FCPX Feature Film Workflow It’s an exciting time for FCPX and its fans, for it has finally come of age and out of the dog house of popular opinion and into the spotlight. Not that it...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
Free FCPX Effects & Plugins
Free FCPX Effects and Plugins A popular post here on the blog is this one from about 2 years ago which rounded up a collection of free FCPX resources. I thought it was about time I updated it! So the...
Grading in a hurry – Creative Looks in a Click
Quick Creative Looks in a Click If you need to give you project a bit of polish in a flash then you might want to look into a ‘look packages’ like these Speedlooks from Look Labs. They...
Tutorials for Better Editing in Premiere Pro
Tutorials for Better Editing in Premiere Pro If you’re looking to improve your editing in Adobe Premiere Pro then the following tutorials will serve you well. Not least, these 10 very useful...
How To Become A Better Colorist
How To Become A Better Colorist If you want to become a better colorist this year then learning from some of the world’s best colorists would definitely be a smart idea. In this round up of...
How To Get An External DVD Drive To Work With a Mac Laptop
How To Use A Superdrive on a Mac Laptop With An Internal DVD Drive If you’ve ever tried to plug in an Apple Superdrive (external DVD drive) into a Macbook Pro or other Mac laptop with an...
Learning FCPX – Free Tutorials Round Up
Learning FCPX – Free Tutorials Round Up If you are determined to learn FCPX (Final Cut Pro Ten) then you’ve come to the right place. In this gigantic round up of FCPX tutorials there are...
How To Edit A Documentary
How To Edit A Documentary – An Inside View If you’ve ever wondered how to edit a documentary then editor Steve Audette is the man to show you how it’s done. Steve has edited...
What To Get A Film Editor For Christmas
What To Get A Film Editor For Christmas If you’re wondering what to get your valued editing friend/colleague/partner/boss for Christmas this year then these suggestions might be just thing them...
How To Be A DIT – Part 11
How To Be A DIT – Part 11 – The Basics This is the 11th instalment of How To Be A DIT, but really a lot of the knowledge and resources in these posts is also extremely valuable for...
The Best After Effects Training on Lynda.com For Editors
The Best After Effects Training for Film Editors As an editor the one program that I’ve historically lost work by not knowing is After Effects. Back in my FCP7 days I didn’t even own...
Video Editing With Logitech G-13 Keyboard
Video Editing with Logitech G-13 Keypad Buy on Amazon.com | Buy on Amazon.co.uk I recently purchased a Logitech G13 after hearing how Editor Alan Bell A.C.E. uses one in combination with his Wacom...
Lightworks 12 on Mac – The Free NLE
Free Training For Lightworks 12 on Mac Lightworks 12 for Mac OSX is now out of beta (as of two weeks ago) and freely available it’s Free and Pro versions and, now, across all three major...
How To Become A 2nd Assistant Film Editor
How To Become A 2nd Assistant Film Editor 2nd Assistant Film Editor Robert Sealey’s various post credits include Star Wars: Episode VII, Mission Impossible 5, Heart of the Sea, Edge of...
The Making of Gone Girl
Inside the Gone Girl Post Production Workflow David Fincher’s Gone Girl seems to have created the perfect storm for post production geeks (like me!) who are both excited by the prospect of a...