Great Student Short Documentary This is a fantastically well made short documentary from Ben Proudfoot, a student at the University of Southern California. He captures the characters, jeopardy and...
Category - Editing
Free FCPX Effects – Animation Curve Controls
Using FCPX Effects Alex Gollner of Alex4d has some great free FCPX effects for better animation control through curves controls in FCP X. His blog post also has a full run down of how to make the...
XML Roundtrip from FCP to Resolve and back…
How to roundtrip from FCP to Resolve Warren Eagles (icolorist) shares a quick color grading tutorial on how to roundtrip your edited timeline from Final Cut Pro 7 to DaVinci Resolve and back again...
The basics of on-screen typography
Video2brain (a learning company who provided the free tutorials with my wacom tablet – US) have many useful, straightforward tutorials on a plethora of subjects. Here is 3 minutes on the basics...
Understanding the Activity Monitor
If your system is slowing down, your internet seems slow or your edit keeps dropping frames, chances are a quick look at the activity monitor might help you figure out what’s going on…...
Augmented Reality Cinema App
Augmented Reality Cinema App See the films, shot in your current location around town….
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Visual Effects Breakdown
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – VFX Fxguide.com (probably the best place to go for insider sfx info on the net) has an interesting visual effects breakdown on the digital effects behind David...
Understanding Creativity
Understanding the process of creativity If you’ve not seen Kirby Ferguson’s stimulating and entertaining intellectual cinematic mash-ups then where have you been? Everything is a remix...
How To Use a Waveform Monitor
How to correctly use a Waveform Monitor Knowing how to correctly use a waveform monitor is an essential skill to master for accurate colour grading. Aside from it being one long advert for Tektronix...
Creating graded dailies as proxy files with DaVinci Resolve from Log footage
DITspot.com looks like a fairly new, yet promising, DIT (Digital Image Technician) website (it only has three articles so far) but they are already excellent sources of DIT info. How to create...
DaVinci Resolve Color Grading Tutorials
DaVinci Resolve color grading tutorials are popping up all over vimeo and Presynkt Productions in Australia have plenty a few good ones coming online. How to apply a LUT in DaVinci Resolve This 10...
Importing DSLR footage into Final Cut Pro
The most important thing about importing DSLR footage into Final Cut Pro 7 is making sure it has timecode and reel numbers. Both of these will allow for proper media management throughout post...
FCP 7 Media Manager Not Working? – Gotcha
Why isn’t the FCP7 Media Manager working? Final Cut Pro’s media manager is an extremely useful tool, when it works. But often you don’t know that its not going to work properly...
Understanding 4K Cinema
What is 4k? Oliver Peters has written up an excellent introduction to understanding the basic concepts of 4K cinema, from the underlying sensor technology, the different sorts of cameras (such as the...
Invest in your creative career – The Importance of Ergonomics
Ergonomics for Creatives – a Life Long Career Investment My brother is an animator and pointed me to this great video on the importance of ergonomics in ensuring you’ll still be...