Category - Craft

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...

Learn the Craft of Film Editing

Learn the Craft of Film Editing If you want to learn the craft of film editing, to truly understand the ‘why’ of film editing and not just the technical button pushing how. If you want to...

Professional Colour Grading Breakdowns

Professional Colour Grading Breakdowns Learning from professional colorists is one of the best ways to improve your own colour grading skills, and this round up of breakdowns from a wide variety of...

Craft Insights – Editors in Conversation

Craft Insights – Editors in Conversation Commercial’s editor James Rosen, shares some fantastic creative wisdom in this blog post on the creative potential of intention, and our place as...

Mixing Light – A Year in Review

Mixing Light Colorist Training – In Review It’s been over a year since my initial review of Mixing Light.com, the professional colorist training site which delivers weekly insights to a...

Feature Film Workflows

Feature Film Workflows There is a certain feeling of trepidation that is experienced in the heart of every editor when they take on a project that is bigger and more complex than anything...

Interviews with Film Colorists

Interviews with Film Colorists If you want to learn how to be a better colorist then you need to get around professional colorists and ask them as many questions as you can. If you don’t happen...

Tips for Better Editing in Premiere Pro

Tips for Better Editing in Premiere Pro In this 30 minute webinar editor Richard Harrington shares a ton of tips for better editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, from which you are guaranteed to...

The Making of The Martian

The Making of The Martian I really enjoyed The Martian, starring earth’s most expensive rescuee – Matt Damon. Him and a host of Go-Pro cameras. Strangely what I appreciated most about the...

The Best Studio Monitors For An Edit Suite

The Best Studio Monitors For An Edit Suite Update July 2022: My personal recommendation for the best studio monitors for your edit suite would be the Yamaha HS7s, which I have used happily for years...