AVID Rough Cut Interviews Avid Rough Cut has 40 episodes under its belt. They feature in depth interviews with filmmakers and editors on their craft, careers and insights on the world of filmmaking...
Category - Editing
How to be a great sound editor
Sound editing 30 minute bootcamp Vickie Sampson presented this 30 minute walk through at LAFCPUG about what your sound editor needs from all aspects of production, but also from you as the film...
Anatomy of an Action Scene
Shot by Shot – Cutting an Action Scene In this great three part video essay Jim Emerson dissects the structure of several action scenes from The Dark Knight, Salt and The French...
Anatomy of a grade – node by node breakdown
Node by node breakdown of a grade Colorist Chris Hall from Basher Films has created nine episodes of ‘Anatomy of a grade’ which provides a creative look at some of his grading work. In...
A.C.E. Editors on their craft…
American Cinema Editors share their wisdom Cinema Editor Magazine, the official magazine of ACE, has a great selection of articles and interviews from its editors – for which you’ll have...
Edit Fest LA (The view from the Internet)
Edit Fest LA – An outsiders view Living in London there was very little way for me to get to LA for Edit Fest but thanks to the mighty internet, and some gracious tweeters here is a round up of...
What editors want to learn…
Results from 3 Question Survey I posted a quick 3 question survey the other week, mostly to find out what I should be blogging about but also to see what other editors in the industry were...
DaVinci Resolve 9 Download & Video Demos (Updated)
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...
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