Why is my final render bad quality? In Motion 4, there is a very easy way to make your exports look 100 times better instantly. It is called the ‘make it look good button’. If you...
Category - Editing
Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3
Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 Reviews… Apple’s latest update to Final Cut Pro X adds multicam editing, autosync (ie pluraleyes) and a bunch of other features that should really have been in the...
Working with multiple formats and aspect ratios
Evan Schiff – assistant editor on Mission Impossible 4 has a great run down of his workflow for working with the multiple camera formats and aspect ratios on the film. The extra tricky part is...
Free webinar – Colour Management 102 by THX
This is the second part in THX’s new webinar series providing intensely detailed and scientific information on undesrstanding all aspects of colour management, with this hour long webinar...
Advice from an ad-man: Leo Burnett animated…
Advice for advertising executives… 3 minutes for golden advice for any creative…
Press Pause Play – The Creative Pulse of the Globe
This is a free feature length documentary which essentially feels like sticking a thermometer into the creative globe and coming to grips with the result. A digital revolution that is kill off old...
Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets
If you need help remembering how fast transfer speeds are over firewire 800, or what the target bit rates are for RED-RAW or what the shortcut is for ‘add edit’ in FCP7 then look no...
What does a DIT do?
With the proliferation of file based workflows essentially becoming the norm, having a DIT (Digital Image Technician) on set to wrangle data, create dailies and provide near set colour grading...
Learning high end finishing tools…
There seems to be more and more talk floating around the web about ‘regular editors’ using high end finishing tools like Smoke, Nuke or Scratch (which also does a whole load of production...
Free stock footage and After Effects tutorials
If you need some free stock footage for your effects work and you’ve not yet checked out videocopilot.net then you’ve been missing out on a tremendous wealth of free goodies and amazing...
Audio sync slips over time?
When you run into the problem of two tracks of audio sliding out of sync over time – for example using a DSLR for your picture and Zoom H4N for your audio, it could be down to this little Final...
REDCINE-X PRO Workflow
How to conform RED raw files For a step by step tutorial on using REDCINE-X PRO to finish your Final Cut Pro edit with a roundtrip through Color to grade your RED footage, from the raw .r3d files...
Editing The Descendants
Digitalcontentproducer.com has an interesting interview with editor Kevin Trent on editing The Descendants, starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt) Kevin...
Hard drive management for video editors
How to manage your hard drive space Keeping track of what is taking up space on your hard drives (especially if you use a lot of portable drives for different clients and different projects) can be...
Editing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Editing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Oliver Peter’s has a written up great interview with Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter who were the editing team behind The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. There...