Oliver Peter’s at Digital Films has a great article (among a huge, and equally great, back catalogue) on working with Arri Alexa footage in a variety of NLE’s. Useful free downloads...
Category - Editing
Newsletters – casting wide the net.
Newsletters are a simple way to stay abreast of the latest news and tech developments, viral videos and cool new sites. Here are three of my favourites… 1. Studio Daily – If it passes by...
If you really wanted to, you would have already…
A great post from Filmmakermagazine.com about the trap of being shackled to the idea that you need any money to make a film. If you really wanted to do it, you would just get out there are do it. The...
Final Cut Pro X – The Sneak Peak
If you were as hungry as me for the best the web has to offer on Apple’s recent announcement of the new Final Cut Pro 10, then here they all are… Larry Jordan’s Blog Blow by blow...
Online Distribution Vs The Festival Circuit
Promote Your Film Online – Not at Festivals The mighty folk from shortoftheweek describe how they promoted their excellent animated opus online – and how that compared with their festival...
5+ places to learn new things…
When I don’t know how to do/fix/work-around/create/hack/solve something here are the first places I go… 1. Google – always quickest and most likely to come up with a good few...
Useful Layouts in FCP
Great little post from Walt Biscardi (don of the creativecow.net forums) on useful layouts for different tasks in fcp…
How to convert .mts/m2ts footage on a mac for free
A client has given me stacks of footage shot using the AVCHD codec. This won’t export through Mpeg Streamclip (ever faithful though it normally is) but a work around is this… 1. Drop the...
A beautiful short film
Tiny Inventions – Creative Genius!
Tiny Inventions are a creative dynamic duo called Ru and Max who do amazing things with real life materials and plenty of AE magic… Check out the film here and the making of on Red Giant TV...
A brief history of Title
IBM Documentary
A nicely styled 30 minute documentary by the legendary Errol Morris on some of the more challenging parts of IBM’s long history. (It’s also available in 1080p)
Blue Valentine – Beautiful [title] Design…
The Social Network – Cut on FCP
A podcast from digitalcontentproducer.com interviewing The Social Network’s two editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter
11 things to think about in 2011
Found this interesting site earlier this year and came back to look at this post again… stimulating stuff. Attentionomics – Marketers begin to realize the value of attention and not just reach...