Another excellent and candid talk from the San Francisco Creative Mornings outfit. Mike Monterio shares his insights on making sure you get paid. Essentially he talks about ‘lawyering up’...
Category - Editing
XML exchange between FCP and Premiere Pro CS 5
How To XML Exchange between FCP and Premiere Pro Handy little tutorial from animotion.nl on moving sequences between FCP and Premiere.
5DtoRGB v1.5 – Free tool for HDSLR workflow…
Rarevision’s 5DtoRGB is a conversion tool to take your HDSLR footage out of its native format and into an edit friendly one. It does this without the quicktime based idiosyncrasies of gamma...
How to negotiate
Listening to this entertaining and insightful talk by Owen Darbishire, from the University of Oxford’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will help you make more money. Or ast least...
Harry Potter Colorist on FXpodcast
Fxguide’s podcast features an incredibly in depth interview with Peter Doyle, Senior Supervising colorist on Harry Potter 7 part 2 (he also worked on all three Lord of the Rings films and King...
Free Film – Sita Sings The Blues
Sita Sings The Blues is an epic animation project by Nina Paley, distributed under a creative commons license and freely available on the net. It took her three years to animate the whole thing in...
Actually editing with FCPX
Three great videos from Michael Wohl from the LAFCPUG. Funny and informative and very much nuts and bolts of real world editing with FCPX. Well worth making 45 minutes if you’re starting out...
100 FCPX Questions Answered
100 Common FCPX Questions Answered Great post from the provideocoalition detailing 100 answers to common FCPX questions.
Baz Luhrman & his editors on Australia post…
Nice ‘podcast’ on the shooting (and more interestingly) post for Australia. A thoughtful 10 minute piece on the evolving technical and creative post process… free on Itunes.
Free DaVinci Resolve (Lite)
Blackmagic Design are doing the world a favour again (aside from a range of great products, releasing DaVinci Resolve for £700 was generous) with a free version of their fantastic colour grading...
Working with XDCAM and FCP7
Here is a handy link to Sony’s UK download site for all the tools you’ll need for working with Sony XDCAM and XDCAM-EX with Final Cut Pro 7. For XDCAM 1. XDCAM Browser (v1.2) 2. SxS UDF...
Working with FCPX
Here is a handy blog tracking some of the initial quirks of fcpx. See also Larry Jordan’s blog on his thoughts on sticking/switching/praising/despising FCPX. Personally I’m sticking...
Audio Explosion
Resonance is 11 minutes of animated audio exploration combining the creativity and talent of 20 international animators and 11 of ‘the best sound design studios’ around. My personal...
How to make your showreel great…
Make it like my friend Neil Edwards, who is the best editor I know and has a brilliant showreel for his shooting skills. This showreel is not only the funniest one I’ve seen but a great sales...
Download your learning
I’m all about learning. I love learning. I don’t know anyone who will ever tell you to stop learning. When you stop learning, you get boring very quickly. Here are some links to get you...