Category - Editing

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...

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...

Three Avid Workflow Tips

Roundtripping: Avid to Resolve & Back Here’s a short video tutorial on how to get your timeline from Avid Media Composer to DaVinci Resolve and back again… Skip to 4 minutes in to get...

Tackling Challenging Edits

Inside two difficult edits As an editor I’m always on the look out for other editors talking about their craft, and often the most interesting stories are how they solved the problems that...

DaVinci Resolve 9 Tutorials

DaVinci Resolve 9 Tutorials Warren Eagles from the ICA has recently posted these two tutorials on DaVinci Resolve 9. The first ‘tutorial’ is actually Warren talking through his 5...

Finishing in Final Cut Pro X

Finishing Your Project in FCPX Oliver Peter’s has a great article on colour grading in FCP X to finish your project. Demonstrating just how much is possible (although why wouldn’t you...

Editing with VFX in mind…

Editing in your own VFX If you’ve not watched Alan Edward Bell’s 30 minute webinar on the visual effects that he temped into his offline cuts of The Amazing Spiderman, then sit down and...

REDCINE-X Pro Tutorials

Grading in REDCINE-X Pro and more… REDCINE-X Pro, the free ingest and grading application from RED, lets you create dailies or finished graded material from your original RED metadata. The...