Join UNM Continuing Education and the New Mexico Post Alliance for engaging workshops. Who should attend? Everyone interested in understanding digital acquisition, visual effects and compositing, postproduction, sound recording, sound editing, video editing and postproduction workflows.

1. Postproduction Workshop Series 2016
The New Mexico Post Alliance is offering a Postproduction Workshop Series, 2016 in
cooperation with UNM Continuing Education. The workshops will cover a variety of topics
including video and sound editing, post workflows, color correction, tips and tricks of on-
set sound mixing, visual effects, animation, motion graphics, plus more… The series will be
offered once per month during 2016, Thursday evenings, or Saturday afternoons in room
219 at the University of New Mexico Continuing Education, South building, University and
Indian School. nmpost.org/2016workshops
Who should attend: Everyone interested in understanding digital acquisition, visual
effects and compositing, postproduction, sound recording, sound editing, video editing
and postproduction workflows.
Register at Eventbrite, nmpapostworkshops2016.eventbrite.com
2016 Workshop Schedule:
#1 Thursday, January 14th, 6 to 8 pm with Chris Paul (Completed, Thanks Chris!)
#2 Saturday, February 13th, 1 to 3 pm with Darryl L. Frank, D3 Productions.
“Sound from Set to Post” (Completed, Thanks Darryl!)
#3 Thursday. March 10th, 6 to 8 pm with Brad Stoddard, Stoddard Communications
Editorial Workflows - “Digital Camera to Digital Deliverables” (details on back page)
#4 (NOTE NEW DATE) Saturday. April 16th, 1 to 3 pm with Steve Milner,
Postproduction Professional, “Post Production Careers: Being on the Cutting
Edge of Change”
#5 Thursday, May 19th, 6 to 8 pm with Aaron Estrada, VFX Artist & Compositor
Visual Effects Composting
#6 Saturday June 18th, 1 to 3 pm with Sherwin Lau, Professor, NMSU
Editing Audio in Postproduction
#7 Thursday, July 14th, 6 to 8 pm TBD
#8 Saturday, August 13th, 1 to 3 pm TBD
Workshops require a $30 fee. NMPA members qualify for a 20% discount if three
workshops are purchased at time of registering. Presenter schedule subject to change.

2. Workshop Details
Workshop #3
Thursday. March 10th, 6 to 8 pm “Editorial Workflows - Digital Camera
to Digital Deliverables” with Brad Stoddard of Stoddard
Communications. Brad will cover the video postproduction process
(workflow), demonstrating non-linear editing tools Final Cut Pro X,
Premiere Pro, and Davinci Resolve. Demonstration and discussion will
include importing, media management, metadata, exporting, file
formats, and quality checking deliverables. Q&A.
Bio: Brad Stoddard is an award winning filmmaker, writer and cinematographer. His
credits include a broad range of feature film, television, documentary projects and
educational media. Brad is owner of Stoddard Communications, a New Mexico
production/postproduction company and is currently President of the New Mexico Post
Alliance. He is experienced in project development, production, postproduction and
finishing and maintains excellent relationships with editors, assistants, sound and visual
effects artists as a postproduction supervisor. He is a Certified Trainer for Final Cut Pro
X and is has extensive workflow design experience in digital acquisition and editorial
systems. His film credits include: Picture Editor, A Lonely Place for Dying, Almost
Americans; Producer/Director, CONNECT PBS TV Series. See his IMDB
www.imdb.com/name/nm2268406
Workshop #4
Saturday. April 16th, 1 to 3 pm “Post Production Careers: Being on
the Cutting Edge of Change” with Steve Milner. Steve will discuss
what it is like working in postproduction, the business as a trade and
earning your skills on the job. Steve’s discussion will include topics
such as always changing post careers, advancement by changing jobs
and a group discussion on “How will we bring job opportunities to New
Mexico by establishing and growing a thriving post industry.” Steve
believes that the postproduction business boils down to billing, and
that we can create positions and opportunities to establish NM as new
hot bed of postproduction.
Bio: Steven Milner has been a technician in post production for over twenty years at
some of the industry’s top houses in Los Angeles and New York. His range of
experience includes technical evaluation, editing, telecine mastering and color grading,
into addition to lighting design with 3-D software. He has worked closely with world-
renown color correction artists at Company 3 in New York and gained exposure to an
elite group of clients in the commercial market. Having returned to his native New
Mexico, Steven hopes to bring the same level of work to our state.