Great presentation from Alexis Van Hurkman at the Boston Supermeet. He walks through the power of DaVinci Resolve’s interpretability between NLEs and how to make quick looks from its new...
Category - Tutorials
Creating Slow Motion with Cinema Tools
Handy blog post from Paul Joy on conforming 50fps footage to 25fps using cinema tools. Simple video tutorials but useful if you’ve not done it before.
Learning Lightworks
Lightworks – the free open source NLE, is coming soon to the mac on December 19th. If you’ve not signed up to the forum, you should, its a thriving community of tips, tricks and solutions...
Understanding typography in 3 minutes
For a quick grasp of the basics of decent typography, spare 3 minutes for this kitsch video from Veer. A good example of creating ‘free’ content that teaches whilst selling.
Best free editing tools on the web…
Michael Cinquin has created some of the most useful free editing tools around. They’re amazing because they do obscure but vital things, really well. They’re also free. They’re a...
Layer disappears when rendered or exported?
Just encountered this little bug in FCP7 where I was creating a 4 way split screen and added some black bars to the horizontal and vertical crossing points to neaten up the edges. When un-rendered...
Davinci Resolve Tips
Warren Eagles from the ICA (the International Colorist Academy) has some really good tips for Davinci Resolve on his vimeo channel.
Free FCP X and helpful guide for FCP7 editors…
Apple released FCP X 1.01 today. A few helpful updates, but for me FCP 7, still isn’t broken, so why ‘fix’ it in a half-baked way. But you can get your hands on 30 day free trial to...
RED Thunderbolt Workflow
This is a really interesting little video from IBC 2011 demo-ing R3D’s new thunderbolt enabled workflow. Basically a 15′ MBP, a Lacie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt drive and a ‘yet...
How to use Twixtor
Twixtor is a cool plugin for a variety of NLE’s and post programs that ”intelligently slows down, speeds up or changes the frame rate of your image sequences”. Basically it makes...
FCPX Tips and Tricks – Macbreak Studio
Working in FCPX If you’ve got a spare hour and a half the latest podcast from pixel corps/macbreak studio is well worth the time to discover some of the day-to-day work arounds and hidden...
Exporting multi-track (split) audio files…
A simple but useful tutorial from editor Shane Ross on how to export multi-track or split-audio from FCP7.
Getting started with DaVinci Resolve Lite
Extremely useful short tutorial from Warren Eagles and the ICA about getting Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve Lite up and running…
Pay Me.
Another excellent and candid talk from the San Francisco Creative Mornings outfit. Mike Monterio shares his insights on making sure you get paid. Essentially he talks about ‘lawyering up’...
XML exchange between FCP and Premiere Pro CS 5
How To XML Exchange between FCP and Premiere Pro Handy little tutorial from animotion.nl on moving sequences between FCP and Premiere.