Category - Editing

5 Free Compositing Apps For Film Editors

5 Free Compositing Applications For Film Editors If you’re looking to beef up your technical and creative chops and get stuck into some serious compositing work, you’ll want to...

52 Tips for Colorists

52 Tips For (DaVinci Resolve) Colorists Today’s #ColorGrading tip: Desaturating vanilla DSLR footage to about 80% (or even less) can do wonders against the video look. — Phil Strahl ...

DaVinci Resolve 12 Tutorials and Tools

DaVinci Resolve 12 Tutorials and Tools DaVinci Resolve 12 is almost here (shipping in July) and the demonstrations from Blackmagic Design are coming thick and fast. In this first video you can check...

Premiere Pro CC 2015 Tutorials

Premiere Pro CC 2015 Tutorials and More Adobe recently released the 2015 version (9.0) of their Creative Cloud software, including Premiere Pro CC 2015. Personally the thing I’m most looking...

How to Deliver a Commercial for Broadcast

Deliver a Commercial for Broadcast If you need to deliver a commercial to a digital broadcaster and need to meet their technical specifications but don’t know where to begin, then these...

How To Build A DIT Cart – HTBD Part 14

How To Build a DIT Cart – How To Be A DIT Part 14 If you want to know how to build a DIT cart from the ground up, then you’re in luck, as the astute Andy Shipsides from the technically...

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...

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...

DaVinci Resolve 12 Tips and Demos

DaVinci Resolve 12 Tips and Demos The big news of NAB 2015 was Blackmagic Design’s epic list of announcements, three of which were of particular interest to me, the first of which was DaVinci...