Category - Creativity

After Effects For Film Editors Part 1

After Effects for Film Editors – Part 1 Learn After Effects to boost your editing career Focus on the fundamentals to get the best results possible Free After Effects Templates and useful...

Rogue One – Plus Star Wars Edit and VFX

The Making of Rogue One The excitement around Rogue One is building and I thought it was a good opportunity to pull together some great resources on StarWars: The Force Awakens that I’ve been...

Editing 360 and VR Video

Editing 360 and VR Video Understand the essential terms, concepts and technology for VR Learn VR’s post-production pipeline in Premiere and FCPX Does VR narrative filmmaking have a future...

Post Production Promo Codes & Freebies

Post Production Promo Codes & Freebies Everyone likes to save money, or even get things for free and scattered throughout the blog there are promo codes, discounts and freebies galore. So to make...

Sound Design Tips for Film Editors

Sound Design Tips for Film Editors Sound design is a hugely important topic for any editor to increase their knowledge of. There’s a whole category on the blog devoted to sound design, but...

Name That Editor – Episode One!

Name That Editor – Episode One In a new and hopefully fun addition to this blog, I’m experimenting with a video quiz show series called Name That Editor.  The premise of which is...

Insights on The Craft of Film Editing

Insights on The Craft of Film Editing To me the craft of film editing is every part of the job that’s non-technical. It’s the reasoning behind the creative decision making, the diplomacy...

How To Be A 2nd Assistant Film Editor

What does a Second Assistant Editor Do? The role of a second assistant film editor isn’t often the focus of many interviews, as the limelight often falls primarily on the Editor or even First...

Tips on Editing Documentaries in Avid

Tips on Documentary Editing in Avid If you want to learn how to edit a documentary in Avid Media Composer, then there’s few better teachers to spend time with than PBS Frontline editor Steve...

FCPX Twitter Tips

FCPX Twitter Tips Why FCPX? Easy: keywords and metadata. You try watching 135 Chuck Jones cartoons and organizing them. pic.twitter.com/sczTfBDOeF — Tony Zhou (@tonyszhou) January 8, 2016 There...