Lightworks Opensource Video Editing Lightworks from Editshare is the only free open source video editing software that can really compete with Avid, FCP or Premiere Pro. The Windows version is now...
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What do Visual FX editors do?
A VFX editors job…. The Editors Guild has a decent write up of two seminars given by Scott Anderson VFX editor on Gladiator and many other big hollywood features, where he shared his insights...
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects
Avengers Assemble Visual Effects Design Cargo Collective has some great images from the design team that created the displays and user interfaces in The Avengers Assemble. You can view them all here...
Adobe Audition and Prelude CS6 first looks
Getting started with Audition & Prelude CS6 Larry Jordan has a couple of lengthy blog posts on his thoughts on using Audition and Prelude in a post production workflow. He comments on many of the...
Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Video Demonstration Al Mooney delivered a 1 hour presentation of the new Premiere Pro CS6 at the latest LACPUG meet up, showcasing how it fits into the Adobe ecosystem and some...
Essential Ergonomics
Ergonomics for film editors Taking note of your ergonomic habits is essential for preserving your health for a life long career, especially if you are frequently sitting in a chair, at a desk 8 hours...
Hugo: Behind the scenes
This cool video from Studiodaily is what you get when you stick a small HD camera on the top of a steadicam rig for the final shot of Martin Scorcese’s Hugo.
How to make all fonts available in FCP7
How to access a full font family in FCP7 There is a bug in FCP7 which means that when you install a font family all of the weights and variances don’t appear in the Final Cut Pro text editor...
Ghost Recon Alpha – 25 minute action short
Ghost Recon Alpha – 25 min action thriller Blockbuster video game releases like Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Alpha often make more money than a lot of hollywood blockbusters. Hence the scale...
Ken Burns on Storytelling
The Craft of Storytelling This is a wonderful 5 minute documentary featuring Ken Burns (famous for the moving photograph effective in documentary filmmaking) talking about the craft in storytelling...
Premiere Pro CS6 free video tutorials
Learning Premiere Pro CS6 CreativeCow has an extensive collection of short video tutorials from Andrew Davis teaching you the basics of how to edit in the new Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. The principles...
How to be a DIT
How to become a DIT If you want to learn how to become a DIT or are wondering what it takes to be one then check out this creative cow article by Von Thomas, an LA based DIT (Digital Image...
The Avengers Sound Design
Sound Design on The Avengers Michael Coleman of the Soundworks Collection has several interesting behind the scenes featurettes on the sound design and music production of many the latest Hollywood...
Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error
Fixing Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error Every now and then a mysterious error will appear whilst trying to compress a file with Apple’s Compressor 3.5. The mysterious error message just...
Working with Arri Alexa footage in post
Understanding Arri Alexa frame rates I was working on a project recently that was shooting on the Arri Alexa at multiple frame rates – 30fps and 60fps. As I was on set doing the card copying...