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Here is an elaborated list of the Programs / Applications I can use:

Final Cut Pro HD

I learned FCP at IADT - The Toronto Film School
Two terms of editing theory. Two terms of Final Cut Pro HD.

I can use this program to:
  • Log and Capture
  • Edit - Arrange clips and audio in tracks
  • Key Framing - Movement, Effects, Transitions
  • Export: Dump to tape, export for web and DVD – compression/formats.

    Adobe Premiere 6.0

    I have tried this program even before I started editing high school assignments on Imovie (Mac app. – shivers). Much like Final Cut Pro, I can use this program to:
  • Log and Capture
  • Edit - Arrange clips and audio in tracks
  • Key Framing - Movement, Effects, Transitions
  • Export: Dump to tape, export for web and DVD – compression and formats.

    Adobe PhotoShop CS2

    I have been using Photoshop before I started high school in 2000.
    Long before that I was regularly drawing - pencil and paper. A perfectionist ever since I can remember, I looked to computers for help. Undo (ctr+z), straight lines and solid colours - things that were limited with what I was used to. Messing around with MS Paint was the real intro, but that was quickly dropped for PhotoShop 5. A long list of undoes and layers - from there I followed all the tutorials that were then freely available and read nearly all the help files.

    So since 2000, I’ve been regularly using PhotoShop. It has been an addiction that I have made useful as often as possible.

    Things I can do with this program:
  • From Scratch: Shapes, drawing, pen tool.
  • Effects: All those filters in combination with layer blends, styles and masks.
  • Colour Correction: Colour profiles (*.icc), RGB, CMYK. Contrast, Brightness… Curves.
  • Noise Correction: Manual via tools, tricks via layers and effects
  • Enlarge and Shrink: Scaling (interpolation methods) + Noise Corrections and Sharpening.
  • Manipulations and Compositions: For a single 2D picture, with Photoshop, a camera and/or the right pictures – I can’t think of what I can’t do. From: taking multiple pictures and merging them into a single perspective, manipulating objects in the scene (adding subtracting, changing…), adjusting the entire scene (colour, balance).

    Adobe Illustrator CS

    I’ve read about it for some time now, but have not started using it till January 2006. Like as I did with PhotoShop, the best way to learn is the tedious way – reading the help files like a romance novel.
    Luckily knowing PhotoShop well helps get a good start and understand some things about this program very quickly. I don’t know Illustrator very well yet, but I can and have used it for a project to:
  • Set Text: text on path, text contained in path,
  • Organizing objects: Layers, shapes and text, in line and relative to each other.
  • Printing: colour profiles, press templates, printing options.

    • MS Office Apps

    • MS PowerPoint

      Taught in high school business courses, and used often in other high school courses and at my time at the IADT – things I can do with this program:
      • Organise a presentation: text, pictures, subnotes
      • Animate: Slide transitions, and sequencial text and/or pictures – automatic or manual.
      • Insert sounds and movies.

    • MS Word Perfect

      • Formating text: Collumns, lists, text boxes colours, styles
      • Inserting/Formatting Shapes and Picture: Word can be used to make things pretty
      • Tables: Often best to import from Excel
      • Spell Check: copy and paste – I use it to check everything.

    • MS Excel

      • Organise Spread Sheets: collum/row headings
      • Math/Functions: Cells to contain values based on other cell values
      • Graphs and Charts: click the botton, follow the steps and right-click to change after.
      • I actually have used Excel a lot.
      • I practically always make a sheet in Excel when I’m interested in buying something. I made 10 detailed charts when I was building my computer. All the separate components needed, states, stores and prices for all the models that were worth looking at. It was a lot of work, maybe a bit excessive, but I needed a great computer for the best price… and I did. I didn’t know much about computer components before, but I do now (early 2006).
      • Similar sheets were made for Cameras and Printers: It really helps me compare everything and understand their difference as best possible through stats.

    • MS Access

      • The Basics: Add/Change/Remove data/categories, and search.

    Canon PhotoStitch

    The first panoramic stitching program I used (when I bought my first camera in 2002 – Canon Optura 200MC). Still often used today, but nearly always corrected in PhotoShop. I know PhotoShop CS2 can now also do it… but I feel there’s a bit more control with Canon’s PhotoStitch because similar points can be selected as apposed to ‘fully-automatic”.

    Hugin / PanoTools

    Eventually after some research into the subject of stitching photos, I came across something called Panorama Tools. The abilities and functionality of this program is much more advanced then what I learned to stitch with (Canon PhotoStitcher), but the interface (or lack of one) got annoying. Eventually I found Hugin 0.5. Hugin allows me to use the algorithms of PanoramaTools, but in Graphical User Interface that does not feel like DOS.
    With this Program I can:
    • Organize pictures for stitching
    • Change Camera Properties
    • Select similar points
    • Customize Optimizations
    • Render to Layered .PSD image<./li>

    Maya

    Maya is a fantastic 3D program that I started learning with the purchase of my computer in January 2006. During the last two years of high school and a few rare exceptions during my time at film school, I used 3D Studio Max. I chose to learn film instead of 3D in college, but now I am going back to 3D.
    Learning Maya seems to take a lot more discipline then anything I needed to exert during film school. Not that going through film school was effortless, but that 3D is so immensely more complicated… more options and more to remember. I have to say I enjoy learning Maya and don’t think I’ll ever stop being amazed with what it can do. So. With this program, so for I can:
    • Model with NURBS and Polygons
    • Add / manipulate lights and cameras
    • Basic texturing
    • Adjust render settings
    • Basic to intermediate animations
    Oh so much to learn still… I try to read up on it every day.