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...
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A Personal Project: Raising £10k for the best of causes!
Important Update – September 2012 Over the past six months I’ve been helping to raise money for a small but amazing community school in Kampala, Uganda for a vital building project that...
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...
Kick-Ass Film Editor in Conversation
Eddie Hamilton on Editing Kick-Ass Eddie Hamilton is one of the editors who cut Kick-Ass and X-Men First Class and in this 30 minute conversation with Chris Jones he shares what it was like to spend...
Avid Media Composer 6 in Action
Cutting Bourne Legacy on Avid John Gilroy is the brother of director Tony Gilroy and editor of films like Michael Clayton, Warrior and Salt. In this interview by Oliver Peters, John discusses the...
TED: Filmmakers
Great Talks from Filmmakers on TED.com Ted.com is amazing and well worth a regular browse to inspire, entertain and enlighten yourself on many diverse and amazing topics. Its just brilliant from...
Film Trailer Sound Design
Film Trailer Sound Design Half of a film trailer is usually the race to the crescendo ending and possibly one or two extra beats of surprise endings after the title just for good measure, and the...
RED Workflow – FCP7 to Resolve to FCPX
Indie feature film RED workflow FCP.co has a great write up of one indie feature’s RED workflow that involved roundtrips from Final Cut Pro 7 through Resolve and back to FCP X. Nick Gregorio...
How To Edit Film Trailers
Cutting Film Trailers Recently director Joe Carnahan uploaded this sizzle reel for the (18/NC-17) version of DareDevil that he was trying to persuade the studios to let him make. More interesting to...
5 books for creatives everyone should read…
There are a small selection of books that I keep recommending to people (creatives and ‘non-creatives’ alike – in my mind everyone is creative in some way) that I think are worth...
The Psychology of a Scene
Crafting your edit Moviola.com has weekly webinars (free at the time, paid for on demand later). They also do an interview with the presenter each week, which you can listen to for free on their...