Training

Clear, to-the-point, expert training on every aspect of the digital video creation process- from shooting aesthetics and lighting through editing, post-production visuals and audio, and delivery on the internet and DVD.

From our combined decades of professional video and film production experience, we’ve devised a unique and innovative body of production knowledge—“the DV Creators Method”—that enables us to achieve spectacular results from inexpensive camcorders, hardware and software.

We offer the world’s highest quality self-paced training products on DVD and through direct download.

We also offer free seminars and fee-based, hands-on workshops, mostly in Santa Monica, CA, but sometimes in other cities around the U.S. and occasionally other countries.

DVcreators.net workshops are generally the highest rated and best attended at industry trade shows. Our products have received the highest ratings possible in reviews. We are also chosen by the industry leaders- Apple, Artbeats, Canon, discreet, HP, Intel, Lowel, Tiffen and many others when they need the world’s top digital video experts for important trade shows, special tours and training events.

Our teaching philosophy is revolutionary- the exact opposite of our competition. Where they show tools, we show techniques- and the tools in context. Where they cover software features, we focus on making great movies. Where they cover theory, we cover reality.

Knowledge

We have what we feel is the world’s best start page for finding answers to your questions about digital video, as well as some of the best forums on digital video.

We also offer our DV Revolution Report, an e-newsletter with helpful info about digital moviemaking as well as company news.

Our free DV Revolution Report brings you valuable advice, tips and info once a month right to your email inbox. And our information resources, like our discussion forums and DV KnowledgeBase help you learn new tricks and techniques, troubleshoot your system, and keep up to date on the latest technologies and tools.

Software

In 2005 we released a free program for taking notes on movies that got such a massive positive response we realized we could put our expertise to work creating software products for digital video creators. We currently have two teleprompting software products and our amazing DV Kitchen video encoding and publishing software.

Gear

Several years ago, we spun off our reseller division into the very capable hands of Guy Cochran, one of the world’s top video experts. It has become a separate company, DVeStore.com, although we share a website and help each other out often!

A Brief History of DVcreators.net

In 1998 Josh Mellicker became one of the first three people in the world outside Texas Instruments Labs to capture video through Firewire. “Wow! This is going to change things!”

In February of 1999 DVcreators.net was chosen by Apple for the important mission of helping launch their professional video application division, starring Final Cut Pro, with nationwide free seminars, workshops, and training on CD. (Here is the very first free Final Cut Pro seminar tour, led by DVcreators.net CEO Josh Mellicker.)

In April of 1999, the world’s first Final Cut Pro training product, Final Cut Pro Powerstart, was released alongside Final Cut Pro 1.0 at NAB. This was to be the only FCP training product on the market for almost 9 months. Apple bought thousands to train their own staff on the program.

On Saturday, May 1, 1999, Josh hosted the world’s first Final Cut Pro users group meeting at Promax Systems in Irvine, CA.

Shortly thereafter, DVcreators.net launched the world’s first Final Cut Pro focused website, finalcutpro411.net. (It has since morphed into finalcutstudioplanet.com)

In the summer and fall of 1999, Josh was chosen by Apple to introduce Final Cut Pro to the U.S. with several U.S. free seminar tours and two interactive CD-ROMs. Josh also consulted with Apple on marketing materials and trained Apple development executives on presenting FCP.

In 2001, Apple once again entrusted DVcreators.net with a critically important mission- running Apple’s first-ever hands-on training lab on the floor of the NAB show in 2001. It was such a resounding success there was a stampede each morning when the show opened to get tickets for the day’s events.

Over the next several years, DVcreators.net and Apple worked together to present digital video training workshops in 60 cities in 5 countries.

In 2003, DVcreators.net put on the biggest digital video free seminar tour in history, with over 160 events across the U.S., sponsored by Canon, Intel, Pinnacle, discreet, Lowel, SmartSound, Artbeats and others.

In 2004, Josh Mellicker was chosen as the world’s top video production expert for the very prestigious Conference Chair of the NAB Production Conference.

Since then, we have been busy producing more self-paced training and software, and have a few major secret multi-year projects in the labs, so stay tuned!

Photos from over the years

Josh and Guy from DVcreators.net, the world’s top Final Cut Pro experts, are chosen to lead MacWorld’s Final Cut Pro Power Tools Conference.

DVcreators.net attracts huge crowds at DV Expo showing the secrets of turning a digital Canon camcorder into a film camera. Okay, not really a film camera. Just looking like film on the monitor. What are the secrets? Find out on DV Enlightenment!

DVcreators.net is chosen by the elite unit at Warner Bros. to consult on workflow for re-editing the TV show “Friends” in HD. Guy Cochran says “The fun part was seeing footage from top secret future Warner Bros. films and TV shows!”

Here, Josh Mellicker takes Zach Staenberg, Academy-Award-winning editor of the Matrix, Matrix Reloaded, and Matrix Revolutions, through the basics of Final Cut Pro.

DVcreators.net is the only training company to have been chosen by Apple to teach with the creator of Final Cut Pro, Randy Ubillios, at NAB, the world’s most important video industry trade show, in a special collaboration between Apple and DVcreators.net.