Final Cut Pro X Workflow Round Up If you’re working with FCPX in any serious way then you’ll soon what to rummage through these articles to see how editors around the world are learning...
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Over 4 hours of real-world training for Media Composer
Using Media Composer in the Real World Rule Boston Camera’s Learning Lab Series is always superb and I’ve shared to some of their excellent videos before (like this post on 2 Hours with a...
Layered Photoshop File Won’t Import into FCP7?
Gotcha: Importing Layered Photoshop Files into FCP7 I was trying to bring in some graphics into FCP7 as a layered photoshop file so I could easily animate the different layers separately. But for...
Diary of An Avid Switcher – Part 2: Wrestling The Basics
Working with Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 First of all thanks to all those who have been commenting and tweeting and helping me out while I’m trying to get to grips with working with Avid Media...
3 Essential Books on Avid Editing
3 Books on Editing in Avid Media Composer If you’re looking for some great books on learning Avid Media Composer and then, after having grasped the fundamentals, developing some mastery for it...
The A-Z of Cinema in Sixty Seconds
ABC-Cinema’s 60 second Tour of Cinema History Animator Evan Seitz has created these 5 amazing animations over the course of the past year. Brain teasers for any cinema lover they take you on a...
Compositing Tips for DaVinci Resolve
Compositing Tips for DaVinci Resolve Here are a few handy quick tips for creating composites using external matte and multilayer matte nodes in DaVinci Resolve. Creating a Composite in Resolve Using...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Solutions for FCP Editors
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 – Solutions for FCP Editors If you’re in the throws of making the switch from FCP7 to Avid Media Composer (or just learning Avid for the first time) and...
Colour Grading Dr. Who in Baselight
Colour Grading Dr Who – A Baselight Walkthrough In this 20 minute colour grading walk through of a full episode of Dr. Who, a BBC HD drama series, Filmlight colorist Bob Chorley demonstrates...
Dale Grahn – Colour Timing Over 200 Feature Films
Dale Grahn – Learn to Colour Time Dale Grahn was Spielberg’s color timer (the pre-digital intermediate way to colour grade your film) with over 200 feature film credits listed on imdb...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Part 1: Humble Beginnings
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5 I bought Avid over Christmas, making the most of Videoguys crossgrade deal, and finally installed Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 in the new year. The download and install...
The Power of Subtle Filmmaking
Adam and Dog – Oscar Nominated Animated Short Film Adam and Dog is a beautiful example of the power of subtle filmmaking to convey complex ideas with simple metaphors, which is probably part of...
How To Be a DIT – Part 3
How To Be a DIT – Part 3 I’ve blogged a few times about how to become a DIT or a Digital Imaging Technician, bringing together the best things I can find from the internet to help those...
Inside Pixar’s New Short Film
A sneak peak at Pixar’s latest short film Fast Company have a quick interview with Saschka Unseld, a very talented animator, director and DP who has worked on Brave, Cars 2 and Toy Story 3. He...
5 DaVinci Resolve Tutorials
5 DaVinci Resolve Tutorials Here is another round up of 5 recent DaVinci Resolve tips and tutorials that will help smooth out a few workflow kinks and make the most of this amazing free software...