
Training
I have been training for over 20 years - always alongside film/TV editing.
My training is ever-informed by my real world experience perfectly demonstrated by recent work on Think Of England,
I spent a long period training Final Cut Pro for Apple during its transformative period in the 00's.
This took me from the BBC to Film City in India and to the World Cup in Johannesburg.
Main focus now is Premiere Pro, which I have been training directly for Adobe since 2020, most recently at their HQ in London.
These classes focussed on film and longform TV and were perfectly augmented by my editing of indie-feature "Think Of England" (pic)
which I am now turning into an end-to-end feature film editing class.
Think Of England is a wartime satire spanning multiple genres and styles, with a fantastic up-and-coming young cast.
It was also the first UK feature to use Premiere Productions as the keystone to its workflow and it performed superbly.
My hands-on experience on the film from dailies all the way to picture lock, created a perfect training opportunity,
allowing delegates to learn from cutting-edge, real world techniques in Premiere Pro.
I am now expanding upon this synergy to create more training using this same model.
Some testimonials:
“Alex did a great job and was very kind to share his workflows and experience with us. Very pleasant to learn from him.”
“Alex the trainer is an editor and communicated ideas easily and clearly.”
“Alex Snelling is a perfect trainer. Plenty of real world experience of all editing products, plus an expert in Premiere.”
“Alex and the rest of the team were incredibly patient and made sure we got as much as we could get under our belts into our 2 days.”
Training History
Alex's first training gig was in Tokyo in 1998 for two months to teach Quantel Henry/Editbox. He became an Apple Certified Trainer for FCP in 2004 and after six months edit training at BBC White City in 2005, he was invited by Apple to become an industry mentor for Final Cut Pro and since that time has travelled the world qualifying Apple Certified Trainers in UK, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Czech Rep, Turkey, India and South Korea; toured Scandinavia; visited Russia; supported the edit workflow for the FIFA World Cup 2010 and authored several technical papers and reports based around FCP workflow. In 2013, Alex wrote Final Cut Pro X In A Shared Environment which was referenced widely across the FCP community and formed the basis for many workflows and was rewritten in 2020 as Alex's parting gesture to Apple..
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