Last June I had the opportunity to attend a four hour workshop with Vincent Laforet in NY at the PDN conference and it was loaded with information about DSLR techniques for multimedia and filmmaking (check the archives for a detailed report). This week, no matter where you are, you can get in on Laforet’s wealth of inspiration and information from the comfort of your own home. Check it out:

2 Exciting (and free!) online Vincent Laforet events:

I. Laforet with Chase Jarvis Live this Wednesday March 1st, 2011

The details:

In this 90 minute show, we’ll talk shop, cut thru all the fluff, cut past Reverie and all the hubub to the meat of the things that matter. We’ll also be taking your questions LIVE via my @chasejarvis twitter handle, hashtag#cjLIVE.

It’s free. It’s live. Just point your web browser tohttp://www.chasejarvis.com/live on Wednesday.

Who: You, Me, Vince Laforet + a worldwide gathering of photographers and filmmakers
What: Get to know the real Vince Laforet and his career + answer your questions LIVE
When: this coming Wednesday, March 2nd at 10:00am Seattle time (1pm NYC or GMT -8)
Where: just visit http://www.chasejarvis.com/live
Want to get Vince to answer YOUR questions?

II. A 72 hour workshop with Laforet online, hosted by CreativeLive

From Laforet’s blog (http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/ See the blog for a full schedule)

This coming Friday through Sunday promises to be a very exciting 72 hours!  As most of you who read the blog know – we will be shooting and broadcasting live on web the second part of our creativeLIVE HDDLSLR workshop titled “HDDSLR – Moving From Still to Video with Vincent Laforet”

The workshop will be broadcast free during that 72 hour period and go on sale thereafter.

We will also be giving away an insane amount of gear during the workshop – to be eligible to win it – all you need to do is to follow @creativelive and @vincentlaforet on twitter – that’s it!  We’ll send everyone more details as we get ready to give stuff away.

For those of you who took part in the first workshop a little under a year ago – here’s how this workshop will differ from that one.   The first workshop focused heavily on gear and theory.  We did a little bit of shooting and a quick edit.  This workshop will flip that around – we’ll focus a bit on some new gear, and on some other important things you need to know prior to any shoot.  But most of our time will be spent actually shooting.  We’ll discuss a little theory of course – but ON SET and DURING a shoot.  We will also devote a good chunk of the first day to workflow – both with Apple’s Final Cut Studio and Adobe’s CS5 suite, from ingest to output – and even backup – something a lot of this blog’s readers have been clamoring for for awhile!