Category - Editor’s Tools

Useful tools for film and video editors

Christmas Gifts For Film Editors

Christmas Gifts For Film Editors Christmas is the season for giving thanks and sharing the love, and who better to thank than your hardworking, bleary-eyed, faithful editor. The one who has cut you...

Mixing Light – A Year in Review

Mixing Light Colorist Training – In Review It’s been over a year since my initial review of Mixing Light.com, the professional colorist training site which delivers weekly insights to a...

Feature Film Workflows

Feature Film Workflows There is a certain feeling of trepidation that is experienced in the heart of every editor when they take on a project that is bigger and more complex than anything...

Setting up an Amazon Fire Tablet for Video

Using the Amazon Fire as a Video Training Tablet   So… I bought an Amazon Fire Tablet. You know, the tablet that’s only £50/$50. Why did I do that when I already own an iPad? In...

4K Video Editing Monitors

4K Monitors for Film Editing Last updated: July 2022 Should you buy a 4K computer monitor for video editing? That’s the question I’m currently asking myself as I look to buy a new monitor...

How To Be A DIT – Part 15

How To Be A DIT – Part 15 It’s been a while since my last How To Be a DIT post, and if you’re new to this series you might want to check out this post that brings serves as a...

Getting Started With Fusion 8

Getting Started With Fusion 8 Fusion, the compositing and visual effects software, recently acquired from Eyeon by Blackmagic Design, is available as a free download under a beta release, for both...

Tips for Better Editing in Premiere Pro

Tips for Better Editing in Premiere Pro In this 30 minute webinar editor Richard Harrington shares a ton of tips for better editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, from which you are guaranteed to...

The Beginners Guide to Learning FCPX

The Beginners Guide to Learning FCPX If you want to learn Final Cut Pro X, either as an experienced editor giving it a try from another NLE, or as a complete newbie, this round up of resources will...

Tutorials for DaVinci Resolve 12 Colorists

Tutorials for DaVinci Resolve 12 Colorists Davinci Resolve 12 and Studio editions are now out of public beta and jam packed with features, fixes and more. You can download them for free for Windows...

iPad Apps For Film Editors

iPad Apps for Film Editors As a editor it was essential you bought an iPad, you know for “work stuff.” Now that you’ve got iPad just lying around, isn’t it about time you did...

The Best Studio Monitors For An Edit Suite

The Best Studio Monitors For An Edit Suite Update July 2022: My personal recommendation for the best studio monitors for your edit suite would be the Yamaha HS7s, which I have used happily for years...

More DaVinci Resolve 12 Tutorials

More DaVinci Resolve 12 Tutorials With the on-going public beta programme of DaVinci Resolve 12 ticking along smoothly more and more people are downloading the software, trying things out for...

FCPX Tips and Tricks

FCPX Tips and Tricks With FCPX more than any other NLE, there always seems to be new things to learn, even for old hands like the crew of the Final Cut Virtual User Group. Although these shows are...