First look at Adobe Speedgrade Speedgrade is Adobe’s latest acquisition to its production premium line up, giving its suite of products a dedicated grading tool. Nikolai Waldman on Colorgrader...
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Todailes – Digital Dailies Ipad App
Todailies – Ipad App LightIron Digital have released a $9.99 ipad app called Todailies which when coupled with a free laptop app called LightIron Server lets you wirelessly stream dailies to...
Edit Suite Design
Designing your own edit suite Oliver Peters has a great blog post with some tips on designing your own edit suite covering everything from un-interruptable power supplies to acoustics and how to best...
Creating production dailies with Scratch Lab
If you’re interested in using Scratch Lab for providing production dailies check out this 30 minute video tutorial from Michael Forrest of Assimilate. The new metadata tools in Scratch Lab 6.1...
Useful resources for learning Avid
Useful Resources when Switching to Avid Scott Simmons from the Pro Video Coalition gave a seminar at NAB 2012 where he taught the essentials for editors migrating to Avid Media Composer. He followed...
Editing in Stereoscopic 3D
How to edit stereoscopic 3D Gordon Burkell from AOTG.com has a fantastic article introducing some key concepts to be understood when editing in stereoscopic 3D over on masteringfilm.com. Cutting in...
Editing Moonrise Kingdom
Editing Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom Andrew Weisblum has edited for Wes Anderson’s last two films (Fantastic Mr Fox and The Darjeeling Limited) as well as for Darren Aronofsky (The...
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Learning Avid
Switching from FCP to Avid? In the quest to find a more long term solution for an editing platform I’ve been looking closely at Avid Media Composer 6. Oliver Peter’s has a very handy...
Smoke 2013 – Demos & Tutorials
There are plenty of Smoke 2013 product demonstrations and video tutorials available showcasing all the new editorial features and post workflows possible in the new version of Autodesk Smoke. Here...
Using metadata to colour correct RAW video
Blain Brown has a handy 7 minute tutorial on adjusting the metadata on your RED raw footage, in this case inside Assimilate Scratch, to colour correct your footage to the appropriate ISO, colour...
The Art of Film & TV Title Design
PBS Off Book short doc on the art of film and tv title design featuring three of the best in the business discussing some of their most famous titles; Mad Men, Blue Valentine and Zombieland. Watch...
Exporting DPX files from Color
DPX Workflow Sometimes if you are finishing your project in a professional colour grading suite, or sending plates to a vfx house they prefer to have dpx files to work from. To create these...
Compositing Visual Effects – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Visual Effects Compositing Walkthrough Eric Bever talks through some of the visual effects compositing that Digital Domain created for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at NAB 2012. FX Guide has...
Colour Grading Tips
Colour Grading Tips Lift Gamma Gain is a new forum for colorists that has some interesting discussions going on. There are areas for a vast number of colour grading programs, industry news, hardware...