Avid Assistant Editing Workshop

This workshop will provide trainees with:

Assistant editing fundamentals:

• • Project workflows
  • Ingesting, transcoding, syncing
  • Project setup and organization
  • Working with sound and music
  • Basic VFX and titles
  • Outputs
  • Scheduling, logs, etc.
  • How to work with an editor including editing room protocol and politics

Editing processes and principles:

• • Creative approach
  • Assembly through rough cut editing
  • Receiving and implementing feedback
  • How to work with an editor
  • An understanding of departmental roles and operations
  • Group and one on one instruction

Full and partial scholarships are available.

Workshop is limited to 8 participants.

Some advance preparation work will be required before the start of the workshop. Assignments will be given to trainees in between workshops. One on one sessions may be scheduled outside regular class times during evenings and weekends.

All trainees will be provided with an AVID Media Composer seat and a LaCie USB 3.0 drive with footage to be used in the workshop.

Pre-requisites: . Basic understanding of AVID Media Composer or thorough understanding of other editing platforms like Adobe Premiere combined with the ability to take online AVID tutorials before the start of the workshop. Stockade Works will provide online resources.

Technology requirements: Use of a computer for the duration of the workshop that meets the following system requirements:

AVID Media Composer

LaCie USB 3.0 Drive

This workshop is open to all community members, and is specifically seeking candidates from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, women, and those historically excluded from the film industry.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Session 1, Sunday, October 9: 2pm-4pm – Overview of workshop along with sample project. Virtual

Session 2, Sunday, October 16: 4pm-7pm – Workflow. Everything from dailies, receiving footage, to script syncing and prepping bins for your editor. In Person

Session 3, Sunday, October 23: 3pm-6pm – Director/Editor meeting. Students will begin to edit their scenes. Virtual

Session 4: Sunday, October 30: 3pm-6pm – VFX workflow and assisting during directors cut.  Temp comps and tracking. Virtual

Session 5: Sunday, November 6:  10am-1:30pm – Turnovers overview, how different departments work together and how to send exports to different departments. Virtual

Session 6: Sunday, November 27: 3pm-6pm – Final post/presentations. In Person                                                                                  

INSTRUCTORS:

Midnight Piper Forman – Assistant Editor/Instructor

Midnight Forman is a trans-disciplinary queer filmmaker, professional film editor and visual artist known for their creative contributions to anti-displacement movements and for boundary-pushing, collective public art projects. They have a Bachelors in Interdisciplinary Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Masters in Film and Television Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where they were awarded a Les Blank Foundation grant to direct ‘In the Shell of the Old’, a documentary exploration of the social history of haunting at LA’s abandoned Lincoln Heights Jail.

Mary Stuart Masterson – Director/Guest Instructor

After a hiatus to “produce” her family, Mary Stuart moved to New York’s Hudson Valley and founded Stockade Works, 501(c)(3) a local crew training and mentorship program, and Upriver Studios, a woman-led sustainable production facility opening in 2020. She is also Co-Founder and Resident Director of Storyhorse Documentary Theater Project.

In 2019, she, Alexandra Brodsky and Cassandra Del Viscio founded Quality Pictures, a Hudson Valley-based productions company to create quality entertainment for social impact amplifying diverse voices and innovating production practices to create positive work-life balance.

Sean Albertson – A.C.E. Motion Picture Editor/Guest Instructor