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...
Category - Editing
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...
Ink & Paper
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...
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...