How to roundtrip from FCP to Resolve Warren Eagles (icolorist) shares a quick color grading tutorial on how to roundtrip your edited timeline from Final Cut Pro 7 to DaVinci Resolve and back again...
Category - Tutorials
The basics of on-screen typography
Video2brain (a learning company who provided the free tutorials with my wacom tablet – US) have many useful, straightforward tutorials on a plethora of subjects. Here is 3 minutes on the basics...
Understanding the Activity Monitor
If your system is slowing down, your internet seems slow or your edit keeps dropping frames, chances are a quick look at the activity monitor might help you figure out what’s going on…...
How To Use a Waveform Monitor
How to correctly use a Waveform Monitor Knowing how to correctly use a waveform monitor is an essential skill to master for accurate colour grading. Aside from it being one long advert for Tektronix...
Creating graded dailies as proxy files with DaVinci Resolve from Log footage
DITspot.com looks like a fairly new, yet promising, DIT (Digital Image Technician) website (it only has three articles so far) but they are already excellent sources of DIT info. How to create...
DaVinci Resolve Color Grading Tutorials
DaVinci Resolve color grading tutorials are popping up all over vimeo and Presynkt Productions in Australia have plenty a few good ones coming online. How to apply a LUT in DaVinci Resolve This 10...
Importing DSLR footage into Final Cut Pro
The most important thing about importing DSLR footage into Final Cut Pro 7 is making sure it has timecode and reel numbers. Both of these will allow for proper media management throughout post...
FCP 7 Media Manager Not Working? – Gotcha
Why isn’t the FCP7 Media Manager working? Final Cut Pro’s media manager is an extremely useful tool, when it works. But often you don’t know that its not going to work properly...
Onset dailies with DaVinci Resolve Lite (almost)
Handy blog post from Negative Spaces (via Tao of Color) on using Resolve Lite to create on set dailies, using LUTS and converting to different formats etc. The almost is that there is no embedded...
FCP 7 vs Premiere Pro 5.5 Timeline
Scott Simmons has written up an excellent (if Adobe subsidised) blog post comparing the Final Cut Pro 7 timeline and the Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5 timeline. There are more than a dozen useful pointers...
Color Science 101 – Color Management Webinar from THX
If you want to wrap your brain around color science and color management throughout the post production process you could do worse than to spend an hour watching this webinar from THX on the...
Digital Video Magazine
If you don’t subscribe to the free digital edition of Digital Video Magazine, you really should! This months edition was a corker with excellent articles from Oliver Peters on ARRI Alexa color...
DaVinci Resolve 8 Workshop – 2.5 hours with Colorist Patrick Inhofer
2.5 hour DaVinci Resolve Workshop Taoofcolor.com colorist Patrick Inhofer spent 2.5 hours walking through how to use DaVinci Resolve 8 at the Montreal Final Cut user group. Detailed discussion of...
TV Graphics layer by layer breakdown
TV Promo Graphics – Layer by Layer Brett Morris over on Motionworks, walks through a layer by layer breakdown of his work on these text supers for a TV promo for Fast and the Furious 5. Some...
Useful Motion Tutorials
CreativeCow.net is one of THE best resources on the net for creative professionals. Andy Neil has created some useful Motion 4 tutorials which are worth a watch because more than just explaining...