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...
Category - Editing
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 –...
Tutorials for Better Editing in Premiere Pro
Tutorials for Better Editing in Premiere Pro If you’re looking to improve your editing in Adobe Premiere Pro then the following tutorials will serve you well. Not least, these 10 very useful...
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...
DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading Tutorial Round Up
DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading Round Up DaVinci Resolve has taken another leap forward with it’s 11.2 release, which includes several new features, listed below. You can download the updates...
5 Books To Help You Learn How To Be A DIT
5 Books To Learn How To Be A DIT Learning how to be a DIT can be a tricky thing. For starters there’s a lot to master. You need to know the nuances of how to work with cameras and digital...
How To Be A DIT – Part 12 – From The Sensor To The Screen
How To Be A DIT – From Sensor To Screen A DIT’s (Digital Image Technician) responsibilities cover the entire journey an image will take from the camera sensor to the screen. Beginning...
How To Become A Better Colorist
How To Become A Better Colorist If you want to become a better colorist this year then learning from some of the world’s best colorists would definitely be a smart idea. In this round up of...