Category - Tutorials

How to set your freelance business rates

How much should I charge? Richard Harrington has a great 5 minute excerpt from his Lynda.com series Budgeting Video Projects,  on how to plan and set your business rates. Taking the time to watch...

How to become a film editor

If you’re just starting out in the film business and are wondering how do you get from where you are, to where you want to be – in my case working full time as an editor and getting paid...

Setting up a Colour Grading Suite

How to set up a colour grading suite… Carey Dissmore and Steve Oakley present a very down to earth run through, of what it takes to set up a colour grading suite based on DaVinci Resolve. They...

Even more Free DaVinci Resolve tutorials

Even more Free DaVinci Resolve Tutorials Color Grading Central has four free short tutorials on colour grading in DaVinci Resolve. The first is on creating a bleached by pass look, the second on how...

Color Grading Techniques

Learning Color Grading Techniques Photoshop tutorials abound on the internet and some of the techniques applied to grading still photography can be easily utilised in a film grading suite. Sites like...

Which version of XML should I use?

Using XML to transfer in/out of FCP A quick reference for which version of XML to use when transfering between FCP project file versions: XML / FCP version Compatibility Use XML version 1 for going...

2 hours of Final Cut Pro X Tips

Managing FCPX events and projects… Mark Spencer and Steve Martin from Ripple Training talk through the latest features and updates in FCP X 10.0.3, including relinking media, green screening...

Understanding Media Management in FCP X

With the tumultuous initial release of Final Cut Pro X, Apple completely changed the way that FCP manages the media and project settings and where it stores the media files, back up files, transcodes...