Category Archives: Arri Alexa

How To Be A DIT – Part 4

Posted on April 5, 2013 by jonny

Useful Resources for DIT’s If you are interested in becoming a working DIT or just understanding a bit more about what they actually do, then this 4th round up of useful links and resources should help you in that venture. … Continue reading →

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Matching Film Stocks with Film Convert

Posted on March 29, 2013 by jonny

Matching Film Stocks with Film Convert If you’re looking for a simple way to match your digital footage to what you might get out of a film camera then Film Convert is a New Zealand based company which believes its … Continue reading →

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Skyfall’s Post Production Workflow

Posted on November 21, 2012 by jonny

Inside Skyfall’s post production process The latest instalment of the Bond franchise does not disappoint (so go see it if you still can!) and as ever Roger Deakin’s cinematography does nothing but delight. Here is a quick round up of some of … Continue reading →

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Editing Homeland

Posted on October 20, 2012 by jonny

Cutting Episodic TV on Avid Studio Daily has a fantastic interview with Jordan Goldman on his creative process for editing the acclaimed episodic TV drama Homeland. Goldman shares some of his specific workflow techniques when using Avid as well as … Continue reading →

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Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage

Posted on September 13, 2012 by jonny

Arri Raw and RED Raw in Premiere Pro 6 Richard Harrington demonstrates in this short tutorial how to work with Raw footage in Premiere Pro. Offline-Online RED FCP7 Workflow If you’re looking to do an offline-online workflow with your RED … Continue reading →

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Working with Arri Alexa footage in post

Posted on May 21, 2012 by jonny

Understanding Arri Alexa frame rates I was working on a project recently that was shooting on the Arri Alexa at multiple frame rates – 30fps and 60fps. As I was on set doing the card copying and back up I … Continue reading →

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Understanding RAW, LOG and Uncompressed

Posted on May 19, 2012 by jonny

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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Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets

Posted on February 1, 2012 by jonny

If you need help remembering how fast transfer speeds are over firewire 800, or what the target bit rates are for RED-RAW or what the shortcut is for ‘add edit’ in FCP7 then look no further than worldwide-studios.com for a … Continue reading →

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Creating graded dailies as proxy files with DaVinci Resolve from Log footage

Posted on January 14, 2012 by jonny

DITspot.com looks like a fairly new, yet promising, DIT (Digital Image Technician) website (it only has three articles so far) but they are already excellent sources of DIT info. How to create dailies using DaVinci Resolve This workflow tutorial will … Continue reading →

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DaVinci Resolve Color Grading Tutorials

Posted on January 14, 2012 by jonny

DaVinci Resolve color grading tutorials are popping up all over vimeo and Presynkt Productions in Australia have plenty a few good ones coming online. How to apply a LUT in DaVinci Resolve This 10 minute walkthrough shows you how to … Continue reading →

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