Roundtripping: Avid to Resolve & Back Here’s a short video tutorial on how to get your timeline from Avid Media Composer to DaVinci Resolve and back again… Skip to 4 minutes in to get...
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Useful tools for film and video editors
Finishing in Final Cut Pro X
Finishing Your Project in FCPX Oliver Peter’s has a great article on colour grading in FCP X to finish your project. Demonstrating just how much is possible (although why wouldn’t you...
Editing with VFX in mind…
Editing in your own VFX If you’ve not watched Alan Edward Bell’s 30 minute webinar on the visual effects that he temped into his offline cuts of The Amazing Spiderman, then sit down and...
REDCINE-X Pro Tutorials
Grading in REDCINE-X Pro and more… REDCINE-X Pro, the free ingest and grading application from RED, lets you create dailies or finished graded material from your original RED metadata. The...
Avid Media Composer 6 in Action
Cutting Bourne Legacy on Avid John Gilroy is the brother of director Tony Gilroy and editor of films like Michael Clayton, Warrior and Salt. In this interview by Oliver Peters, John discusses the...
RED Workflow – FCP7 to Resolve to FCPX
Indie feature film RED workflow FCP.co has a great write up of one indie feature’s RED workflow that involved roundtrips from Final Cut Pro 7 through Resolve and back to FCP X. Nick Gregorio...
The Psychology of a Scene
Crafting your edit Moviola.com has weekly webinars (free at the time, paid for on demand later). They also do an interview with the presenter each week, which you can listen to for free on their...
Filmmaking from an editors perspective
AVID Rough Cut Interviews Avid Rough Cut has 40 episodes under its belt. They feature in depth interviews with filmmakers and editors on their craft, careers and insights on the world of filmmaking...
Solving ‘General Error’ message in FCP7
How to fix ”General Error” message in FCP7 I had this ”General Error” message pop up in FCP7 the other day when my edit would no longer save (although thankfully I could save...
Adobe Speedgrade CS6 Video Tutorials
Learning Adobe Speedgrade CS6 SpliceNpost (via Jim Wicks) has a series of 8 good (and free) video tutorials on how to get started with Speedgrade CS6. Aimed at beginners, but useful for experienced...
Creating End Credit Crawls Online
End Credit Crawls Made Simple Endcrawl.com from Autoglyph looks like a promising new way easily create typeset end credit crawls and then out put them as DPX sequences. Essentially you use one of...
Round up of Adobe Tutorials
Premiere, Speedgrade & After Effects Tutorials If you’re looking for free tutorials and training on using any of Adobe’s new Production Premium CS6 software then these links should...
How to transcode media into Avid MXF
Creating Avid MXF media in DaVinci Resolve Lite This is great tip from Eric Brodeur on how to transcode your footage into the Avid MXF format and then get it into Avid MC6. When Resolve 9 is released...
Thunderbolt RAID Review & Thunderbolt Resources
G-tech Thunderbolt G-RAID Review Adam Garstone from High Definition Magazine reviews the G-tech Thunderbolt G-Raid, which offers ‘blazingly fast’read and write speeds, meaning you can...
Using Technicolor Cinestyle LUT in DaVinci Resolve Lite
How to apply the Technicolor Cinestyle LUT in DaVinci Resolve Lite… If you’re shooting with the Technicolor Cinestyle LUT on your HDSLR and want to apply the correct S-curve to your grade...