Tips for using DaVinci Resolve 9.0.1 Blackmagic Design have released another update for DaVinci Resolve which adds a few extra things like CinemaDNG highlight recovery. You can download DaVinci...
Category - Editing
Walter Murch’s Workflow
Murch on editing Hemingway & Gellhorn Walter Murch is one of the granddaddy’s of film editing and is always well worth a read whenever he’s interviewed. Oliver Peter’s has a...
Emmy nominated editors on editing
6th Annual PrimeCuts Event 2012 If you couldn’t make it to the (free) PrimeCuts event recently then check out this posting of the audio (and nice photos/tweet montage) on youtube. This first...
Expand your skill set – Free Tutorials
Video2Brain – Free Tutorial Archive If you’re looking to expand your skill set and be able to say ‘yes’ when you get the classic client question: “Can you use...
Invisible Art, Visible Artists
Award Winning Editors Share Their Secrets The IAVA is an annual pannel featuring award winning editors sharing their craft and insights from their Oscar nominated films. Here are some of the best...
2 & 1/2 Hours of free Smoke 2013 Training
Free Smoke 2013 Tutorials If you’re looking for a high end ‘finishing’ program editorial mashup then Smoke 2013 may be just what you need. The Smoke Training youtube channel now has...
Better editing in Avid
Re-editing an action sequence At the 2011 Supermeet editor Eddie Hamilton (in the middle of a Avid demo) played two versions of an edited action sequence from Kick Ass. Jump to about 6 minutes in and...
Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage
Arri Raw and RED Raw in Premiere Pro 6 Richard Harrington demonstrates in this short tutorial how to work with Raw footage in Premiere Pro. Offline-Online RED FCP7 Workflow If you’re looking to...
Correct footage in correct timeline still needs rendering?
FCP Timeline Gotcha The basic principle in Final Cut Pro 7 for having to do as little rendering as possible is to make sure that everything matches. The sequence settings of your timeline (select it...
Grading a music video with Resolve 9
Inside a grade – Renaissance Style Tristan Kneschke has a great post detailing his grading process on a Renaissance style rap video for ‘Killer Mike’ in DaVinci Resolve 9. Tristan...
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell
Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...
Adding Grain in DaVinci Resolve 9
Walkthrough of a new feature in Resolve 9 In this great 5 minute tutorial, colorist Juan Salvo from The Coloristos, highlights a new feature in DaVinci Resolve 9 that provides you with a better way...
‘Beauty’ grading tips & Assimilate Scratch Webinar
‘Beauty’ grading tips for that commercial look Andreas Brueckl demonstrates how to achieve the unachievable with some revealing tips about what goes into creating a beauty based TV...
DaVinci Resolve Color Grading 101
Free Four Part Resolve Tutorial Series Den Lennie from F-stop Academy has created a free four part colour grading tutorial series. As a DP (rather than a colorist) Den offers more of a beginners...
Standing Desks for Film Editors
Creating your own standing desk Sitting at your desk for 40+ hours a week is slowly killing you. Standing is healthier and apparently makes you more productive. Plus Walter Murch does it so it must...