Orion: Services: Training, Support, Leadership, Presentations, Resources, Sales

Macintosh Essentials: Upgrades, Training, Trouble Shooting
Application Support: Daylite; Customer Relationship Management, Apple; Final Cut Pro, Adobe
Network Support: Design, Installation, Implementation:
Business Solutions: CRM, Multi-Platform Integration, Remote Access
Education Solutions: K-12, Advanced Studies, Private and Public Institutions. Graphic Labs, Music Labs

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	Normal Hours 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EST) Lunch 12:00 -1:00 Incident Based Support During Normal Working Hours: $29 per Incident Hourly: $150 Multi-Day package: Negotiated Project Based: Negotiated		Macintosh Essential Training Daylite Training Final Cut Studio Training Other General Information

You might be new to the Mac or simply new to the OS or a new application. Orion training is customized for each user or company, we leverage your data to ensure you get what you need when you need it. We come to you and training takes place in your office with your data maximizing your time and helping you understand and use information in ways you'll remember, being functional. The average Windows user uses 8 tools whereas the average Mac user uses 22 tools. There is a lot of functionality built into these new appliances and the best way to take advantage of it is to be trained by someone that has been working with the Apple Macintosh since 1986.
iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, iChat, iCal, Address Book, Garageband, and Safari are all programs that come with the Mac and its OS. Get up to speed and enjoy your new digital hub. And when the training is over you will have the security of having a name and a face to call for support.

Training Includes:
Introduction to the Apple Macintosh and its Unix-based operating system OS X
Folders and Windows: Icons, Lists, Columns
Organizing: Naming, Icons, Moving, Aliases, Color Labels
Dock, Desktop and Toolbar: Setting up the Dock, Designing Your Desktop
Documents, Programs and Dashboard: Opening Programs, Exposé, Keyboard Control, Dialog Boxes, Installing Programs
Exchanging data between other Macs and Windows PCs
Included Applications: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, iChat, iCal, Address Book and all other 25 of them.
Mac OS X Technology: Accounts, Firewalls and Security, Networking
Graphics, Fonts, Printing, Faxing: Printer Sharing, PDF FIles, Fonts and Font Book, Graphics, Screen-Capture
Sound, Movies, Speech and Handwriting: Playing Sounds, Recording Sounds, Movies, Speech Recognition, VoiceOver
Terminal: Navigating Unix, Utilities
Mac Online: Internet Setup: Dial-up, Broadband Connections, Sharing, Mail and Address Book, Safari, iChat
Mail and Address Book: Checking Mail, Writing Messages, Reading Mail, Address Book and Contacts

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We know you're eager to get started using the #1 time saving productivity manager for the Mac. Orion training is customized for each user or company, we leverage your data to ensure you get what you need when you need it. We come to you and training takes place in your office with your data maximizing your time and helping you understand and use information in ways you'll remember, being functional. "You'll need to become a bit of a guru to get the most out of Daylite because it has so many customizable options." We're not only trainers we're users and at the end of the day you'll be less frustrated and more productive. When we leave your office, you still have access to a knowledge base familiar and experienced with your data and work-flow.

Training Includes:
Understanding the User Interface
Understanding Categories and Keywords
Understanding Print Layouts and Report Layouts

Developing Information Strategies
Developing Work-Flow Parameters
Developing Naming Conventions

Working with a Database
Working with Contacts and Organizations
Working with Links and Daylite Objects
Working with Lists and Smart Lists
Working with Data Searches and Sorting
Working with Tasks and Timeblocks
Working with Notes
Working with Appointments and Calendars
Working with Notifications
Working with Opportunities and Estimates
Working with Projects
Working With Groups

Working with Opportunity and Project Pipelines
Working with Correspondence: Logging, Telephone, Templates, Printing Letters, Envelopes, Labels, Email
Working with File References

Managing Daylite Preferences: Activity Sets, Time & Billing, Classifications, Keywords, Forms & Extra Fields
Managing Users and Teams
Managing Multiple Users: Administration, Users, Privileges, Security

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Orion iIT offers a full range of training, from Apple Final Cut Studio to 3rd party software and hardware solutions. Orion training is customized for each user or company, we leverage your data to ensure you get what you need when you need it. We come to you and training takes place in your office with your data maximizing your time and helping you understand and use information in ways you'll remember, being functional. Our on-site training is tailored to jump-start the production process in broadcast television and production environments. Individual, group and corporate training is customized for professionals motivated to learn a new skill or build on an existing one. All training is split between lecture and hands-on exercise so you'll be editing on your own system from the start.

