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...
Category - Tutorials
Colour grading a TV commercial using Assimilate Scratch
Freelance colorist Andreas Brueckl has some great tutorials for colour grading using Assimilate Scratch. This whirlwind tutorial reveals the process he used for a TV commercial which involved a lot...
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...
DaVinci Resolve Lite – more tutorials
Here is a decent 15 minute tutorial that will help you get started with using DaVinci Resolve Lite. Dan walks through how to get set up, bring in media and work with R3D footage. More free DaVinici...
Tips for Successful Freelancing
AEtutsplus.com has 10 tips on becoming a successful freelancer, my favourite if you’re just starting out is the idea of writing in depth proposals to describe what your imagination can reach...
Free blur effects for FCPX
Alex Gollner of Alex4d has some more free Final Cut Pro X effects available to download, this time focusing on creating different styles of blur effect. Download seven free blur effects and more...
Motion 4 Gotcha – Getting the best render settings
Why is my final render bad quality? In Motion 4, there is a very easy way to make your exports look 100 times better instantly. It is called the ‘make it look good button’. If you...
Free webinar – Colour Management 102 by THX
This is the second part in THX’s new webinar series providing intensely detailed and scientific information on undesrstanding all aspects of colour management, with this hour long webinar...
What does a DIT do?
With the proliferation of file based workflows essentially becoming the norm, having a DIT (Digital Image Technician) on set to wrangle data, create dailies and provide near set colour grading...
Learning high end finishing tools…
There seems to be more and more talk floating around the web about ‘regular editors’ using high end finishing tools like Smoke, Nuke or Scratch (which also does a whole load of production...
Free stock footage and After Effects tutorials
If you need some free stock footage for your effects work and you’ve not yet checked out videocopilot.net then you’ve been missing out on a tremendous wealth of free goodies and amazing...
Audio sync slips over time?
When you run into the problem of two tracks of audio sliding out of sync over time – for example using a DSLR for your picture and Zoom H4N for your audio, it could be down to this little Final...
REDCINE-X PRO Workflow
How to conform RED raw files For a step by step tutorial on using REDCINE-X PRO to finish your Final Cut Pro edit with a roundtrip through Color to grade your RED footage, from the raw .r3d files...
Hard drive management for video editors
How to manage your hard drive space Keeping track of what is taking up space on your hard drives (especially if you use a lot of portable drives for different clients and different projects) can be...
Free FCPX Effects – Animation Curve Controls
Using FCPX Effects Alex Gollner of Alex4d has some great free FCPX effects for better animation control through curves controls in FCP X. His blog post also has a full run down of how to make the...