Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor

2 hours of Final Cut Pro X Tips

jonny — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:32:38 +0000

Mark Spencer and Steve Martin from Ripple Training talk through the latest features and updates in FCP X 10.0.3, including relinking media, green screening, multicam clips and archival media management.

Managing FCPX events and projects…

During the show Steve Martin talks about how to use ‘sparse disc images’ to archive and back up your FCP X projects and media. The full workflow can be found here on the ripple training site.

Touchscreen editing with FCPX

jonny — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:28:37 +0000

It’s all very Minority Report, but this video demonstration from Jason Rose, shows off his touchscreen interface while editing with FCPX. It’s also a handy demonstration of how to create multicam clips in the latest release. The only problem for me is that until you can touch in multiple places at once you won’t match the speed of editing using keyboard short cuts. Still I wouldn’t mind owning one!

Understanding 4K and the future of cinema

jonny — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:16:26 +0000

The future of digital cinema…

Michael Cioni of LightIron Digital delivers an unmissable presentation on 4k and the future of digital cinema, whilst revealing in detail the post-production workflow on Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which was 4k+ from start to finish.

Michael talks through the death of aspect ratios, the power of 5K with a 4K centre cut and using Itunes to podcast dailies around the world. During his presentation he refers to Clipster, a product from DVS, that can spit out a 2 hour H.264 film in 15 minutes. That is fast!

Colour grading a TV commercial using Assimilate Scratch

jonny — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:52:31 +0000

Freelance colorist Andreas Brueckl has some great tutorials for colour grading using Assimilate Scratch. This whirlwind tutorial reveals the process he used for a TV commercial which involved a lot of complex alpha matte based grades. This tutorial gives you some idea of the power and simplicity that Scratch can provide.

Assimilate Scratch Colour Grading Tutorials

Andreas also has a more in-depth tutorial on creating a monochromatic look in Scratch.

Assimilate also have a wealth of tutorials on their website which I’ve blogged about here.

Creating a film look…

If that’s not enough, why not check out this great 70 minute webinar, presented by Jerome Thelia about creating a film look without shooting film. This webinar looks at footage that was shot on RED MX, digitally graded in Scratch and recorded to film stock to finish. Jerome covers the use of log scans, LUTs, anamorphic resizing, histograms, and split screens for color matching/comparison.

Understanding Media Management in FCP X

jonny — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:26:10 +0000

With the tumultuous initial release of Final Cut Pro X, Apple completely changed the way that FCP manages the media and project settings and where it stores the media files, back up files, transcodes etc… Larry Jordan has a simple introduction to understanding the media management that is happening under the hood.

Manage FCP X Projects and Events

As part of Larry’s article he recommends using Event Manager X from Intelligent Assistance, a $5 app, that makes keeping track of what projects are open and available in FCP X at any one time. As useful as these 3rd party developer apps are, I for one hope that they will become incorporated into the official releases from Apple.

DaVinci Resolve Lite – more tutorials

jonny — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:05:15 +0000

Here is a decent 15 minute tutorial that will help you get started with using DaVinci Resolve Lite. Dan walks through how to get set up, bring in media and work with R3D footage.

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jonny — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:19:53 +0000

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The A-Z of Cinema in sixty seconds

jonny — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Interviews with film editors

jonny — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:38:08 +0000

DP/30 has a whole host of candid 30 minute interviews with many film editors including Michael Kahn and Thelma Schoonmaker. There is a further wealth of interviews on the youtube channel.

Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID Review

jonny — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:12:02 +0000

Provideocoalition has a review by Allan Tépper, of the Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID 5, which combines high performance with data redundancy for HD film editing. If you don’t know anything about RAID’s read the wikipedia entry for a good heads up.

Thunderbolt RAIDs…

The review turns out favourably for the incredible speed (even using a mac mini or a macbook air) and the decent redundancy (If one of the 5 drives corrupts, the other 4 can reconstitute it when you hot swap in another drive). Allan also has a good article on setting up an edit suite with a Pegasus RAID, Mac Mini and daisy chained displays.

UPDATE: Ken Stone has an incredibly thorough review and walk through on how to set up your Pegasus Thunderbolt Raid. If you’re thinking of getting one, read this first.