Category - Creativity

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...

Inside Professional Editing Timelines

Professional Film Editing Timelines It’s not often that you get to peer over the shoulder of a Hollywood feature film editor and see exactly what they look at day after day, whilst honing the...

The Making of The Revenant

The Making of The Revenant The Revenant looks like one brutal journey. Not only for the central character but also for the cast and crew. Shot over the course of almost a year in deepest Canada, the...

Trapcode Suite 13 Review

Trapcode Suite 13 Review Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite, and specifically Trapcode Particular, are often seen by motion graphics artists as an essential item in the creation of superior looking...