Progent's Apple Mac professionals can assist with the creative side of Mac technology by providing consulting help and training in graphics, sound, and video. Progent's consultants can offer expertise in a variety of Mac compatible applications such as Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Apple Logic, MOTU Digital Performer, Digidesign Pro Tools, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Adobe After Effects. Progent can also help you with specific jobs such as scanning or digitizing audio or video or configuring an audio/video post production facility.

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

• Photoshop CS3
  Photoshop CS3 is the de facto raster graphics editing standard and leader of the Adobe digital graphics line. Progent’s training professionals can assist you to understand PhotoShop’s creative toolset and benefit from PhotoShop’s various editing, processing, and file handling features to streamline your creative workflow. For additional information about the PhotoShop family, visit Photoshop CS3.

• Illustrator CS3
  Adobe Illustrator CS3 is the top professional utility for making vector graphics. Progent’s training consultants can help you to hone your Adobe Illustrator CS3 skills for important processes such as converting raster graphics to vector artwork and designing more fluidly. Progent’s Illustrator CS3 professionals can also assist you to learn efficient methods for producing commercial-quality designs for print, video, the Internet, and mobile devices. For additional information about the Adobe Illustrator family, visit Illustrator CS3.

• InDesign
  Tightly integrated with Adobe's other popular products, the InDesign page layout solution delivers faster production projects and a provides a more fluid design environment for creating commercial layouts with sophisticated graphics and type. For more information about the InDesign product line, check out Adobe InDesign CS3.

• QuarkXPress
  QuarkXPress is popular with magazines, news media, advertising firms, printers, in-house publishers, design firms, catalog designers, book publishers, and form designers. It is also used by corporations with publishing needs. Progent’s QuarkXPress training experts can show you how to use QuarkXPress as a productive solution for universally compatible publishing. To find out more about QuarkXPress, visit QuarkXPress.

• Logic Pro
  Logic Pro is the industry-leading product for music creation and sound production and the top choice of many prominent musicians and producers. Progent’s Logic Pro experts can show you how to use Apple Logic Pro's comprehensive library of tools for state-of-the-art music creation and versatile sound production. For additional information about Apple Logic Pro, visit Apple Logic Pro.

• MOTU Digital Performer
  MOTU Digital Performer is an integrated MIDI and audio sequencer created from scratch for Mac users and offering compatibility with internal Mac audio and MIDI. For studio production, movie scoring, live performance, and remixing, Digital Performer is the choice of professionals around the world. Progent’s MOTU Digital Performer training specialists can teach you how to use MOTU Digital Performer for complete audio and MIDI production. For more information about Digital Performer, visit Digital Performer.

• Digidesign Pro Tools HD
  Digidesign Pro Tools HD uses advanced engineering to provide high audio fidelity and economy for sound production tasks in music, film, broadcast, and new media applications. Offering dramatic Digital Signal Processing power, sweeping sample rate capability, new high-resolution sound connections and device options, ample track count and I/O bandwidth, and powerful routing versatility, Digidesign Pro Tools offers you complete control over your audio world. Progent’s Digidesign Pro Tools HD training professionals can show you how to turn Digidesign Pro Tools HD into a comprehensive audio platform. To find more information about Digidesign Pro Tools HD, visit Digidesign Pro Tools HD.

• Final Cut Pro
  Apple Final Cut Pro offers powerful and accurate editing capabilities that operate with virtually any format, from DV and HDV to uncompressed HD. With a real-time multistream effects design, multicam editing utilities, high-end color correction, and complete compatibility with the complete line of Apple professional video and audio applications, Final Cut Pro offers extensive creative options and technical control. Progent’s Final Cut Pro experts can teach you to configure and use Final Cut Pro for productive real-time editing for DV, SD, HD and film. For more information about Final Cut Pro 5, check out Final Cut Pro.

• Apple Motion 2
  Apple Motion, a part of Apple’s Final Cut Studio package, is the first motion graphics software with GPU accelerated 32-bit float rendering for professional film quality. 32-bit float rendering produces extremely fine color precision, avoids banding artifacts, and even improves quality when creating 8-bit formats. You get dramatic detail, accuracy, and breadth of color that automatically scales with the latest generations of GPUs. Apple Motion 2 features more than 500 filters, effects and particle presets, all engineered to take advantage of the high quality enabled by 16 and 32-bit float rendering. Progent’s Apple Motion 2 professionals can help you use Motion 2 for sophisticated animation jobs. For more information about Apple Motion 2, see Motion 2.

• Adobe After Effects 7.0
  After Effects 7.0 enables you to produce professional-looking motion graphics and visual effects with speed, detail, and variety. After Effects 7.0 permits you to take advantage of seamless integration with other Adobe software, versatile 2- and 3-D compositing, and hundreds of effects and Animation Presets to bring a sophisticated aspect to your film, video, DVD, and Macromedia Flash projects. Progent’s Adobe After Effects professionals offer training and consulting services to help you to enhance your skill in utilizing After Effects to create motion graphics and visual effects. For more about Adobe After Effects, see After Effects.

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