Nice ‘podcast’ on the shooting (and more interestingly) post for Australia. A thoughtful 10 minute piece on the evolving technical and creative post process… free on Itunes.
Category - Tutorials
Free DaVinci Resolve (Lite)
Blackmagic Design are doing the world a favour again (aside from a range of great products, releasing DaVinci Resolve for £700 was generous) with a free version of their fantastic colour grading...
Working with XDCAM and FCP7
Here is a handy link to Sony’s UK download site for all the tools you’ll need for working with Sony XDCAM and XDCAM-EX with Final Cut Pro 7. For XDCAM 1. XDCAM Browser (v1.2) 2. SxS UDF...
Working with FCPX
Here is a handy blog tracking some of the initial quirks of fcpx. See also Larry Jordan’s blog on his thoughts on sticking/switching/praising/despising FCPX. Personally I’m sticking...
Download your learning
I’m all about learning. I love learning. I don’t know anyone who will ever tell you to stop learning. When you stop learning, you get boring very quickly. Here are some links to get you...
Working with ARRI Alexa footage
Oliver Peter’s at Digital Films has a great article (among a huge, and equally great, back catalogue) on working with Arri Alexa footage in a variety of NLE’s. Useful free downloads...
Newsletters – casting wide the net.
Newsletters are a simple way to stay abreast of the latest news and tech developments, viral videos and cool new sites. Here are three of my favourites… 1. Studio Daily – If it passes by...
If you really wanted to, you would have already…
A great post from Filmmakermagazine.com about the trap of being shackled to the idea that you need any money to make a film. If you really wanted to do it, you would just get out there are do it. The...
Online Distribution Vs The Festival Circuit
Promote Your Film Online – Not at Festivals The mighty folk from shortoftheweek describe how they promoted their excellent animated opus online – and how that compared with their festival...
5+ places to learn new things…
When I don’t know how to do/fix/work-around/create/hack/solve something here are the first places I go… 1. Google – always quickest and most likely to come up with a good few...
Useful Layouts in FCP
Great little post from Walt Biscardi (don of the creativecow.net forums) on useful layouts for different tasks in fcp…
How to convert .mts/m2ts footage on a mac for free
A client has given me stacks of footage shot using the AVCHD codec. This won’t export through Mpeg Streamclip (ever faithful though it normally is) but a work around is this… 1. Drop the...
Building a business
Being freelance is the best thing in the world. You’ve got time flexibility, brand new projects all the time, networking and working with all kinds of different people and problems. But after...
400 pages of FCP goodness
The Supermag from the LAFCPUG Super meet – totally free and totally necessary!