A fistful of colour grading tutorials Presynkt Post always have good DaVinci Resolve tutorials and here is their latest quick tip on how to reframe RED EPIC footage and use vignettes to help draw the...
Category - R3D
Using metadata to colour correct RAW video
Blain Brown has a handy 7 minute tutorial on adjusting the metadata on your RED raw footage, in this case inside Assimilate Scratch, to colour correct your footage to the appropriate ISO, colour...
Creating a real film look from digital footage
Creating a real film look Studio Daily recently held a 70 minute webinar in partnership with Assimilate Scratch on how to create a film look from digital footage by adding a ‘film...
Thunderbolt Capture Devices Test Review
Oliver Peters has a comprehensive test review of the first batch of Thunderbolt enabled I/O devices which allow you to capture and playback via through external interfaces. Peter’s tests the...
Syncing Audio in RED CINE-X Pro
How to sync audio in RED CINE-X Pro This tutorial from RED will show you how to manually and auto sync audio to your R3D files. You can download RED CINE-X Pro (beta) for free from red.com here.
Colour grading a TV commercial using Assimilate Scratch
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...
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...
What does a DIT do?
With the proliferation of file based workflows essentially becoming the norm, having a DIT (Digital Image Technician) on set to wrangle data, create dailies and provide near set colour grading...
REDCINE-X PRO Workflow
How to conform RED raw files For a step by step tutorial on using REDCINE-X PRO to finish your Final Cut Pro edit with a roundtrip through Color to grade your RED footage, from the raw .r3d files...
Editing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Editing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Oliver Peter’s has a written up great interview with Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter who were the editing team behind The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. There...
Conform FCP timeline to r3d files automatically
Michael Cinquin – an editor from Belgium – has created some life saving tools for film editors (which can only be found online) and one in particular will help you to conform your FCP...
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...
DaVinci Resolve Color Grading Tutorials
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...
Understanding 4K Cinema
What is 4k? Oliver Peters has written up an excellent introduction to understanding the basic concepts of 4K cinema, from the underlying sensor technology, the different sorts of cameras (such as the...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo final editorial workflow
Conforming and Compositing A Feature Digitalcontentproducer.com has a detailed article from assistant editor Tyler Nelson (who also used a similar workflow on The Social Network) describing the...