With the tumultuous initial release of Final Cut Pro X, Apple completely changed the way that FCP manages the media and project settings and where it stores the media files, back up files, transcodes...
Category - Editing
DaVinci Resolve Lite – more tutorials
Here is a decent 15 minute tutorial that will help you get started with using DaVinci Resolve Lite. Dan walks through how to get set up, bring in media and work with R3D footage. More free DaVinici...
Tips for Successful Freelancing
AEtutsplus.com has 10 tips on becoming a successful freelancer, my favourite if you’re just starting out is the idea of writing in depth proposals to describe what your imagination can reach...
Film vs Digital
Film Vs Digital Here is the trailer for an interesting new documentary, Side by Side – The Science, Art and Impact of Digital Cinema, featuring (of all people!) Keanu Reeves, on the future of...
Walter Murch in Conversation
An interesting excerpt from artist Josh Melnick’s new book called The 8 Train, in which he chats to film editor Walter Murch about blinking, slow motion and flicker fusion points.
Free blur effects for FCPX
Alex Gollner of Alex4d has some more free Final Cut Pro X effects available to download, this time focusing on creating different styles of blur effect. Download seven free blur effects and more...
What Do Film Editors Actually Do?
What Do Film Editors Actually Do? A funny but true story in pictures from Alan Capriles blog, a New York based film editor. UPDATE – For a much more complete look at what a film editor actually...
Motion 4 Gotcha – Getting the best render settings
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...
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...