Improve your Colour Grading – Professional Tips Steve Hullfish gave this half hour presentation to the Editors Lounge on how to get the best out of your edit with simple but effective colour...
Category - Tutorials
Film grain and light leaks
How to get a film look Everyone shooting digital wants their stuff to look like film. (Why not shoot film then?!) There are several footage packages that allow you to overlay real or simulated film...
How to Fix Red Exclamation Mark Error in FCP7 Log & Transfer
Solving Log and Transfer Error – The Red Exclamation Problem This particular FCP7 quirk can be frustratingly mysterious, yet the solution is incredibly simple. It happened to me the other...
Getting your project into Resolve v9
Importing your edit into DaVinci Resolve If you’re looking for a one stop place to find out how to import your project into DaVinci Resolve this quick post should get you in and out in any NLE...
Comparing Final Cut Pro X vs Premiere Pro CS6
Which is better? FCPX or Premiere? No Film School posted a write up about this 45 minute presentation from Ric Lanciotti of the The Pacific Northwest College of Art. Its an in depth video with point...
How To Fix FCP7 Out of Memory Error
Solving Out of Memory Error in FCP7 The out of memory error in final cut pro 7 certainly is mysterious and very frustrating. I had this error today while working on a project with a lot of large jpg...
Free Final Cut Pro X Grading Tutorials
15 Free Color Grading Tutorials FCP.co posted a link to the first 5 of 15 free tutorials from Color Grading Central. If you want to see all 15 short tutorials on everything from creating looks to...
Dealing with difficult clients
How to deal with difficult clients I’ll be the first to admit I like laughing at the silly things ‘clients’ say and on the internet you don’t have to look very far for plenty...
Editing Tips from the Editor of The Amazing Spiderman
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has added two more tutorials to his blog one (above) on how to do basic rotoscoping in order...
Colour Grading Workflows
Resolve 9 R3D Grading Workflow Markus Wellguny shares his dailies, editorial and final conform workflow in his guest post on Ninofilm.net. If you’re about to begin work on a R3D project and...
How to become an Assistant Film Editor
How to become an Assistant Film Editor If you’re interested in learning how to become an assistant editor then there are quite a few resources out there to help you get started, or at least...
Grading & Finishing Commercials
Creative DI in Commercials Studio Daily and Assimilate hosted this hour long webinar with Emery Wells, CEO & Founder of Katabatic, who walks through his colour grading, compositing and finishing...
Understanding DCP – Digital Cinema Package
What is DCP and why is it the future? Digital Cinema Package’s are the future of cinema projection (sadly – I love film!) but if you’re not up to scratch yet on what it is, how it...
DaVinci Resolve 9 Keyboard Shortcuts
Resolve 9 Keyboard Shortcut Cheatsheets For a handy list of keyboard shortcuts for DaVinci Resolve 9 check out these free downloads. Mathieu Marano of Ilovehue.net has created these free keyboard...
Tapeless Workflow – Doing all the right things
Tapeless Workflow for Beginners Shane Ross of Little Frog in HD delivers a concise and complete workflow tutorial on how to work with tapeless media in FCP 7. This is well worth a watch for any...