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...
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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...
Adobe Speedgrade
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...
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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