Category - Editor’s Tools

Useful tools for film and video editors

What Does an Online Editor Do?

What Does an Online Editor Do? If you’ve ever wondered what an online, or finishing, editor does these days then you’re in luck! In this post you can get an incredibly detailed look at...

How To Be a DIT – The JellyFish

How To Be a DIT – The JellyFish Edition This instalment of How To Be A DIT is focused on Sam Mestman’s Jellyfish. Sound strange? All will be explained, but the focus of this post is on...

DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Tutorial Round Up

DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Tutorial Round Up DaVinci Resolve 12.5 is now out and you should check out this post which rounds up some of the best insights and tutorials on the new features and improvements...

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 12.5

What’s New in DaVinci Resolve 12.5 The latest release of DaVinci Resolve 12.5 brings with it hundreds (250) of new features and (1000+) fixes. You can download it today as part of a public...

Affordable Colour Grading Control Surfaces

Affordable Colour Grading Control Surfaces DaVinci Resolve Control Panel If you’re looking for an affordable colour grading control surface to take your colour grading capabilities up a level...

FCPX Advanced Workflows and Tutorials

FCPX Advanced Workflows and Tutorials If you’ve already mastered the basics of FCPX, then hopefully this round up of advanced FCPX workflows and tutorials will help you take your skills up a...

Tips on Editing Documentaries in Avid

Tips on Documentary Editing in Avid If you want to learn how to edit a documentary in Avid Media Composer, then there’s few better teachers to spend time with than PBS Frontline editor Steve...

FCPX Twitter Tips

FCPX Twitter Tips Why FCPX? Easy: keywords and metadata. You try watching 135 Chuck Jones cartoons and organizing them. pic.twitter.com/sczTfBDOeF — Tony Zhou (@tonyszhou) January 8, 2016 There...

Comparing Online Video Review Tools

Online Video Review Tools Compared There are a plethora of video review services available to filmmakers today, seeking to help them collaborate on projects, gather client feedback and do a lot more...

Understanding the FCPX Magnetic Timeline

Understanding the FCPX Magnetic Timeline The magnetic timeline with FCPX is the source of much of it’s power and much of the love it or hate it reaction from editors used to a different way of...