DaVinci Resolve 10.1.3 Colour Grading Resources The latest version of DaVinci Resolve 10.1.3 is now out – so speedy are the folk at Blackmagic Design and so determined are they to keep...
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How To Be A DIT – Part 8
How To Be A DIT – Insights From Working DITs If you’re looking for the inside scoop on what it’s like to be a working DIT then Charlie Anderson’s excellent blog is well worth...
DaVinci Resolve 10 Grading Tutorials
DaVinci Resolve 10 Color Grading Tutorials DaVinci Resolve 10 is now out of beta and available to download. The latest release from Blackmagic Design is a huge leap forward – adding in features...
How To Be A DIT Part 7
How To Be A DIT Part 7 – Tips & Tech This series of How To Be A DIT posts is marching into it’s 7th instalment. Although you don’t have to be a DIT to benefit from the resources...
How To Be A DIT – Part 6
Resources for DITs Keeping up to date with the latest developments in digital imaging capture, storage and transfer is a vital part of any DITs role. Hopefully these resources will help to do just...
How To Be A DIT – Part 5
Resources for New DITs In this 5th round up of online resources for DIT’s (Digital Image Technicians) editors and colourists who need to understand more about colour science, workflows and data...
How To Be A DIT – Part 4
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...
Matching Film Stocks with Film Convert
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...
Skyfall’s Post Production Workflow
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...
Editing Homeland
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...
Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage
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...
Working with Arri Alexa footage in post
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...
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...
Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets
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...
Creating graded dailies as proxy files with DaVinci Resolve from Log footage
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...