Life In A Day – Free on Youtube Kevin McDonald’s epic documentary created from over 4500 hours of footage uploaded to youtube by 80,000 people in 192 different countries on July 24th 2010...
Category - Editing
TV Graphics layer by layer breakdown
TV Promo Graphics – Layer by Layer Brett Morris over on Motionworks, walks through a layer by layer breakdown of his work on these text supers for a TV promo for Fast and the Furious 5. Some...
Using Redcine X Pro
Useful video tutorial on using Redcine X Pro to process Epic, Scarlett or Red One footage. Redcine X Pro is RED’s free ingest/grading program that is currently in beta. Here is another short...
Free Stereoscopic 3D Plugin for FCP7
Onsight have created a free plugin for FCP7 for managing and handling 3D files. Get all the details at FCP.co
Useful Motion Tutorials
CreativeCow.net is one of THE best resources on the net for creative professionals. Andy Neil has created some useful Motion 4 tutorials which are worth a watch because more than just explaining...
Walter Murch – In Conversation
Walter Murch In Conversation Walter Murch (one of the most famous editors of all time?) speaking at the recent Boston Supermeet… An interesting excerpt from artist Josh Melnick’s new book...
DaVinci Resolve & Alexis Van Hurkman at Boston Supermeet
Great presentation from Alexis Van Hurkman at the Boston Supermeet. He walks through the power of DaVinci Resolve’s interpretability between NLEs and how to make quick looks from its new...
Creating Slow Motion with Cinema Tools
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.
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...