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Progent's Apple Mac experts can support the artistic side of Macintosh environments by offering consulting and teaching in graphics, audio, and video. Progent's Mac professionals can provide expertise in a range of Apple Mac compatible programs including Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and After Effects. Progent can also help you with special projects such as capturing or digitizing audio or video or setting up an audio/video post production studio.

Progent's consulting and training services for Mac graphics, sound, and video products include:

• Photoshop CS5
  Adobe PhotoShop CS5 is the recognized raster graphics editing standard and head of the Photoshop digital graphics family. Progent’s teaching experts can help you to understand PhotoShop’s design tools and take advantage of PhotoShop’s efficient editing, scripting, and file management capabilities to empower your creative workflow.

• Illustrator
  Illustrator is the top professional tool for creating vector images. Progent’s education consultants can help you to enhance your Adobe Illustrator CS5 skills for important processes such as transforming bitmaps to vector graphics and designing more intuitively. Progent’s Illustrator consultants can also assist you to master time-saving methods for creating professional-quality graphics for paper, video, the Internet, and mobile devices.

• InDesign CS5
  Closely integrated with Adobe's other popular applications, the InDesign publishing product delivers faster production projects and a offers a more intuitive creative environment for producing commercial publications with advanced imaging and type.

• QuarkXPress
  QuarkXPress is popular with magazines, news media, advertising firms, printers, in-house publishers, design firms, catalog houses, book publishers, and form designers. QuarkXPress is also used by corporations with publishing requirements. Progent’s QuarkXPress training experts can show you how to use QuarkXPress as a productive tool for media-independent publishing.

• Apple Logic Pro
  Apple Logic Pro is the industry-leading application for music development and audio production and the first choice of numerous prominent musicians and producers. Progent’s Apple Logic Pro professionals can show you how to employ Apple Logic Pro 9’s comprehensive library of utilities for advanced music creation and versatile audio production.

• Digital Performer
  MOTU Digital Performer is an integrated MIDI and audio sequencer designed from the ground up for Macintosh users and featuring compatibility with internal Apple Mac sound and MIDI. For studio production, movie scoring, live performance, and remixing, Digital Performer is preferred by professionals around the world. Progent’s MOTU Digital Performer training experts can show you how to utilize MOTU Digital Performer for full sound and MIDI production.

• Digidesign Pro Tools HD
  Digidesign Pro Tools incorporates advanced engineering to deliver superior sonic fidelity and economy for audio production tasks in music, cinema, broadcast, and new media applications. Featuring significant Digital Signal Processing power, sweeping sample rate support, the latest high-resolution audio interfaces and device options, ample track count and I/O bandwidth, and extensive routing versatility, Digidesign Pro Tools HD gives you total mastery over your audio environment. Progent’s Digidesign Pro Tools HD consulting professionals can teach you to make Digidesign Pro Tools into a complete audio solution.

• Final Cut Pro 6
  Apple Final Cut Pro delivers versatile and accurate editing capabilities that work with virtually any format, from DV and native HDV to fully uncompressed HD. With a high-performance multistream effects architecture, multicam editing tools, advanced color correction, and complete integration with the complete line of Apple professional video and audio applications, Final Cut Pro 6 gives you a full set of creative functions and detailed control. Progent’s Apple Final Cut Pro experts can help you configure and run Final Cut Pro for productive real-time editing for DV, SD, HD and film.

• Apple Motion 2
  Apple Motion 5, a component of Apple’s Final Cut Studio package, has a 64-bit architecture for creating motion graphics for titles, transitions, and effects. You get great detail, accuracy, and range of color that automatically scales with new generations of GPUs. Motion 5 features a wealth of filters, effects and particle presets and includes intelligent templates and parameter rigs to speed up production. Progent’s Motion 2 specialists can help you use Apple Motion 2 for advanced animation jobs.

• Adobe After Effects
  Adobe After Effects CS5 software allows you to produce professional-looking motion graphics and visual effects with speed, precision, and variety. After Effects permits you to take advantage of seamless compatibility with other Adobe software, versatile 2D and 3D compositing, and 100's of effects and Animation Presets to give a sophisticated aspect to your film, video, DVD, and Macromedia Flash projects. Progent’s After Effects professionals can provide education and support services to assist you to enhance your skill in using Adobe After Effects CS5 to create motion graphics and visual effects.

If you need an Apple Mac application specialist, contact Progent at 800-993-9400 or send email to apple-help@progent.com.