Corporate Video Essentials: Post-Production

Learn how to take all the video you shot and turn it into a polished, final product with graphics, music, narration, and flow, then share it with your client.

Introduction

• What you'll learn in this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Transitioning from Production to Post

• Properly transferring and organizing media
• Reviewing deliverables to determine sequence settings

2. Using Interview Transcripts

• The role of transcripts
• Identifying the best sound bites for an editing script
• Software to speed up transcription workflows

3. Using Voiceover Narration

• How can voiceover help tell a story?
• Auditioning voice talent
• Using a scratch track then recording for real

4. Organizing Your Footage

• Working with bins
• Subclipping footage
• Adding metadata to help organize footage

5. From Radio to Rough Cut

• Creating a story arc for corporate video
• Assembling a radio cut
• Adding essential B-roll

6. Building a Soundtrack

• Organizing audio tracks in a sequence
• Choosing and licensing music tracks
• Creating a rough audio mix
• Mixing for multiple platforms

7. Essential Graphics

• The role of graphics
• Adding lower thirds for speakers

8. Polishing the Edit

• An introduction to color correction for video
• Trimming video and working with transitions
• Managing sequence reviews remotely
• Controlling the review process

9. Exporting Your Project

• Reviewing the project's requirements before output
• An introduction to captioning
• Choosing the right export formats for archive
• Export your video for web delivery and presentation playback

10. Future-Proofing Your Project

• Why back up a project and media?
• What to archive for a video project
• Project closeout

Conclusion

• Next steps and recommended learning