The 10 Most Popular LinkedIn Learning Courses of 2024
Here are the most popular LinkedIn Learning courses for IATSE workers in 2024. Whether you're curious about what resonates with your peers or looking for inspiration to follow through on your New Year's resolutions, we encourage you to dive in and learn something new.
Excel Essential Training (Microsoft 365)
In this course, you can get up to speed on all things Microsoft Excel. Follow along with Dennis Taylor, an Excel expert, as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, format the appearance of your spreadsheet, build charts and PivotTables, use new Microsoft Copilot integrations, and more.Premiere Pro Essential Training (2022–2024)
For transforming raw footage into impactful stories, filmmakers and editors look to Adobe Premiere Pro, the industry-leading application. This course helps beginners unlock the potential of the latest edition. Instructor and filmmaker Ashley Kennedy teaches all the essentials while building a short promo video from start to finish. Ashley shows you how to import and organize your media so you can start your project off right. She covers how to edit video and audio, correct color, add titles and effects, and more. Her project-based approach lends context to each of the tools, allowing you to experience both the technical and creative sides of the editing process.Learning Vectorworks
Built upon a long history of powerful CAD and BIM development, Vectorworks offers a feature set that helps users design and create projects using an efficient workflow. In this course, get familiar with the core features of this powerful software including drafting and design tools, basic 3D modeling, how to use the resource manager, and more. Henry Santos walks through the user interface and shows how the workspace is organized. By taking you through a small project—a table design—he provides a hands-on approach to learning this software package.DaVinci Resolve Fundamentals
Join instructor and professional colorist Patrick Inhofer in this course designed to get you up to speed in as little time as possible. This course includes a 60-second commercial for you to work with so you can get comfortable with the layout and workflow of this digital video media creation tool as you follow along. Patrick starts with the process of importing your media, using both manual and automated tools, before showing how to start building a rough cut in Resolve. He then explains how to refine your rough cut using trim tools and adding titles and transitions, details the important aspects of color correction, and shows how to organize and mix sound clips. Patrick finishes the course covering the export process, showing how to use preset templates as well as how to create your own reusable custom templates.Photoshop 2024 Essential Training
In this course, Julieanne Kost filters out the complexity of Photoshop, so that you’ll be able to quickly create the images you want. Discover how to navigate and customize the tools that you’ll use most often and learn core digital image essentials including color space, bit depth, and image size. Understand how to best crop, straighten, and adjust canvas size. Dive into layers, selections, and masking, and find out how to edit and retouch images. Explore blend mode, smart objects, generative fill, and shape layers. Study the pen tool, type essentials, libraries, and artboards, and learn to animate, export, and share your images. This course introduces core tools to get you up to speed with the important features and concepts that all Photoshop users need to know.After Effects CC 2023 Essential Training
Adobe After Effects enables you to create amazing visual effects for film, TV, video, and the web. In this course, motion designer Alan Demafiles guides you through the essentials of using After Effects. Learn how to use layers and shapes with transformation levels, masks, nesting, collapse transformations, and much more. Explore animation in After Effects with keyframe interpolations, the graph editor, time remapping, expressions, and so on. Go over the tools and techniques you need to create transparency for compositing and then find out how to work with a wide variety of effects. Learn about creating and rendering basic 3D effects, then dive into the intricacies of 3D geometry, including renderers, features, Cinema 4D, and more. Discover ways to work with trackers, then finish up by learning to render your creation using the Render Queue or Media Encoder.Project Management Foundations
Project management is a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and make projects more successful. Project management can be used to guide small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives. In this course, Bonnie Biafore explains the fundamentals of project management, from establishing project goals and objectives and building a project plan to managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing the project. Along the way, she provides tips for communicating, holding meetings, keeping a project on track, and gaining customer acceptance.Blender 4.0 Essential Training
Blender is a powerful open-source solution for 2D and 3D modeling, animation, compositing, and post-production. In this course, get a thorough overview of the feature set in Blender 4.0 and beyond, as well as practical production techniques that combine know-how with a healthy dose of how-to. Instructor David Andrade dives into specific techniques, such as scene layout and modeling, sculpting, texturing and shading, 2D and 3D animation, character rigging (also known as armatures), visual effects and simulations, rendering, and geometry nodes. Plus, get performance-boosting tricks to render your creations even faster. Each lesson helps you gain the control and skill you need to create stunning, professional artwork for multiple platforms: games, movies, and animation.Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1
Get up and running with Media Composer, the feature-rich video editing software from Avid. In this project-based course, the first installment in a two-part series, learn how to approach each aspect of the editing process with Media Composer 2020. After familiarizing you with the software's interface, Maxim Jago—an Avid Certified Instructor with 20 years of experience—demonstrates how to create a brand-new project and import media. He then helps you get comfortable with each stage of the editing workflow. Learn how to prepare the timeline for editing, add audio and effects, create titles, manage media, export a video sequence, and much more.Unreal Engine 5 Essential Training
Unreal Engine is a powerful real-time 3D engine with a range of applications, including game development, architectural visualizations, and filmmaking. In this course, animator and artist George Maestri provides insights and practical tips for using this industry standard platform. Learn about the engine's real-time rendering features, interactivity, and world-building. Plus, explore ways to optimize your projects for maximum performance and scalability.
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