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...
Category - Editing
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...
Telling a story well
Here are some of the best things I’ve found on the art, craft and power of storytelling. Storytelling Bobette Buster and the Arc of Storytelling gives a 15 minute overview of what Hollywood...
Learning ‘Why’ To Edit
Learning the logic of film editing Check out these beautifully put together videos by Joe LaMattina, featuring Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter talking about editing The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, and...
Common sense business help for creative people…
Business basics for creatives Creative Mornings is a world wide community based catalyst for city living creatives who gather for breakfast and some brain food on a monthly basis. In this talk from...
Compositing Breakdown – Understanding the hidden magic
Layer by Layer Compositing Breakdown In this great tutorial from Nick Campbell of GreyScaleGorilla, he walks through the many layers of an after effects project, demonstrating how different tricks...
Using Technicolor Cinestyle LUT in DaVinci Resolve Lite
How to apply the Technicolor Cinestyle LUT in DaVinci Resolve Lite… If you’re shooting with the Technicolor Cinestyle LUT on your HDSLR and want to apply the correct S-curve to your grade...
Interviews with film editors
DP/30 has a whole host of candid 30 minute interviews with many film editors including the legendary Michael Kahn and Thelma Schoonmaker. Here are a selection of my favourites. There is also a...