Becoming a successful underwater professional requires several distinct skill sets. These include SCUBA Diving competence, underwater imaging experience, and underwater equipment familiarity.  Gates STO Training focuses on the latter. Providing a curriculum of knowledge on the Setup, Test, and Operation (STO) of Gates’ professional underwater imaging systems.

The course goals are:

• Proficiency in the setup of Gates underwater cinema housings;
• Familiarity with on-location test tools and techniques for establishing housing seal integrity;
• The basic operation of Gates underwater housings;
• Camera specific considerations for the underwater medium: color, light, filtration, and more.
• Tips/tricks to assist the underwater cameraman / DP; and
• Practical understanding of underwater optics: port types, optical materials, selection and application

The Gates Underwater Products STO Training Certification sends the student forth as a Gates Ambassador.

STO students will possess a resume skill-set to help secure work on TV/Cinema/Natural History productions. These productions benefit by avoiding downtime due to untrained equipment operators.

The world’s only solution that combines professional video editing, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production all in one software tool! You can instantly move between editing, color, effects, and audio with a single click.

The world’s fastest, and most advanced professional non-linear video editing program

Video editing is about storytelling, creating a flow, and capturing the essence and emotion of a scene through the art of the cut. You need to cull through thousands of clips, find the perfect shots, and create a seamless edit that propels the story forward. Davinci Resolve is the world’s most advanced professional editing software. It is both familiar and uniquely innovative, giving you the precision tools and performance you need to craft the perfect story!

It is easy to see why Davinci Resolve is the standard for high-end post-production and finishing on more Hollywood feature films, television shows, and commercials than any other software.

During the underwater video course, you will take the official Davinci Resolve 3 day course and become end-user certified.

As RED Digital Cinema cameras increasingly dominate film-making, the demand for top-quality training is increasing.

Offering a fully immersive training environment, our one-day RED Digital Cinema training workshop provides the on-set and post-production skills needed to feel confident when shooting with any of RED’s professional cameras.

This one-day RED workshop covers:

• Benefits of high resolution
• Redcode Raw
• The range of DSMC2 brains
• Dynamic Range of Red’s various sensors
• Setting up assignable keys for a faster workflow
• RED Media
• OLPF (optical low-pass filters)
• Image Processing Pipeline IPP2
• Sensor Calibration
• Camera Menu
• Exposure Tools

This is real-world, hands on camera training, taught by an industry professional. You will have ample opportunity to shoot RED Digital Cinema cameras throughout the underwater video course.

By the end of the underwater video course, you will be confident in setting up any of the RED Cinema Cameras for underwater shooting environments.

You will use a variety of underwater housings during the underwater video course. Learning how to assemble and maintain your equipment is critical to success.

By the end of the underwater video course, you will become proficient in setting up, maintaining, and troubleshooting underwater housings.

Lens choice for underwater filming is often confusing and there is a bewildering number of options for every camera system.

Topics covered in the lens and optics training module include:

• The differences between photo and cinema lenses
• The virtual image
• Rectilinear and fisheye lenses
• Focal lengths… what do the numbers mean?
• Focusing underwater
• Filters for lenses
• Macro vs wide-angle

Lighting your underwater subjects has special considerations.

In this module, we will cover topics such as:

• Balancing the foreground and background colors
• Exposing the shot with underwater video lights
• When and how to white balance with video lights
• The importance of high CRI lights
• How to reduce backscatter in underwater videos

Using the free version of Davinci Resolve (available in both Mac & PC) you will learn how to assemble a compelling story.

Your videos will captivate your audience using a combination of:

• Transitions
• Titles
• Audio
• Speed ramping
• Stabilizing
• Reframing

Being an excellent storyteller through editing is the key to success.

“Colour conveys meaning. We use it to define our sensory experience, to describe objects, express emotion, and evoke a response. It is descriptive beyond what we see,”

Highly regarded in the industry, Peter is one of the most helpful and knowledgeable instructors to learn from.

Peter holds diplomas in video editing and color grading from AFTRS and has worked on many TV shows and films. These include teaching at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, filming the Uber Mini Submarine for Tourism Queensland, and even shooting underwater sequences for The Amazing Race TV show. Peter has even created content from remote Aboriginal communities for The Northern Territory Government.

When not teaching underwater video courses or underwater filming, Peter is usually teaching workshops on RED Digital Cinema Cameras and Davinci Resolve.

As a certified instructor for Gates Underwater Products, Peter will teach you best practices for setting up and maintaining Gates housings.

Being the only Master Trainer for Davinci Resolve in Australia, Peter will teach you to the highest of Blackmagic Design’s standard of video editing.