Category - Craft

Editing Homeland

Cutting Episodic TV on Avid Studio Daily has a fantastic interview with Jordan Goldman on his creative process for editing the acclaimed episodic TV drama Homeland. Goldman shares some of his...

Conforming in Resolve

How to use a Reference Movie in Resolve Warren Eagles from the ICA has this 10 minute tutorial inside the latest version of Resolve – 9.0.2. Warren talks through the importance of using a...

Post Production on LOOPER

Cloud-based visual effects on LOOPER There are plenty of interesting goodies floating around the internet around the release of Looper and you can find some of the best ones compiled here. To kick...

Editors Craft Round Up

Editors on their craft Here’s a round up of some of the most recent articles on the internet on editors speaking on their craft… Being an editor Dad Kylee Wall has written up one of the...

Walter Murch’s Workflow

Murch on editing Hemingway & Gellhorn Walter Murch is one of the granddaddy’s of film editing and is always well worth a read whenever he’s interviewed. Oliver Peter’s has a...

Emmy nominated editors on editing

6th Annual PrimeCuts Event 2012 If you couldn’t make it to the (free) PrimeCuts event recently then check out this posting of the audio (and nice photos/tweet montage) on youtube. This first...

Invisible Art, Visible Artists

Award Winning Editors Share Their Secrets The IAVA is an annual pannel featuring award winning editors sharing their craft and insights from their Oscar nominated films. Here are some of the best...

Grading a music video with Resolve 9

Inside a grade – Renaissance Style Tristan Kneschke has a great post detailing his grading process on a Renaissance style rap video for ‘Killer Mike’ in DaVinci Resolve 9. Tristan...

Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell

Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...

Standing Desks for Film Editors

Creating your own standing desk Sitting at your desk for 40+ hours a week is slowly killing you. Standing is healthier and apparently makes you more productive. Plus Walter Murch does it so it must...

Tackling Challenging Edits

Inside two difficult edits As an editor I’m always on the look out for other editors talking about their craft, and often the most interesting stories are how they solved the problems that...

Editing with VFX in mind…

Editing in your own VFX If you’ve not watched Alan Edward Bell’s 30 minute webinar on the visual effects that he temped into his offline cuts of The Amazing Spiderman, then sit down and...

Kick-Ass Film Editor in Conversation

Eddie Hamilton on Editing Kick-Ass Eddie Hamilton is one of the editors who cut Kick-Ass and X-Men First Class and in this 30 minute conversation with Chris Jones he shares what it was like to spend...

Avid Media Composer 6 in Action

Cutting Bourne Legacy on Avid John Gilroy is the brother of director Tony Gilroy and editor of films like Michael Clayton, Warrior and Salt. In this interview by Oliver Peters, John discusses the...