How To Be A DIT – Insights From Working DITs If you’re looking for the inside scoop on what it’s like to be a working DIT then Charlie Anderson’s excellent blog is well worth...
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Useful tools for film and video editors
The Best Thunderbolt Expansion Peripherals for Editors
Expand your editing set up with Thunderbolt So I’m thinking of upgrading my trusty MacBook Pro later next year, but it only comes with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 Thunderbolt ports and an HDMI port...
Adobe Speedgrade CC Tips & Tutorials
Tips and Tutorials for Adobe Speedgrade CC The latest release of Speedgrade allows you to ‘direct link’ between Premiere Pro which means that you now no longer need to render out new...
The Best Training on Lynda.com for Film Editors
The Best Training on Lynda.com for Film Editors Lynda.com is a hugely valuable resource for digital creatives the world over who want to pick up new skills, learn new software packages or hone their...
DaVinci Resolve 10 Grading Tutorials
DaVinci Resolve 10 Color Grading Tutorials DaVinci Resolve 10 is now out of beta and available to download. The latest release from Blackmagic Design is a huge leap forward – adding in features...
More Tutorials for Colorists
Colour Grading Tutorial Round Up In this round up of tutorials for colorists of every calibre you can learn how to use scopes on your iPad, just how many ways you can colour grade in FCPX, and get a...
How To Make A DCP For Free
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...
How To Be A DIT Part 7
How To Be A DIT Part 7 – Tips & Tech This series of How To Be A DIT posts is marching into it’s 7th instalment. Although you don’t have to be a DIT to benefit from the resources...
The Art and Craft of Sound Design
Understanding The Craft of Sound Design Sound design is 60% of any film’s construction. In many ways good sound design is more important than good picture. You might be forgiven for shaky...
Tips & Tutorials for Adobe Premiere Pro Editors
Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC If you’ve just made the transition to editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC then this round up tutorials and resources should help make that move a smooth one...
Mamba FX – Free Download & Tutorials
Mamba FX – Compositing Tutorials Mamaba FX is a brand new, high end compositing tool from SGO, makers of Mistika – a colour grading solution. Mamba is a single shot compositing tool with...
Is The New Mac Pro Right For You?
Post Production Thoughts on The New Mac Pro UPDATE: So the new Mac Pro is finally upon us having been profiled this week, with much more information from Apple about their new definition of desk top...
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...
Improve Your Edit – Insights on the Craft of Film Editing
Improve Your Edit – Film Editing Fundamentals Developing your craft as a film editor means taking the time to study and truly understand what make an edit better. Some of editing can be learned...
Tutorials for DaVinci Resolve Round Up
A Round Up of Tutorials for DaVinci Resolve There are plenty of great places online to learn more about DaVinci Resolve, and in this round up I’ve gathered together plenty of new gems for your...