Author Archives: jonny

About jonny

Jonny Elwyn - A freelance film editor, living and working in London.

Understanding RAW, LOG and Uncompressed

What’s the difference between RAW, LOG and Uncompressed? HDVideoPro.com has a useful post explaining the differences between shooting RAW, LOG and uncompressed video. Andy Shipsides explains the essentials differences to all three of these camera elements, using the ARRI Alexa … Continue reading

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Colour Grading Round Up

Which Colour Grading Software Should I use? Creative Cow Magazine has an lengthy round up of pretty much all the serious contenders for colour grading available in 2012, covering everything from Avid Symphony, Baselight’s plugin to Scratch, Smoke and Resolve. … Continue reading

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Todailes – Digital Dailies Ipad App

Todailies – Ipad App LightIron Digital have released a $9.99 ipad app called Todailies which when coupled with a free laptop app called LightIron Server lets you wirelessly stream dailies to any connected ipad (several simultaneously) and allow different crew members to … Continue reading

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Edit Suite Design

Designing your own edit suite Oliver Peters has a great blog post with some tips on designing your own edit suite covering everything from uninterruptable power supplies to acoustics and how to best lay out your equipment. Business Tips for … Continue reading

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Creating production dailies with Scratch Lab

If you’re interested in using Scratch Lab for providing production dailies check out this 30 minute video tutorial from Michael Forrest of Assimilate. The new metadata tools in Scratch Lab 6.1 are also demonstrated here…

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Useful resources for learning Avid

Switching to Avid? Scott Simmons from the Pro Video Coalition gave a seminar at NAB 2012 where he taught the essentials for editors migrating to Avid Media Composer. He followed up that seminar by posting a list of useful links for … Continue reading

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Editing in Stereoscopic 3D

Gordon Burkell has a fantastic article introducing some key concepts to be understood when editing in stereoscopic 3D over on masteringfilm.com. Cutting in 3D Burkell’s article covers the importance of shot choice, pacing and use of depth scripts when understanding … Continue reading

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Free lens flares

Gorilla Grain has morphed its way into flashbangfx.com and has a brand new range of 24 different camera lens flares to add to your footage. There are some free 720p Pro Res ‘Insta-flares’ available to download here.

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Premiere Pro CS6 vs Final Cut Pro

Premiere Pro CS6 first impressions… David Lawrence has a lengthy blog post over on Creative Cow with his first impressions of the new Adobe Premiere Pro in CS 6. As a long time FCP user he compares and contrasts the … Continue reading

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Editing Moonrise Kingdom

Editing Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom Andrew Weisblum has edited for Wes Anderson’s last two films (Fantastic Mr Fox and The Darjeeling Limited) as well as for Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Black Swan) and is back in the edit suite for … Continue reading

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