Training Includes:
Level 1: Dynamic and Comprehensive Introduction
Working With The Interface: Projects, Interface, Workflow, Bins, Timeline & Canvas
Marking and Editing: Playing Clips in the Viewer, Marking Clips, Audio Clips, Overwrite Edits, Saving & Quitting
Drag and Drop Editing
Marking in the Timeline
Trimming Edit Points: Rippling, Razor Blade
Adjusting Edit Points: Rolling, Slipping, Trimming
Browser Basics and Project Customization: Master Clips, Elements, Interface, Shortcuts, Properties
Capturing Footage: Previewing, Logging, Capturing Format Specific
Applying Transitions: Video Transitions, Audio Transitions, Parameters, Rendering
Mixing Audio Tracks: Editing in Timeline, Changing Audio Over Time, Audio Mixer, Recording a Narration Track
Changing Motion Properties: Clip Speed, Freeze-Frame, Motion Parameters, Attributes, Variable Speed Change
Applying Filters: Video Filters, FIlter Parameters, Corrective Filters, Audio Filters, Compositing, Keyframes and Animation
Multicam Editing: Organizing Clips, Synchronizing Camera Angles, Creating Multiclips, Timecode, Switching
Titles and Graphics: Text Generators, Color Mattes, Motion Effects, Layered Photoshop Files
Finishing and Outputting: Media, Tape, Managing Media

Level 2: 3RD Party Resources
Flip4Mac: Episode, WMV and MFX in the Workflow
Digital Juice: Animations, Music and Sound Effects, Stock Footage in the Editing Process
Noise Industries: GPU-accelerated visual effects plug-ins based on FxPlug in the Creative Process
Adobe: Professional Creative Tools in Video, Print and Web Production
Hardware: Capture Cards, Storage Devices, Interfaces, Mixers, Microphones

Level 3: Advanced Editing
Dramatic Editing: Editing Dialogue, Refining Cuts
Complex Dialogue: Complex Scenes
Editing Action: Telling a Story, Cutting and Action Scene
Chase and Fights: Crafting and Creating
Editing Comedy: Laughs, Cutting Comic Dialogue, Cutting Comic Action
Editing Documentaries: Cutting Interviews, Adding B-Roll
Documenting an Event: Constructing a Montage, Incorporating Narration
Music Video: Technique and Approach
Mulitcamera Editing: Footage, Angles, Multiclips
Sound Editing: Dialogue, Ambiances, Sound Effects, Designing Sound, Editing Music
Project Management: Advanced Clip Management, Timecode, 24P, 16:9, 4:3, PAL
Transcoding and Outputting Video: DVD, HD DVD, Web, Audio, QuickTime, Video Formats

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With the rate at which technology changes over the life cycle of a product, it is best when considering additional resources to have an experienced partner on your side. Most of our customers know their industry very well and, like them, we know our industry very well, and it is with 20 years of insight we help design and implement a system that will provide for the current needs and be scalable for the future. There is so much to consider in system design and purpose, and when dedicated people come together with a common goal, the success rate of a newly adopted technology is inspiring.

Demonstration:

One very good reason to have a professional demonstration of an application or product is to see how that product will function once the new user is up-to-speed. Many facilities will not have the time to allocate to a new platform, or application, and will fall back on the current ways of doing things, even though they are well aware of the features and benefits of the new product. A demonstration address their specific concerns, but at the same time provides a realistic assessment of how that product will function in their work-flow.

Training:

There are plenty of reasons to get more training. Most application specialists use only the tools they have learned get the job at hand done. Very few learn different work-flow processes, and this leads to lowered production, restlessness and greater turnover.
Many professionals and small business owners haven't the time to leave the business for a few day to take advantage of the learning opportunities that are available in their field.

Addressing the Needs of the Whole Learner:

Realism is the name of the game for Orion's center for learning and media services. Recognizing the need for multi-faceted training in the mid-80s, Orion integrated Information Technology has provided on-site training to meet the immediate needs that face many production specialists; though a multiple day class is probably best taken off-site because it lessens the chance for distraction. In those cases where the client's data is the best case scenario, it benefits the client to have the trainer come to their facility because not only will they receive the training needed but the trainer/consultant may bring a refreshing view to the work-flow procedure.
Corporate learning in organizations are looking for deep, long-term consultative partnerships with education/training providers. Training staff responsible for development within these companies, usually do not have a formal selection process to identify potential providers. We help each organization develop their base-line competency level and then educate people to get them to that line.
At the end of the day, developing a relationship with a qualified and helpful trainer gives the student and facility a contact to call personally when in need of information or expertise outside their "zone", someone to bounce ideas off of and actually get credible feedback.

Best practices:

Interested in developing a relationship with a realistic learning environment? Here are some of Orion's tips for doing it right:

Be an industry partner. Orion willingly opens its arms to outsiders—including customers, competitors, industry associations, universities and others—and openly shares its best practices and ideas for benchmarking, educational and public relations purposes. "We want to be open with our competitors and serve as an industry partner," Haynor says. "Many of our customers, for example, don't understand the skills, knowledge and competencies our production and support people need to posses. By opening up the brain trust to industry as well as to the general public, however, people are starting to understand how technically competent our people have to be. That, in turn, has helped our industry."

Sales:

Orion has never been known as a "box mover"; in our world, it's not about quantity but rather quality. Informative pre-sales conversations and demonstrative after-sales support are a signature of 20 years of excellence. A product may be found to be less expensive on the front end, but that may account for only 1/3 the actual cost of implementation. Having someone answer your telephone call and lead you through a critical situation, "priceless".

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