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...
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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...
Over 6 Hours of Free Colour Grading & VFX Training
6 Hours of Free Assimilate Scratch Training If you want over 6 hours of free training on professional color grading and compositing techniques and generally how to make the most Assimilate...
Paperman – Oscar Nominated Animated Short Film
Paperman – Pushing animation boundaries Paperman is the latest B-movie (in the traditional sense of the word) to play before a Disney film (Wreck-it-Ralph) and is director John Kahrs first...
Spielberg’s Editor – Michael Kahn on Editing
Michael Kahn’s Insights on Film Editing Michael Kahn has been Spielberg’s editor since Close Encounters of the Third Kind, collaborating together for over thirty years. I can only think...
DaVinci Resolve Tutorial Round Up
More great DaVinci Resolve Tutorials With the recent release of DaVinci Resolve 9.1 there have been a few more great tutorials popping up on the web. Here is a round up of some of the best on offer...
Zero Dark Thirty – Post Production
Behind the Scenes on Zero Dark Thirty I really enjoyed Kathryn Bigelow’s previous film The Hurt Locker – mostly for the thrillingly suspenseful action. So I’m really looking forward...
FCPX 10.0.7 – Tips, Tricks & Tutorials
Editing Workflow Tips For FCPX 10.0.7 I’ve noticed quite a few great little FCPX tips and tricks posted online lately so I thought I’d round them all up into one big helpful post. Free...
Understanding Color Gamuts, Working with ACES in Resolve & More…
Three Lessons in Color Science If you want to get into some of the more technical aspects of color grading and develop an understanding of ‘some’ of what color science is and means then...