An average desktop or laptop computer can now offer more digital editing and special effect firepower than a whole studio full of specialized hardware did several years ago. Who can push the limits of the tools best, and show what can be done in the visual arts? The race is on.
One of the most resourceful methods for honing your skills and shaping up your portfolio or demo reel is to train at a media production school or school of the visual arts. Here are some of the skill areas you can develop there:
Audio Production/Radio/Video Production & Broadcasting
Out with tape. In with non-linear editing. Import video or audio directly from your video camera or microphone into a desktop or laptop. Then tap the power of today's digital editing software for video or audio. You can do the kind of titling, compositing, layering and color correction work that would take several specialists, unique hardware and tens of thousands of extra dollars not long ago.In audio production, today's laptop or home desktop, equipped with multitrack audio editing software, can do much of the demo and production recording that once sent musicians into a recording studio. That change has closed a number of studios. But it's opened up new worlds of creativity for more artists.
