Rear Window Compositing Breakdown Really interesting compositing work by Jeff Desom with footage taken from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 Rear Window.
Category - Editing
Baselight Plugin for FCP7
Filmlight, the UK company that make the Baselight colour grading systems recently released a plugin for Final Cut Pro that delivers all the power of Baselight inside the FCP interface, but then...
Larry Jordan FCP X 10.0.3 walkthrough
Working with FCPX 10.0.3 books and tutorials At the recent LAFCPUG meeting Larry Jordan walked through the new features of FCP X 10.0.3 and dispensed some very helpful tips on working with FCPX...
Syncing Audio in RED CINE-X Pro
How to sync audio in RED CINE-X Pro This tutorial from RED will show you how to manually and auto sync audio to your R3D files. You can download RED CINE-X Pro (beta) for free from red.com here.
Funny videos about editing
Funny Videos About Editing Conan O’Brian’s editors on FCPX and Premiere. An obvious choice?
Why you need Timecode and Reel Numbers
Hopefully this post is just for a few newer editors, fresh into the world of digital editing who need a bit of a brush up on how to edit their Canon 5D footage in a professionally organised fashion...
Photoshop for video editors
Richard Harrington, CEO of RHED Pixel, delivers a 40 minute workshop on creating graphics for film editors, providing some useful tips and techniques when using Adobe Photoshop in the edit suite...
How to set your freelance business rates
How much should I charge? Richard Harrington has a great 5 minute excerpt from his Lynda.com series Budgeting Video Projects, on how to plan and set your business rates. Taking the time to watch...
How to become a film editor
If you’re just starting out in the film business and are wondering how do you get from where you are, to where you want to be – in my case working full time as an editor and getting paid...
Setting up a Colour Grading Suite
How to set up a colour grading suite… Carey Dissmore and Steve Oakley present a very down to earth run through, of what it takes to set up a colour grading suite based on DaVinci Resolve. They...
DSLR Metadata – Using THM files…
A handy quick tip from Shane Ross of LFIHD on how to extract metadata from the .THM files on the CF cards, so you can see what the exposure, white balance, focal length, shutter speed was among many...
Edit Suite Montage
Have edit suite, will travel. I’ve been a freelance film editor for the past 7 years. In that time I’ve edited in London, Milan, Kenya, Spain and soon Sweden. I thought I’d post up...
Walter Murch on Sound Design
An hour with Walter Murch discussing Hollywood sound design…
Even more Free DaVinci Resolve tutorials
Even more Free DaVinci Resolve Tutorials Color Grading Central has four free short tutorials on colour grading in DaVinci Resolve. The first is on creating a bleached by pass look, the second on how...
Using RED Epic/Scarlet HDRx footage in DaVinci Resolve
Combining both HDR layers in DaVinci Resolve When shooting with the RED Epic or Scarlet in HDRx mode you need to know how to combine both sets of exposures to make use of the increased dynamic range...