How to become an Assistant Film Editor If you’re interested in learning how to become an assistant editor then there are quite a few resources out there to help you get started, or at least...
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Preparing for a Grading Session
Questions to ask during the Creative Brief Patrick Inhofer from Taoofcolor.com is (hurricane Sandy not withstanding) about to release his grade along training series in which you get to grade an 8...
Grading & Finishing Commercials
Creative DI in Commercials Studio Daily and Assimilate hosted this hour long webinar with Emery Wells, CEO & Founder of Katabatic, who walks through his colour grading, compositing and finishing...
Understanding DCP – Digital Cinema Package
What is DCP and why is it the future? Digital Cinema Package’s are the future of cinema projection (sadly – I love film!) but if you’re not up to scratch yet on what it is, how it...
New Features in FCPX 10.0.6
LAFCPUG – FCPX 10.0.6 Walkthrough For over an hour, Mark Spencer and Steve Martin from Ripple Training walk through the new features in FCPX 10.0.6 at the latest LAFCPUG meeting. The update to...
DaVinci Resolve 9 Keyboard Shortcuts
Resolve 9 Keyboard Shortcut Cheatsheets For a handy list of keyboard shortcuts for DaVinci Resolve 9 check out these free downloads. Mathieu Marano of Ilovehue.net has created these free keyboard...
Tapeless Workflow – Doing all the right things
Tapeless Workflow for Beginners Shane Ross of Little Frog in HD delivers a concise and complete workflow tutorial on how to work with tapeless media in FCP 7. This is well worth a watch for any...
Editing The Avengers – Jeff Ford
Avid Roughcut – Cutting features of all sizes The Avid Roughcut podcast is a wealth of excellent editing information, advice and insight – I’ve selected some of the best in this...
Editing Breaking Bad with Kelly Dixon
Editing Breaking Bad Editor Kelly Dixon and Post Co-ordinator Trevor Baker spoke at the recent LAFCPUG meeting about how they got into the film editing business and came to be editing the hit TV show...
FCPX 10.0.6 – Free Tutorials
Free Tutorials for FCPX 10.0.6 We Make Movies has eight free tutorials, specifically for the new FCPX 10.0.6 update, that will take you through among other things a detailed RED workflow as well as...
How to create the perfect key
Learning how to key green-screen correctly If your approach to keying green screen shots is to slap on a plugin and hope for the best then Splice Vine’s August series on keying and matting by...
New Features in Assimilate Scratch v7
Assimilate Scratch 7 New Features Tutorials Assimilate Scratch is a compositing, colour grading and finishing tool which also doubles as a dailies creation system. Here are some short 2 minute...
Books On Film Editing – Part 2
More Books on Film Editing A while back I listed my ‘Top 5 Books on Film Editing‘. Since then I’ve read a few more and thought I’d list them here. There really is a wealth of...
Conversations with Multi Award Winning Editors
Film Editors in Conversation Movie Geeks United has an awesome archive of over 600 interviews with actors, directors, producers, composers, DoP’s, editors and more. Here are some of the best...
LOG Grading in Resolve 9
Grading with LOG in DaVinci Resolve 9 Presynkt Post has another great tutorial on how to work with the LOG tool set in Resolve. He walks through how the LOG tool set operates and then demonstrates a...