Improve your Colour Grading – Professional Tips Steve Hullfish gave this half hour presentation to the Editors Lounge on how to get the best out of your edit with simple but effective colour...
Category - Craft
Crafting a 1 Minute Film
How to cut a short film South African editor Johan Walters has a fascinating interview with director/editor Bauke Brouwer on what it takes to craft a one minute short film for the International One...
Color Grading a Fincher Film
Color Grading on Panic Room & Se7en A few youtube gems on color grading a David Fincher movie. About 5 minutes into the Panic Room featurette world class colorist Stephen Nakamura color corrects...
The Post behind Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas & Hitchcock
Feature Film Editorial Round Up One of the things that’s great about the online post production community is getting insights into the latest interesting feature films even before they hit the...
2 Hours with Veteran Film Editor Dede Allen
Dede Allen, Film Editor Interview Dede Allen was a veteran of the golden years of 60-70’s Hollywood, editing films like The Hustler, Bonnie and Clyde, Serpico as well as other classics like The...
Improve Your Film Editing – Advice from Seasoned Professionals
How to be a better film editor – learning the craft The most recent episode of the That Post Show hosted by Kanen Flowers was an incredibly insightful discussion between Norman Hollyn, Alan...
Skyfall’s Post Production Workflow
Inside Skyfall’s post production process The latest instalment of the Bond franchise does not disappoint (so go see it if you still can!) and as ever Roger Deakin’s cinematography does...
5 Amazing Visual Effects Breakdowns
Step by Step Visual Effects Reveals Visual effects breakdowns are always compelling viewing for me, as they are like watching the post production process in reverse. Peeling back the wallpaper and...
Dealing with difficult clients
How to deal with difficult clients I’ll be the first to admit I like laughing at the silly things ‘clients’ say and on the internet you don’t have to look very far for plenty...
Editing Tips from the Editor of The Amazing Spiderman
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has added two more tutorials to his blog one (above) on how to do basic rotoscoping in order...
Preparing for a Grading Session
Questions to ask during the Creative Brief Patrick Inhofer from Taoofcolor.com is (hurricane Sandy not withstanding) about to release his grade along training series in which you get to grade an 8...
Grading & Finishing Commercials
Creative DI in Commercials Studio Daily and Assimilate hosted this hour long webinar with Emery Wells, CEO & Founder of Katabatic, who walks through his colour grading, compositing and finishing...
Editing The Avengers – Jeff Ford
Avid Roughcut – Cutting features of all sizes The Avid Roughcut podcast is a wealth of excellent editing information, advice and insight – I’ve selected some of the best in this...
Editing Breaking Bad with Kelly Dixon
Editing Breaking Bad Editor Kelly Dixon and Post Co-ordinator Trevor Baker spoke at the recent LAFCPUG meeting about how they got into the film editing business and came to be editing the hit TV show...
Books On Film Editing – Part 2
More Books on Film Editing A while back I listed my ‘Top 5 Books on Film Editing‘. Since then I’ve read a few more and thought I’d list them here. There really is a wealth of...