Over 170 tips, tricks and techniques for FCP7 Digital Heaven (a UK company that also runs finalcutters.com) has just added Final Cut Pro Killer Secrets (formerly a £9.99 ebook) to their selection of...
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Smoke 2013 Tutorials and Tips
Learning how to use Autodesk Smoke 2013 Autodesk Smoke 2013 is now available (download it here) so to learn how to get started with it, check out this extensive round up of tutorials, tips and...
DaVinci Resolve 9 video demo
DaVinci Resolve 9 – New Features Alexis Van Hurkman delivered a 20minute presentation to the Montreal Final Cut User Group after NAB 2012. Alexis talks through the new user interface and some...
Getting started using LUTS
Using LUT Buddy from Red Giant LUT Buddy is one of Red Giants free tools (along with Colorista Free) and allows you to… Use LUT Buddy with host apps like After Effects and FCP to output LUTs...
Learning how to use Cinema Tools
Understanding what Cinema Tools does… Back in the days of Final Cut Studio 3, the most ‘legacy’ and often overlooked program was Cinema Tools. I often use Cinema Tools to conform...
Useful tools for film editors
Here are some really useful tools, tips and resources for film editors… File management workflow tips Dpbestflow.org has a huge range of really useful info on a vast range of digital video...
DaVinci Resolve Grading Tips
Professional grading tips for DaVinci Resolve Warren Eagles from the ICA has 5 tips in 5 minutes for DaVinci Resolve covering leaving the highlight on, polygon softness, how to zoom and move the...
Final Cut Pro X Tutorials
Learning Final Cut Pro X Given that you can download a free trial of FCPX there’s no reason not to give it a go. If you want a helping hand in getting started there are plenty of resources...
Adobe Audition and Prelude CS6 first looks
Getting started with Audition & Prelude CS6 Larry Jordan has a couple of lengthy blog posts on his thoughts on using Audition and Prelude in a post production workflow. He comments on many of the...
Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Video Demonstration Al Mooney delivered a 1 hour presentation of the new Premiere Pro CS6 at the latest LACPUG meet up, showcasing how it fits into the Adobe ecosystem and some...
How to make all fonts available in FCP7
How to access a full font family in FCP7 There is a bug in FCP7 which means that when you install a font family all of the weights and variances don’t appear in the Final Cut Pro text editor...
Premiere Pro CS6 free video tutorials
Learning Premiere Pro CS6 CreativeCow has an extensive collection of short video tutorials from Andrew Davis teaching you the basics of how to edit in the new Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. The principles...
Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error
Fixing Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error Every now and then a mysterious error will appear whilst trying to compress a file with Apple’s Compressor 3.5. The mysterious error message just...
Working with Arri Alexa footage in post
Understanding Arri Alexa frame rates I was working on a project recently that was shooting on the Arri Alexa at multiple frame rates – 30fps and 60fps. As I was on set doing the card copying...
Adobe Speedgrade
First look at Adobe Speedgrade Speedgrade is Adobe’s latest acquisition to its production premium line up, giving its suite of products a dedicated grading tool. Nikolai Waldman on Colorgrader...