Michael Cioni Supermeet Speech Michael Cioni, CEO of LightIron Digital, spoke on the need for evolution or face extinction. Product demos from the Amsterdam Supermeet John Brawly demo of the...
Category - Avid
Three Avid Workflow Tips
Roundtripping: Avid to Resolve & Back Here’s a short video tutorial on how to get your timeline from Avid Media Composer to DaVinci Resolve and back again… Skip to 4 minutes in to get...
Avid Media Composer 6 in Action
Cutting Bourne Legacy on Avid John Gilroy is the brother of director Tony Gilroy and editor of films like Michael Clayton, Warrior and Salt. In this interview by Oliver Peters, John discusses the...
The Psychology of a Scene
Crafting your edit Moviola.com has weekly webinars (free at the time, paid for on demand later). They also do an interview with the presenter each week, which you can listen to for free on their...
Filmmaking from an editors perspective
AVID Rough Cut Interviews Avid Rough Cut has 40 episodes under its belt. They feature in depth interviews with filmmakers and editors on their craft, careers and insights on the world of filmmaking...
How to transcode media into Avid MXF
Creating Avid MXF media in DaVinci Resolve Lite This is great tip from Eric Brodeur on how to transcode your footage into the Avid MXF format and then get it into Avid MC6. When Resolve 9 is released...
FCP7 editors moving to Avid or Premiere Pro
Moving from FCP7 to Avid MC6 If you’re thinking of moving to Avid Media Composer 6 then this free white paper from Avid should give you a heads up on what you’ll need to know to make the...
How to get a job as an editor
Getting your big break Zac Arnold shares how he worked his way to his ”big break” through Craigslist and Facebook (and a lot of hard work!) Assistant Editing Handbook (free chapter!) If...
How to run a post production studio
How to run an edit facility Post Magazine has an interesting article interviewing different post production house bosses run their editing facilities with comments ranging from which software...
Getting started using LUTS
Using LUT Buddy from Red Giant LUT Buddy is one of Red Giants free tools (along with Colorista Free) and allows you to… Use LUT Buddy with host apps like After Effects and FCP to output LUTs...
Choosing your editing software package…
Premiere Pro CS6 vs Final Cut Pro X Vs Avid MC6 If you’re trying to decide which editing software to go for, be it Adobe, Apple or Avid then Oliver Peter’s insightful article will help...
Useful resources for learning Avid
Useful Resources when 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...
Learning Avid
Switching from FCP to Avid? In the quest to find a more long term solution for an editing platform I’ve been looking closely at Avid Media Composer 6. Oliver Peter’s has a very handy...
Thinking about Learning Avid…
Avid Media Composer is the only piece of software (other than After Effects) that I’ve lost work by not knowing. Some post houses are all Avid and when you want to work there, you need to know...
How to view Avid MXF files without installing Avid
ProVideoCoalition have a handy post on how to view Avid .MXF files without having to install Avid. This becomes very useful when all you want to know is what’s inside that folder of confusingly...