LV Academy

Is music your life?... then make it your career. Don’t pay expensive tuition and commit years to a full-time music school when you can learn from the best at Listen Vision Academy. Attend the advanced, abbreviated, and intensive individual courses listed below.

Pro Tools 101 [ Introduction to Pro Tools ]

The Introduction to Pro Tools course covers basic Pro Tools principles, giving you everything you need to complete a Pro Tools project, from initial set up to final mixdown. This course focuses on Pro Tools 8 software and covers a multitude of new functions and feature enhancements. Whether your project involves recording of live instruments, MIDI sequencing of software synthesizers, audio editing or region looping, this course will give you the basic skills to succeed.

Topics Include:

• Getting to Know Pro Tools
  (record, edit, mix, process, and deliver audio)
  
• Getting Inside Pro Tools
  
• Creating Your First Session
  
• Making Your First Audio Recording
  
• Importing media and techniques, including setting levels
  
• Making your first MIDI recording
  
• Basic Editing Techniques
  
• Introduction To Mixing
  
• Finishing Your work.

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Tuition:

Pre-paid: $999
Hourly: $70/hr

Radio and Commercial Production

The Radio and Commercial Production course focuses on audio recording and editing when producing for commercial use — including radio, TV, and internet. Students will learn to understand the use of sound effects, talk over’s and music, depending on the ad or commercial.

Syllabus:

• Section 1
  Terminology and Background, History of Radio, Radio Technology
  
  
• Section 2
  Promotional Jingles
  
  
• Section 3
  Intros and Outtros
  
  
• Sections 4
  Promos and Sweepers
  
  
• Section 5
  Advertisement and PSA (Public Service Announcements)
  
  
• Section 6
  Voice-overs and On-Air Talent

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Audio and Music Production

Syllabus:

• Section 1
  Understanding Sound Spectrum; Acoustics; Sound Proofing and Treating; Intro to Microphones; and Microphone Techniques
  
  
• Section 2
  Equalization; Compression; Gating; Delays; Reverberation
  
  
• Section 3
  Creating a Beat from Scratch Using Midi and Virtual Instruments
  
  
• Section 4
  Recording Vocals and Live Instruments
  
  
• Section 5
  Finalizing Your Mix

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Digital Video Editing

This course explores techniques that can be applied in a range of non-linear editing programs, including: Final Cut, iMovie, Sony Vegas, LiveType and Vision Lab Studio. Yet the main focus is not just on developing software skills—it’s on exploring the magic behind video editing. Challenging projects include editing a commercial, an interview, a narrative scene, a music video, a video diary, and a text title sequence.

Syllabus:

Section 1 - Intro To Video Editing

• Getting Started with Final Cut and iMovie: The Editing Process, FCE Suit, Sony Vegas, The importance of planning, Adjusting preferences
  
• Understanding the Interface: Overviews of Browser Window, Viewer, Canvas, Timeline, Tools and Audio Meters, Configuring the workspace; Editing samples

Section 2 - Importing and Organizing

• Importing Your Footage: Importing from cameras, Importing audio files from CDs, Importing photos, Using iPhoto, Importing an iMovie project
• Organizing Your Story: Going beyond, Selecting clips, Creating subclips, Using markers, Deleting clips, Storyboard editing, Making a three-point edit, Assembling a rough cut.

Section 3 - Precise Cuts and Intro To Audio Editing

• Trimming Your Story: The trimming tools, Using multiple tracks to edit, The Trim Edit window, Dynamic JKL trimming, Keeping in sync while trimming
  
• Editing Audio: Editing audio overview, Setting audio levels, Panning audio, Creating audio transitions, Narrating with the Voice-over tool, Essential audio filters

Section 4 - Transitions and Titles

• Using Transitions: Creating a video transition, Editing a transition, Choosing good transitions, Saving custom transitions.
  
• Adding Titles: Titling overview, Lower thirds, Adding credits, Boris text, LiveType overview.

Section 5 - Green Screen Compositing and Vector Animation

• Using LiveType, Vision Lab Studio and iMovie: students will composite footage using Chroma Key plug-ins, Incorporate animated vector graphics in green screen footage, Blend special effects with raw footage using Vision Lab Studio.

Section 6 - Rendering Projects and Output Options

• Rendering settings, Memory Management, Exporting for the web, Exporting for DVD, Exporting for an iPod, Conclusion, Where to go from here

Course Structure

Tuition:

Pre-paid: $3000
Houlry: $100/hr