Switching from FCP to Avid? In the quest to find a more long term solution for an editing platform I’ve been looking closely at Avid Media Composer 6. Oliver Peter’s has a very handy...
Category - Tutorials
Smoke 2013 – Demos & Tutorials
There are plenty of Smoke 2013 product demonstrations and video tutorials available showcasing all the new editorial features and post workflows possible in the new version of Autodesk Smoke. Here...
Using metadata to colour correct RAW video
Blain Brown has a handy 7 minute tutorial on adjusting the metadata on your RED raw footage, in this case inside Assimilate Scratch, to colour correct your footage to the appropriate ISO, colour...
Exporting DPX files from Color
DPX Workflow Sometimes if you are finishing your project in a professional colour grading suite, or sending plates to a vfx house they prefer to have dpx files to work from. To create these...
Compositing Visual Effects – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Visual Effects Compositing Walkthrough Eric Bever talks through some of the visual effects compositing that Digital Domain created for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at NAB 2012. FX Guide has...
Colour Grading Tips
Colour Grading Tips Lift Gamma Gain is a new forum for colorists that has some interesting discussions going on. There are areas for a vast number of colour grading programs, industry news, hardware...
Premiere Pro CS6 New Features
Video2brain.com has just released over 2 hours of free tutorials introducing all of the new features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Over 2 hours of Premiere Pro video tutorials… The course covers...
90 minutes on colour grading
Mark Spencer and Steve Martin are joined by Alexis Van Hurkman for an hour and a half on the world of colour grading, largely on DaVinci Resolve, but other applications too. Which control surface to...
Thinking about Learning Avid…
Avid Media Composer is the only piece of software (other than After Effects) that I’ve lost work by not knowing. Some post houses are all Avid and when you want to work there, you need to know...
How to view Avid MXF files without installing Avid
ProVideoCoalition have a handy post on how to view Avid .MXF files without having to install Avid. This becomes very useful when all you want to know is what’s inside that folder of confusingly...
Alexis Van Hurkman on DaVinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve Resources Alexis Van Hurkman is a colorist and DaVinci Resolve trainer. He’s here on the latest Macbreak Studio episode, giving an introduction to Resolve. You can buy his...
Baselight Plugin for FCP7
Filmlight, the UK company that make the Baselight colour grading systems recently released a plugin for Final Cut Pro that delivers all the power of Baselight inside the FCP interface, but then...
Larry Jordan FCP X 10.0.3 walkthrough
Working with FCPX 10.0.3 books and tutorials At the recent LAFCPUG meeting Larry Jordan walked through the new features of FCP X 10.0.3 and dispensed some very helpful tips on working with FCPX...
Syncing Audio in RED CINE-X Pro
How to sync audio in RED CINE-X Pro This tutorial from RED will show you how to manually and auto sync audio to your R3D files. You can download RED CINE-X Pro (beta) for free from red.com here.
Photoshop for video editors
Richard Harrington, CEO of RHED Pixel, delivers a 40 minute workshop on creating graphics for film editors, providing some useful tips and techniques when using Adobe Photoshop in the edit suite...