SGO Mistika Course. Introduction and basics November 2013

After the success of the last edition of the SGO Mistika basic course, we are opening a new edition.

Few in the audiovisual industry today are unaware that one of the world’s best post-production software is of Spanish origin. Movies like “The Hobbit”, “Tintin”, “The Amazing Spiderman” or “Prometheus” are just some of the titles in which Mistika, the software of the company SGO, has participated. Designed for editing, visual compositing, color grading and stereoscopy, Mistika is one of the most complete and powerful finishing solutions on the market today.

In this SGO Mistika course the basics of the system will be studied: its file management, interface, project configuration and work philosophy. It will also explain the basic tools of each of the system’s modules and their integration: image editing, visual compositing, color correction and 3D stereoscopy. At the end of the course the student will have a solid base that will allow him to understand and start using the tool in a professional way.

TEACHER: Ricardo Posada

Before focusing his career in color correction, Ricardo Posada worked professionally as a 3D animator, digital compositor with Mistika and visual effects supervisor in productions for major advertising brands, making him an unusually complete professional with a wide scope in the post-production field and with an accumulated experience of 15 years of work. He is a senior operator of the SGO Mistika system, and for the last ten years, director of the audiovisual services company Quimera.

DURATION: 20 hours

PRICE: 580€ (500€ booking before October 4th). You can get up to 20% discount if you sign up for several courses. Discounts are not cumulative.

WHEN: From November 4th to 8th. Afternoons from 16 to 20h (may vary slightly).

WHERE: CES Audiovisual Campus. You have all the information about how to get there here. If you need any kind of information you can contact 709 MR by email or telephone (668840783).

COURSE CODE: MKBS96-041113

EQUIPMENT USED: SGO Mistika 7 on HP Professional Stations (one per student)

DEGREE: At the end of the course the student will receive the official SGO “Mistika User” certificate and a temporary license (up to one year) of Mistika Insight (runs on Windows 7 32b). Both the qualification and the license are granted by SGO, being at the discretion of SGO and the teacher if the student has finished the course with the necessary level (a final test will be done).

AIMED AT: Editors, post-producers, colorists, visual compositors, post-production directors, stereographers, etc.

PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE: Experience in any of the disciplines in which the Mistika tool is used: editing, visual effects creation, color correction or 3D stereoscopy.

CONTENTS:

General introduction to Mistika

• Description of hardware equipment and its operational capabilities.
• Description, configuration and customization of Mistika through Mistika Config, depending on the type of project or project phase.
• Project backup and restore tool
• Image capture and workflows.
• Input/output formats. Description of acquisition forms depending on the origin of the images.
• Native formats in Mistika and the specific treatment for formats that need debayerization. Particular case for Red One and Epic.
• Description of workflows depending on the origin of the images and their morphology.

Interface

• Introduction to the user interface.
• Tabs Menus. Timeline. Visual Editor
• The use of keyboard shortcuts.
• Gesture commands with mouse or digitizing tablet
• The “shelf” bar for quick access to the most used commands on the timeline.
• Menu of specific applications in the Visual Editor. Shape editor. Tracking. Paint. Color Picker, etc.
• Basic editing and shaping tools
• Tab Edit. Description of the editing tools and use of the image and sound clips in the timeline.
• Editing support tools. Play marks, edit marks, anchors, etc.
• conformed from magnetoscope.
• Conformed from clips from professional digital cameras.
• Description of virtual conforming, the lnk, clp, and rnd meta data models, how and when to use them.

Effects compositing in Mistika

• Mistika’s composition philosophy.
• The Comp3D effect. Use of layers inside comp3D.
• Different ways of working with masks.
• Effects based on motion estimation.

Workflow design

• Description of Mistika workflows depending on the type of project, project format and resolution, and operating environment. Relationship with other systems. Complete DI flow.

4K and 3D color correction

• Description of the color tools.
• Primaries. Primaries in Bands. Fixed Vectors. Free Vectors (Secondary).
• Use of LUTS
• use of Pan & Scan. Framing.
• Use of the panels for Color.
• Different ways to use, store and retrieve color notes.
• Color in 2D and 3D projects.

Stereoscopy

• Stereoscopy basics
• The Stereo3D tool.
• Geometry Adjustments
• Basic color adjustments between the eyes.
• Advanced geometry settings based on optical flow.
• Advanced Color Adjustments based on optical Flow
• Tool for smooth transitions between planes.

For any information you can send an e-mail to info@709mediaroom.com