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...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
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...
2 & 1/2 Hours of free Smoke 2013 Training
Free Smoke 2013 Tutorials If you’re looking for a high end ‘finishing’ program editorial mashup then Smoke 2013 may be just what you need. The Smoke Training youtube channel now has...
Better editing in Avid
Re-editing an action sequence At the 2011 Supermeet editor Eddie Hamilton (in the middle of a Avid demo) played two versions of an edited action sequence from Kick Ass. Jump to about 6 minutes in and...
Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage
Arri Raw and RED Raw in Premiere Pro 6 Richard Harrington demonstrates in this short tutorial how to work with Raw footage in Premiere Pro. Offline-Online RED FCP7 Workflow If you’re looking to...
Correct footage in correct timeline still needs rendering?
FCP Timeline Gotcha The basic principle in Final Cut Pro 7 for having to do as little rendering as possible is to make sure that everything matches. The sequence settings of your timeline (select it...
Amsterdam Supermeet Videos
Michael Cioni Supermeet Speech Michael Cioni, CEO of LightIron Digital, spoke on the need for evolution or face extinction. Product demos from the Amsterdam Supermeet John Brawly demo of the...
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell
Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...
DaVinci Resolve Q+A with Colorist Andrew Balis
Hollywood DI Colorist Andrew Balis on DvR9 In the most recent podcast from Moviola.com Andrew Balis answers a good selection of questions on colour grading and DaVinci Resolve 9 off the back of his...
A Complete Guide To Setting Up a Home Color Grading Suite
How to set up a colour grading suite If you’ve ever wondered what it might take to set up a decent grading suite in your guest bedroom then this post from Ryan E Walters on nofilmschool.com...
‘Beauty’ grading tips & Assimilate Scratch Webinar
‘Beauty’ grading tips for that commercial look Andreas Brueckl demonstrates how to achieve the unachievable with some revealing tips about what goes into creating a beauty based TV...
DaVinci Resolve Color Grading 101
Free Four Part Resolve Tutorial Series Den Lennie from F-stop Academy has created a free four part colour grading tutorial series. As a DP (rather than a colorist) Den offers more of a beginners...
Standing Desks for Film Editors
Creating your own standing desk Sitting at your desk for 40+ hours a week is slowly killing you. Standing is healthier and apparently makes you more productive. Plus Walter Murch does it so it must...