DaVinci Resolve v9 public beta released Head over to Black Magic Design to download the new public beta of DaVinci Resolve v9 and give it a go yourself. You will need to be on Lion or Mountain Lion...
Category - Editing
Sound Design on The Dark Knight Rises
Behind the scenes on The Dark Knight Rises The SoundWorks Collection by Michael Coleman is always worth keeping an eye on for his 10 minute behind the scenes featurettes on the sound design of the...
Solving ‘General Error’ message in FCP7
How to fix ”General Error” message in FCP7 I had this ”General Error” message pop up in FCP7 the other day when my edit would no longer save (although thankfully I could save...
Adobe Speedgrade CS6 Video Tutorials
Learning Adobe Speedgrade CS6 SpliceNpost (via Jim Wicks) has a series of 8 good (and free) video tutorials on how to get started with Speedgrade CS6. Aimed at beginners, but useful for experienced...
Christopher Nolan on The Batman Trilogy
Christopher Nolan in conversation The Treatment has interviewed director Christopher Nolan on all three releases of Nolan’s epic Batman trilogy and he is, as ever, erudite and entertaining...
Interviews with Master Editors
Master Editors – Anne V Coates Anne V Coates has cut such great films as Lawrence of Arabia, In the Line of Fire, Out of Sight and Erin Brokovich and in this excerpt from Justin Chang’s...
Crafting the edit – Episodic TV
Editing lessons from The Vampire Diaries Nancy Forner has written a great article over on Creative Cow with her thoughts on the art and craft of turning 40 hours of dailies into 42 minutes of...
Three Question Survey
Three Questions for editors
A Month of Color Grading Learning
Learning the fundamentals of Color Grading Patrick Inhoffer of the Tao of Color (and a thuroughly fantastic free newsletter) has been blogging for the past month on splicevine on the fundamentals of...
Screenwriters on The Storytelling Process
Tony Gilroy & Terry George on Writing Hitchcock said that every film has three births; The Script, The Shoot and The Edit. Learning about the other two births is fundamental to pulling off the...
Filmmaking Masterclasses, Lectures and Interviews
Learn your craft from Hollywood legends… BAFTA have a fantastic array of high quality material from some of the biggest names in cinematic history and its well worth a rummage. Here are some of...
2 hours with a colorist
Colorist training – a lecture on real projects Colorist Rob Bessette delivers a 2 hour lecture walking through the fundamentals of color grading and then demonstrating how he graded a...
Round up of Adobe Tutorials
Premiere, Speedgrade & After Effects Tutorials If you’re looking for free tutorials and training on using any of Adobe’s new Production Premium CS6 software then these links should...
Interview with color assistant from EFILM
What does a colorist’s assistant do? Aaron Williams has a great interview with his friend Luis Silva on what its like to work at EFILM, one of the world’s major DI houses as a...
How to transcode media into Avid MXF
Creating Avid MXF media in DaVinci Resolve Lite This is great tip from Eric Brodeur on how to transcode your footage into the Avid MXF format and then get it into Avid MC6. When Resolve 9 is released...