Creating Digital Cinema Packages for free Digital Cinema Packages are the gateway to digital cinema projection and distribution and is a specifically designed set of video, audio and metadata files...
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Fighting Sex Trafficking With Filmmaking
Editing With A Cause – Taken Photodocumentary Taken, a photodocumentary ebook, launched last week and available on iPads everywhere from the ibooks store, is out to help fight sex trafficking...
How to install an SSD drive in a MacBook Pro with a clean install of Mac OS X
Upgrading your edit suite – How to install an SSD & clean install of Mountain Lion I’ve decided to upgrade my Macbook Pro with a brand new SSD drive, along with a fresh install and...
How to plan production and post properly
How to properly plan your production and post When planning the technical ins and outs of your film production and post workflow its important to actually have a plan for the whole process before you...
Is this your next NLE? Adobe Premiere Pro Round Up
Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorial Round Up Adobe Premiere Pro is seemingly successfully angling its way into the must have next NLE for many editors and production companies. Given that Premiere Pro CC...
DaVinci Resolve 10 & Tutorial Round Up
DaVinci Resolve 10 & Grading Tutorials In the aftermath of NAB 2013 I collected together everything I could find on DaVinci Resolve 10, including several demos and interviews so do check out that...
Working with C300 LOG Footage in FCP7 – Plus Free LUTS
Working with C300 LOG Footage in FCP7 The other day I had to work with some C300 LOG footage in FCP7 and needed to quickly apply a LUT that would show the client what it might actually look like in...
Matching Film Stocks with Film Convert
Matching Film Stocks with Film Convert If you’re looking for a simple way to match your digital footage to what you might get out of a film camera then Film Convert is a New Zealand based...
Layered Photoshop File Won’t Import into FCP7?
Gotcha: Importing Layered Photoshop Files into FCP7 I was trying to bring in some graphics into FCP7 as a layered photoshop file so I could easily animate the different layers separately. But for...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Solutions for FCP Editors
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 – Solutions for FCP Editors If you’re in the throws of making the switch from FCP7 to Avid Media Composer (or just learning Avid for the first time) and...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Part 1: Humble Beginnings
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5 I bought Avid over Christmas, making the most of Videoguys crossgrade deal, and finally installed Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 in the new year. The download and install...
Indie Feature Film School – How to fix it in post
Editorial & VFX tricks to fix your Indie feature in post production Editor/Director Ken Simpson has put together an hour long look at the raw, unvarnished truth about fixing your indie feature...
Film grain and light leaks
How to get a film look Everyone shooting digital wants their stuff to look like film. (Why not shoot film then?!) There are several footage packages that allow you to overlay real or simulated film...
How to Fix Red Exclamation Mark Error in FCP7 Log & Transfer
Solving Log and Transfer Error – The Red Exclamation Problem This particular FCP7 quirk can be frustratingly mysterious, yet the solution is incredibly simple. It happened to me the other...
Don’t like FCPX? Here’s where you can still buy Final Cut Pro 7
How to find the old version of Final Cut Studio 3 Apple updated FCPX to 10.0.7 today with a few bug fixes and it made me think how far it still has to go. I’ve been editing on FCP7 for long...