This training workshop is designed for anyone new to documentary editing (or wanting a refresher), using Adobe Premiere Pro software. You'll learn the interface, how to establish a workflow, ingest files, use tools to trim/place/move your material where you want it, incorporate still pictures, and add basic transitions/titles/effects. You'll use provided footage for practice material, on lab workstations (up to two participants per computer), and the course includes a final editing challenge for real-world experience (and an optional independent lab session on March 25, the third Wednesday). Besides this technical training, discussion and screening of documentary editing history and theory surrounds each week's topics on editing basics, effects, color, and sound.

FEES

$375 Early Bird Registration (register/pay through February 10)
$400 Regular Registration (register/pay February 11-25)
$425 Late Registration (register/pay February 26 until class is full) – No discounts.

DOCS INSIDERS DISCOUNT AND ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDER COMPS
If you are a member of the Docs Insiders program at the Premium level, you can get a $25 discount on the registration fees for this workshop if you register by the Earlybird or Regular deadlines. If you are an All-Access Passholder, registration is required but is at no additional cost to you. To get the discount, you will enter a Promo Code when you get to the payment. If you missed our e-mail with the promo code, please reach us at contact AT docsinprogress DOT org to get it. To find out more about our Docs Insiders memberships, visit http://www.docsinprogress.org/docsinsiders​


HOW TO REGISTER?
Click the "Register Now" button towards the top of the page. Because of limited space, advanced registration is highly recommended.

NOTE ON PAYMENT
Full payment must be received to guarantee you a spot in the class. In order to get the discounted earlybird rate, full payment must be RECEIVED by the earlybird date. Otherwise the regular rate will be charged.

If you are paying by credit card, select the "Paypal" option (you can pay by credit card even if you don't have a Paypal account). Payment must be made at the same time you complete the online registration form.

If you are paying by check, you still need to register online, but select "Pay by Check or Wire". Make check payable to “Docs In Progress” and mail to:

Docs In Progress
8560 2nd Avenue, Suite 113
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(Write the name of the workshop in the notes section)

Your registration will be completed once your payment is received.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR​

Paul Moon​
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H. Paul Moon (zenviolence.com) is a filmmaker, professor and attorney whose works include short and feature-length documentaries, featured and awarded at nearly two hundred film festivals worldwide. He teaches editing at Docs In Progress and George Mason University, and manages a network of online communities at focuspulling.com and docofilm.com that keep pace with new camera technologies and documentary news. Works include "Sitka: A Piano Documentary" (sitkadoc.com) about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, and "Quartet for the End of Time" (quatuor.xyz) about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition. Moon's first feature, an acclaimed and award-winning documentary about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber (samuelbarberfilm.com), premiered on PBS, and he is currently finishing another documentary feature about Western poetry (westdocumentary.com). His ongoing centenary multimedia works on the poet Walt Whitman are presented at whitmanonfilm.com. Moon's latest film is an operatic adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (scroogeopera.com), awarded "Critic's Choice" by Opera News as a "thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed" with "first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling."

LOCATION

Docs In Progress
8560 Second Avenue, Suite 113
Silver Spring, MD 20910

*PLEASE NOTE: Our office is located inside the Alexander House building. Please be sure to enter at the Apple Avenue door using the buzzer on our door.

REFUND POLICY
If your circumstances change and you must withdraw from a class after registering, please be aware of our refund policy:

Withdrawal 30 or more calendar days before the first day of a program: 75% refund
Withdrawal 11-29 calendar days before the first day of a program: 50% refund
Withdrawal 10 or fewer calendar days before a program: No refund

WEATHER POLICY
In the event of seriously inclement weather, we will make a decision by 3 pm on whether to cancel that evening’s programs. (For Saturday classes, we will make the decision by 6 pm on Friday). If you have not received a notification from your instructor or the Educational Programs Manager, call our office at 301-789-2797 (we will have an outgoing message on voicemail).