Handy blog post from Paul Joy on conforming 50fps footage to 25fps using cinema tools. Simple video tutorials but useful if you’ve not done it before.
Category - Editing
Post Haste v2 – Free Tool
Post Haste, from Digital Rebellion, is a free time saving tool for setting up template folder structures to streamline your post production workflow.
Saul Bass on making money or art…
The legendary Saul Bass was profiled in Brainpickings this week… here he is advising young creatives on how to handle money, beauty, and clients. Ultimately who are you working for? Continuing...
Learning Lightworks
Lightworks – the free open source NLE, is coming soon to the mac on December 19th. If you’ve not signed up to the forum, you should, its a thriving community of tips, tricks and solutions...
Automatic Duck – Free Tools
With Automatic Duck being bought by Adobe (and soon to be integrated into the next release) Automatic Duck have released its suite of tools for frees so snap them up while you can. They’re the...
Understanding typography in 3 minutes
For a quick grasp of the basics of decent typography, spare 3 minutes for this kitsch video from Veer. A good example of creating ‘free’ content that teaches whilst selling.
Serious Play
Legendary designer Paula Scher shares highlights from her career, and the moments she hit what she calls ‘Serious Play’. Inspiring stuff on the importance of being ‘utterly...
Best free editing tools on the web…
Michael Cinquin has created some of the most useful free editing tools around. They’re amazing because they do obscure but vital things, really well. They’re also free. They’re a...
Everything that’s brilliant about cinema…
Layer disappears when rendered or exported?
Just encountered this little bug in FCP7 where I was creating a 4 way split screen and added some black bars to the horizontal and vertical crossing points to neaten up the edges. When un-rendered...
Davinci Resolve Tips
Warren Eagles from the ICA (the International Colorist Academy) has some really good tips for Davinci Resolve on his vimeo channel.
Editing Documentaries with Scorcese
Studio daily have a short but interesting Q&A with editor David Tedeschi on what its like to work with Martin Scorcese on his numerous documentary films. Read all about it here.
Is this the future?
Adobe Premiere Pro CC – The Future of NLEs? Personally I’m sticking with FCP7 and FCS 3 for the moment – its what I have, it works just fine for me now. Been looking into the...
Colour grading Cowboys & Aliens
Fxguide has a brilliant podcast with Steven Scott, colorist of many top features like Cowboys & Aliens, Captain America, Tree of Life, Iron Man 2, Jarhead to name just a few… He talks about...
Free FCP X and helpful guide for FCP7 editors…
Apple released FCP X 1.01 today. A few helpful updates, but for me FCP 7, still isn’t broken, so why ‘fix’ it in a half-baked way. But you can get your hands on 30 day free trial to...