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...
Category - Editing
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...
DaVinci Resolve Tutorials To Improve Your Grades
DaVinci Resolve Tutorials To Improve Your Grades Even though DaVinci Resolve 12 has been announced with lots of exciting features – check out this pretty epic post on it – there is still...
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...
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...
Essential Editing Apps Every Film Editor Should Own
Essential Apps Every Film Editor Should Own Every now and then it’s helpful to reconsider your workflow and see if there’s a better way of doing things. In writing this post I was seeking...
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...
Free FCPX Effects & Plugins
Free FCPX Effects and Plugins A popular post here on the blog is this one from about 2 years ago which rounded up a collection of free FCPX resources. I thought it was about time I updated it! So the...
Grading in a hurry – Creative Looks in a Click
Quick Creative Looks in a Click If you need to give you project a bit of polish in a flash then you might want to look into a ‘look packages’ like these Speedlooks from Look Labs. They...
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 –...