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...
Category - Editing
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...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo final editorial workflow
Conforming and Compositing A Feature Digitalcontentproducer.com has a detailed article from assistant editor Tyler Nelson (who also used a similar workflow on The Social Network) describing the...
Onset dailies with DaVinci Resolve Lite (almost)
Handy blog post from Negative Spaces (via Tao of Color) on using Resolve Lite to create on set dailies, using LUTS and converting to different formats etc. The almost is that there is no embedded...
From the Cutting Room of Tariq Anwar
Tariq Anwar’s Insights on Editing Twice Oscar nominated film editor Tariq Anwar (The Kings Speech, American Beauty, The Good Shepherd) shares his insights on film editing at the Manhattan...
FCP 7 vs Premiere Pro 5.5 Timeline
Scott Simmons has written up an excellent (if Adobe subsidised) blog post comparing the Final Cut Pro 7 timeline and the Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5 timeline. There are more than a dozen useful pointers...
Color Science 101 – Color Management Webinar from THX
If you want to wrap your brain around color science and color management throughout the post production process you could do worse than to spend an hour watching this webinar from THX on the...
Digital Video Magazine
If you don’t subscribe to the free digital edition of Digital Video Magazine, you really should! This months edition was a corker with excellent articles from Oliver Peters on ARRI Alexa color...
Creativity: The beauty of cinema…
Creativity – The Beauty of Silent Cinema Trailer for ‘The Artist’ – everything that was beautiful about ‘old hollywood’…
DaVinci Resolve 8 Workshop – 2.5 hours with Colorist Patrick Inhofer
2.5 hour DaVinci Resolve Workshop Taoofcolor.com colorist Patrick Inhofer spent 2.5 hours walking through how to use DaVinci Resolve 8 at the Montreal Final Cut user group. Detailed discussion of...