A Round Up of Tips For FCPX Editors If you’re new to editing in FCPX then hopefully this large collection of quick tips should help you learn to get faster, smoother and more productive in...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
Lightworks on Linux and soon on Mac?
Lightworks for Linux and soon on Mac? If like me you’ve been waiting with child-like excitement at the thought of getting your hands on Lightworks for Mac ever since Editshare announced they...
A Colour Grading Round Up For Virgin & Veteran Colourists
Colour Grading in Resolve, Speedgrade & More Here’s a quick round up of some of the latest free tutorials, tips and training on the craft of colour grading that should help both those who...
Best of BVE2013
Catch up on the best presentations of BVE2013 Online If you couldn’t make it to BVE2013 this year, then fear not you can still catch up on some great presentations thanks to the wonders of...
Final Cut Pro X Workflow Round Up
Final Cut Pro X Workflow Round Up If you’re working with FCPX in any serious way then you’ll soon what to rummage through these articles to see how editors around the world are learning...
Over 4 hours of real-world training for Media Composer
Using Media Composer in the Real World Rule Boston Camera’s Learning Lab Series is always superb and I’ve shared to some of their excellent videos before (like this post on 2 Hours with a...
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 – Part 2: Wrestling The Basics
Working with Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 First of all thanks to all those who have been commenting and tweeting and helping me out while I’m trying to get to grips with working with Avid Media...
3 Essential Books on Avid Editing
3 Books on Editing in Avid Media Composer If you’re looking for some great books on learning Avid Media Composer and then, after having grasped the fundamentals, developing some mastery for it...
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...
Dale Grahn – Colour Timing Over 200 Feature Films
Dale Grahn – Learn to Colour Time Dale Grahn was Spielberg’s color timer (the pre-digital intermediate way to colour grade your film) with over 200 feature film credits listed on imdb...
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...
How To Be a DIT – Part 3
How To Be a DIT – Part 3 I’ve blogged a few times about how to become a DIT or a Digital Imaging Technician, bringing together the best things I can find from the internet to help those...
FCPX 10.0.7 – Tips, Tricks & Tutorials
Editing Workflow Tips For FCPX 10.0.7 I’ve noticed quite a few great little FCPX tips and tricks posted online lately so I thought I’d round them all up into one big helpful post. Free...
Avid Media Composer Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Learning Avid – A collection of useful links I’ve recently bought Avid and so have been on the look out for all the tips, tricks and tutorials I can find. Here are a whole host of the...