Post-Production Productivity

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Free Online Course: Post-Production Productivity provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 6 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Post-Production Productivity is taught by Zack Arnold.

Overview
  • Discover techniques and tools for being highly productive under the crush of information, data, and tasks associated with being a video editor.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome to Post-Production Productivity
    • What you need to know
    1. Project Organization and Setup in Avid
    • Organizing your main project
    • Naming your sequences or outputs
    • Creating your "Elements" project
    • Setting up a sharing system
    2. Dailies and Timeline Organization in Avid
    • Organizing raw dailies: Single camera workflow
    • Using colors to keep your projects and elements organized
    • Organizing raw dailies: Multicamera workflow
    • Building KEM rolls to view your dailies
    • Selects organization
    • Organizing and naming video tracks
    • Logging and organizing errors and tech issues
    • Organizing and naming audio tracks
    3. Building Your Post-Production Workflow with Trello
    • Going deeper with your Trello structure map
    • Using colors to organize and track your editorial progress
    • Managing editorial teams with Trello
    • Tracking your time with Toggl
    • Intro to building your post workflow with Trello
    • Creating and organizing "notes" checklists
    • Outsourcing repetitive tasks to Trello checklists
    • Slack for team communication
    4. Getting Things Done (GTD) For Editors
    • Keeping things organized in OmniFocus with the Review feature
    • Creating checklists in Trello to batch process tasks
    • Organizing editorial tasks in Trello by energy level
    • Creating custom perspectives in OmniFocus
    • Using Trello for GTD (instead of OmniFocus)
    • Using OmniFocus to capture your tasks
    • Using OmniFocus to sort your actions and projects
    • Creating timeline presets to edit in contexts
    • Using OmniFocus to assign contexts
    5. Email Management For Editors
    • Cleaning up your inbox using Trello, OmniFocus, and Evernote
    • Introduction to inbox zero
    • How to declare email bankruptcy
    • Filtering email messages and paperwork
    • Advanced tools to organize your inbox
    6. Information Overload and Your External Brain
    • How to deal with FOMO
    • Sorting information sources with Feedly
    • Capturing useful information with Pocket
    • Organizing materials with Evernote
    • Making room for creativity with your external brain
    • Capturing information to your external brain
    • Sorting and processing info in your external brain
    7. Time Blocking and Advanced Tools and Apps
    • Organizing your daily and weekly calendar to avoid crunch time
    • Intro to time blocking for editors
    • Prioritizing notifications and minimizing distractions
    • Apps to help you time block
    • Browser extensions and apps to maximize focus
    • Saving time with TextExpander
    • Automating with Hazel
    Conclusion
    • Taking your productivity to the next level