FCPX Tips and Tricks With FCPX more than any other NLE, there always seems to be new things to learn, even for old hands like the crew of the Final Cut Virtual User Group. Although these shows are...
Category - Craft
Sight, Sound and Story 2015
Sight, Sound and Story 2015 – Watch it now! Sight, Sound and Story is an annual, all day event hosted by the very excellent Manhattan Edit Workshop, and features a rare opportunity to hear from...
A Documentary Editing Masterclass
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...
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...
How To Be A DIT – The Complete Series
How To Be A DIT – Series Table of Contents I’ve written up a fair few posts in my ‘How To Be A DIT’ series here on the blogs, and it was wisely suggested that I put together a...
5 Books on The Craft of Film Editing
5 Books on The Craft of Film Editing In this fourth instalment of books on film editing for film editors are a five more books that you may want to read to improve your understanding of the craft...
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...
Tips from Colour Grading Breakdowns
Tips from Colour Grading Breakdowns One of the most interesting things to invest your time in as a budding colorist is examining, frame by frame and node by node, the work of professional colorists...
FCPX Feature Film Workflow
FCPX Feature Film Workflow It’s an exciting time for FCPX and its fans, for it has finally come of age and out of the dog house of popular opinion and into the spotlight. Not that it...
How To Be A DIT Part 13 – Working Professionals
How To Be A DIT Part 13 – Working Professionals In this instalment of How To Be A DIT you’ll find a combination of technical insight on topics like colour management and working with Look...
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 an Assistant Film Editor
How To Become an Assistant Film Editor If you are an aspiring film editor wondering how to make it to the big time, the chances are you’ll start as a runner and work your way up to Assistant...