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...
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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...
Creating the sound design for a promo for Sound Design
The Sound Design for a Promo for Rampant Design Film Editor’s Sound Effects Packs Alan Pfiel from Rampant Design has a good tutorial on how he created the sound design for the promo film for...
DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading Tutorials
Color Grading Tutorials for DaVinci Resolve Mixing Light is an up and coming new color grading membership forum from Patrick Inhoffer, Robbie Carman and Dan Moran. They’re releasing a few...
Indie Feature Film School – How to fix it in post
Editorial & VFX tricks to fix your Indie feature in post production Editor/Director Ken Simpson has put together an hour long look at the raw, unvarnished truth about fixing your indie feature...
Interviews with Christopher Nolan’s Editing Team
Editor Lee Smith & Assistant John Lee in Interview Christopher Nolan is undoubtably one of my favourite directors and his editing team – Editor Lee Smith and Assistant Editor John Lee...
Film grain and light leaks
How to get a film look Everyone shooting digital wants their stuff to look like film. (Why not shoot film then?!) There are several footage packages that allow you to overlay real or simulated film...
How to Fix Red Exclamation Mark Error in FCP7 Log & Transfer
Solving Log and Transfer Error – The Red Exclamation Problem This particular FCP7 quirk can be frustratingly mysterious, yet the solution is incredibly simple. It happened to me the other...
Don’t like FCPX? Here’s where you can still buy Final Cut Pro 7
How to find the old version of Final Cut Studio 3 Apple updated FCPX to 10.0.7 today with a few bug fixes and it made me think how far it still has to go. I’ve been editing on FCP7 for long...
Why now is a good time to buy Avid
Why you might want to think about buying Avid Media Composer 6.5 I’ve been a Final Cut Pro editor for my whole working life, which is inching towards a decade which isn’t that long in the...
Getting your project into Resolve v9
Importing your edit into DaVinci Resolve If you’re looking for a one stop place to find out how to import your project into DaVinci Resolve this quick post should get you in and out in any NLE...
Comparing Final Cut Pro X vs Premiere Pro CS6
Which is better? FCPX or Premiere? No Film School posted a write up about this 45 minute presentation from Ric Lanciotti of the The Pacific Northwest College of Art. Its an in depth video with point...
An Editor’s Epic Christmas List
What to buy a film editor for Christmas? The Christmas is almost upon us and you’re thinking about just how much you love, value and appreciate your humble film editor. You want to show them...