Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Open only to Major. Corequisites: None

In this course students will learn the workflows associated with editing audio, video, graphics, and text. A strong emphasis is placed on demonstration and hands-on experience in this course. Students will become familiar with developing editing scripts, managing content, importing media, editing, and encoding for distribution across multiple platforms.

(This course was previously numbered 04:567:373.)

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Produce a multimedia project by creating, editing, and exporting content optimized for multiple formats.
  • Discuss the media management workflow from acquisition to distribution.
  • Select appropriate project settings based on an analysis of available formats.
  • Interpret multimedia interface elements by identifying buttons, menu items, and shortcut icons and explaining their functions.
  • Customize the workspace interface to support specific editing needs in a multimedia environment.
  • Organize project assets using bins and folders within the project window.
  • Explain the purpose of proxy files and their relationship to the final export process.