Gotcha: Importing Layered Photoshop Files into FCP7 I was trying to bring in some graphics into FCP7 as a layered photoshop file so I could easily animate the different layers separately. But for...
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Diary of An Avid Switcher – Part 2: Wrestling The Basics
Working with Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 First of all thanks to all those who have been commenting and tweeting and helping me out while I’m trying to get to grips with working with Avid Media...
Compositing Tips for DaVinci Resolve
Compositing Tips for DaVinci Resolve Here are a few handy quick tips for creating composites using external matte and multilayer matte nodes in DaVinci Resolve. Creating a Composite in Resolve Using...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Solutions for FCP Editors
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 – Solutions for FCP Editors If you’re in the throws of making the switch from FCP7 to Avid Media Composer (or just learning Avid for the first time) and...
Colour Grading Dr. Who in Baselight
Colour Grading Dr Who – A Baselight Walkthrough In this 20 minute colour grading walk through of a full episode of Dr. Who, a BBC HD drama series, Filmlight colorist Bob Chorley demonstrates...
Dale Grahn – Colour Timing Over 200 Feature Films
Dale Grahn – Learn to Colour Time Dale Grahn was Spielberg’s color timer (the pre-digital intermediate way to colour grade your film) with over 200 feature film credits listed on imdb...
How To Be a DIT – Part 3
How To Be a DIT – Part 3 I’ve blogged a few times about how to become a DIT or a Digital Imaging Technician, bringing together the best things I can find from the internet to help those...
5 DaVinci Resolve Tutorials
5 DaVinci Resolve Tutorials Here is another round up of 5 recent DaVinci Resolve tips and tutorials that will help smooth out a few workflow kinks and make the most of this amazing free software...
Over 6 Hours of Free Colour Grading & VFX Training
6 Hours of Free Assimilate Scratch Training If you want over 6 hours of free training on professional color grading and compositing techniques and generally how to make the most Assimilate...
DaVinci Resolve Tutorial Round Up
More great DaVinci Resolve Tutorials With the recent release of DaVinci Resolve 9.1 there have been a few more great tutorials popping up on the web. Here is a round up of some of the best on offer...
FCPX 10.0.7 – Tips, Tricks & Tutorials
Editing Workflow Tips For FCPX 10.0.7 I’ve noticed quite a few great little FCPX tips and tricks posted online lately so I thought I’d round them all up into one big helpful post. Free...
Understanding Color Gamuts, Working with ACES in Resolve & More…
Three Lessons in Color Science If you want to get into some of the more technical aspects of color grading and develop an understanding of ‘some’ of what color science is and means then...
Download Free DaVinci Resolve Film Print Emulation LUTs
Free Film Print Emulation LUTs for Resolve If you’re looking to give your DaVinci Resolve grade a ‘film look’ then these free film print emulation LUTS from Juan Melara will add...
Sound Design on Star Wars, Flight & Looper
Creative Sound Design on Star Wars This is a great video featuring sound design ‘godfather’ Ben Burtt on the sound design needed to create the Star Wars universe. Ben Burtt also did the...
Avid Media Composer Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Learning Avid – A collection of useful links I’ve recently bought Avid and so have been on the look out for all the tips, tricks and tutorials I can find. Here are a whole host of the...