but getting paid for it is pretty nice, too. Join professional filmmaker Enrique Pacheco as he teaches you how you can make money from the footage you’re already taking, as well as how to go out and get video that people want to pay you for.
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From Citizen to Freelancer: The New Video-Journalism
Technology is opening up the news industry. Now more than ever, media organizations are relying on citizen journalists to provide images from countries and situations that are hard to reach, and regularly involving the public in the daily process of news gathering. But what makes a good citizen journalist, and how do news outlets work with them to produce stories? And for those looking to join the professional ranks, what skills are needed to make it as a freelancer? This fascinating look at how technology is reshaping the news industry is filled with practical information and advice for emerging videojournalists and reporters from Lila King of CNN iReport and Matthew O’Neill and John Alpert of New York’s DCTV.
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99 Secrets Every New Filmmaker Should Know with DANIELS
Come learn the 99 irrefutably most important secrets to successful moviemaking in just one hour. The most educational 60 minutes you could possibly sit through is a mix of stories from inside the industry, illuminating anecdotes from the set, and key bits of wisdom that will improve your life. Plus, if there’s time, we’ll do group activities! Presented by industry giants Daniel and Daniel, who have been working professionals in the music video and commercial industries for about a year, or maybe technically a year and a half, but it’s hard to figure out when to start counting, so to be safe let’s say two years.
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Documentary Editing: Lucy Walker's Secret Rules
Documentaries are made in the edit room — find out how. Two-time Academy Award-nominated director Lucy Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight, Countdown to Zero, Waste Land, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom) shares her secrets: the no-fail rules that can help documentarians realize the potential of the scariest morass of raw footage. Lucy covers practical tips on process, as well as lessons she’s learned the hard way, such as how to avoid boring your audience, how to make or break your film with B-roll, how to determine the perfect length for your doc, and what we can all learn from airport bestsellers.
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Vimeo Tips and Tricks
Join members of our community team as they show you how to get the most out of your Vimeo experience. From gaining viewership to finding collaborators to harnessing all the available tools and features, the Vimeo team will reveal it all. Please note: High fives may be widely distributed.
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Igniting the Imagination of Many
The democratization of tools used to reach people through video has disrupted the concept of “the audience.” But how does one take advantage of this disruption? People are no longer just passive viewers—they are their own media companies, watching on their own terms and publishing for the world to see. In this special workshop, storytelling pioneer Lance Weiler places you within an open design process, and together the room will go from an idea to a fully formed collaborative story in less than an hour, demonstrating ways to break with tradition, leverage new tools, and engage increasingly an selective viewership—those formerly known as the audience.
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Impossible Things on a Shoestring
What happens when unlimited ambition meets limited budgets? A lot, as it turns out. Listen in as Josh Ruben and Vincent Peone take us through their experiences as professional filmmakers who’ve made a name for themselves in the Internet video industry and beyond, all while using basic resources that most of us can access.
