Training & Teaching
I have a long history of consulting and holding workshops about filmmaking and post-production, in English and German as well as for beginners and advanced alike.
Book an online or offline course for groups or 1-on-1.
I've been a lecturer at SAE Film Institute Berlin for years and also held special workshops online for its other branches in Germany, strongly focusing on student engagement and involvement.
I've also held beginner seminars for social media productions with smartphones and limited budgets, as well as personnel. This is most interesting for institutions, freelancers and startups.
Apart from that, I've consulted on specific topics, such as mastering an existing edit for TV, VOD, or cinema and improving certain aspects of it, like pacing, image or audio quality.
DCP Seminar Highlights
Workshops for Irish FIlm Institute and Goethe Institute in 2024 and 2026 about restoration of archival footage for cinema and DCP creation of movies without prior theatrical release—along with logo insertion and language versioning via subtitles.
3-day online in-depth course on cinema mastering, DCP and KDM for five-time Oscar® nominee, Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon in 2021 together with Carl Hetherington, developer of DCP-o-matic.
Proof & Reviews
❝ Sebastian was able to take us on a two-day journey through the art of filmmaking, exploring the technical aspects of settings and editing as well as the art of storytelling. His workshop was a valuable help in developing our projects further and was a perfect balance between expertise, creativity and fun. ❞
– Elisabeth Korinth
(Interactive Heritage, Museum for Islamic Art Berlin)
❝ A big thanks for your excellent skills in delivering huge amounts of info to our team. Everyone came away happy and with new insights. Sure enough, a week later, we put those new skills into use when we received a bad DCP and were able to fix it with perfect results for our sold-out show of three hundred. ❞
– Paul Markey
(Senior Manager at Irish Film Institute)
❝ A strongly recommended masterclass imparting important knowledge about Digital Cinema Mastering which cannot be found anywhere else. DCP creation has taken on an important role today. Sebastian Leitner shares many years of experience and his know-how. A step-by-step guide to a professional DCP. ❞
– Ehsan Haghighat
(Head Instructor Film at SAE Berlin)
❝ Der Unterricht ist vom Inhalt und Umfang her der, den wir uns schon früher in anderen Kursen gewünscht hätten. So sollte eine Vorlesung sein! Es ist mitnichten selbstverständlich, technische Daten unterhaltsam als auch zugleich inhaltlich dicht vermittelt zu bekommen. ❞
– Kira, SAE Studentin
(Abschlussklasse DE 'Finishing & Mastering')