A Documentary Editing Masterclass If you’re new to the world of documentary editing then this hour long conversation with 22 year veteran Frontline editor Steve Audette, will serve as...
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The Making of Mad Max: Fury Road
The Making of Mad Max: Fury Road If you’re as excited about Mad Max: Fury Road as the rest of the world, then this round up of behind the scenes interviews, scene breakdowns and making of...
Books For Creatives – Every Book Review on the Blog
Books For Creatives – Every Book Review on the Blog I love a good book. I love acquiring new knowledge, discovering fresh ideas and enjoying a good tale, well told. So over the years I’ve...
What’s New in Final Cut Pro 10.2?
What’s New in Final Cut Pro 10.2? It’s always a pleasant surprise when Apple updates Final Cut Pro X and they chose to coincide with NAB 2015 for their latest release, which brings...
Inspirational Filmmaking Craft Round Up
Inspirational Filmmaking Craft Round Up Every now and then, you just need to see something inspirational about the craft of filmmaking that leaves you wanting to get up and make better films, tell...
Free FCPX Effects & Plugins
Free FCPX Effects and Plugins A popular post here on the blog is this one from about 2 years ago which rounded up a collection of free FCPX resources. I thought it was about time I updated it! So the...
Grading in a hurry – Creative Looks in a Click
Quick Creative Looks in a Click If you need to give you project a bit of polish in a flash then you might want to look into a ‘look packages’ like these Speedlooks from Look Labs. They...
The Making of Chappie
The Making of Chappie Every so often on the blog I end up creating some massive, constantly updated post about a particular film that’s just come out. Somehow often sci-fi movies –...
Pro Tips To Improve Your Colour Grading
Pro Tips To Improve Your Colour Grading Today’s #ColorGrading tip: Underexposed footage has quite some ugly color noise going on. Desaturating the shadows can help. — Phil Strahl ...
How To Become A Better Colorist
How To Become A Better Colorist If you want to become a better colorist this year then learning from some of the world’s best colorists would definitely be a smart idea. In this round up of...
How To Edit A Documentary
How To Edit A Documentary – An Inside View If you’ve ever wondered how to edit a documentary then editor Steve Audette is the man to show you how it’s done. Steve has edited...
How To Become A Commercials Editor
How To Become A Commercials Editor – Interview with a Pro James Rosen is a sought-after commercial’s editor working at boutique editing house Final Cut, in the heart of London. James and I sat...
Behind The Scenes on Interstellar
Behind The Scenes on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is probably my most anticipated film of 2014, and one that I will enjoy seeing in 70mm film print at...
Learn Film Editing From Master Film Editors
Learn Film Editing From Master Film Editors Before the internet I really have no idea how you would have the opportunity to learn as much, and in as much detail, as you can from excellent resources...
The Making of Gone Girl
Inside the Gone Girl Post Production Workflow David Fincher’s Gone Girl seems to have created the perfect storm for post production geeks (like me!) who are both excited by the prospect of a...