What is DCP and why is it the future? Digital Cinema Package’s are the future of cinema projection (sadly – I love film!) but if you’re not up to scratch yet on what it is, how it...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
New Features in FCPX 10.0.6
LAFCPUG – FCPX 10.0.6 Walkthrough For over an hour, Mark Spencer and Steve Martin from Ripple Training walk through the new features in FCPX 10.0.6 at the latest LAFCPUG meeting. The update to...
DaVinci Resolve 9 Keyboard Shortcuts
Resolve 9 Keyboard Shortcut Cheatsheets For a handy list of keyboard shortcuts for DaVinci Resolve 9 check out these free downloads. Mathieu Marano of Ilovehue.net has created these free keyboard...
Tapeless Workflow – Doing all the right things
Tapeless Workflow for Beginners Shane Ross of Little Frog in HD delivers a concise and complete workflow tutorial on how to work with tapeless media in FCP 7. This is well worth a watch for any...
Editing The Avengers – Jeff Ford
Avid Roughcut – Cutting features of all sizes The Avid Roughcut podcast is a wealth of excellent editing information, advice and insight – I’ve selected some of the best in this...
FCPX 10.0.6 – Free Tutorials
Free Tutorials for FCPX 10.0.6 We Make Movies has eight free tutorials, specifically for the new FCPX 10.0.6 update, that will take you through among other things a detailed RED workflow as well as...
New Features in Assimilate Scratch v7
Assimilate Scratch 7 New Features Tutorials Assimilate Scratch is a compositing, colour grading and finishing tool which also doubles as a dailies creation system. Here are some short 2 minute...
Final Cut Pro X Update – 10.0.6
What’s in the new FCP X Update? Phillip Hodgetts, as a developer, has the low down on all the new features and tweaks in the latest update of FCP X including: – RED support, dual viewers...
Clever uses of Metadata in Avid
Time-saving Metadata Techniques Scott Simmons linked to these two tutorials (in his ever enjoyable monthly Linkage post) from Premium Beat (where do they get all this stuff?!) which details how to...
Editing Homeland
Cutting Episodic TV on Avid Studio Daily has a fantastic interview with Jordan Goldman on his creative process for editing the acclaimed episodic TV drama Homeland. Goldman shares some of his...
Free Tutorials For Learning FCPX
46 Tutorials Learning FCPX If you’re interested in learning FCPX then having 46 feature by feature tutorials on hand will definitely help get you started. Dan Allen has created them and...
Free Online DIT Training
LightIron Digital – DIT Training If you’re a DIT (or want to be) and interested in learning more about LightIron’s own brand of DIT carts and software then this post is for you. I...
Premiere Pro CS6 & DaVinci Resolve 9
Premiere Pro CS6 & DaVinci Resolve 9 If Premiere Pro CS6 is your editing tool of choice these days then be sure to check out Jessie Borkowoski’s tutorials on working with Premiere and...
Expand your skill set – Free Tutorials
Video2Brain – Free Tutorial Archive If you’re looking to expand your skill set and be able to say ‘yes’ when you get the classic client question: “Can you use...
Why I love to edit with my Wacom Tablet
Why Edit with a Wacom? As an editor I sit in front of my computer at least 8 hours a day. Eight hours of developing ‘The Claw‘ that was swiftly becoming my mouse-hand. Soon I started to...