Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Video Demonstration Al Mooney delivered a 1 hour presentation of the new Premiere Pro CS6 at the latest LACPUG meet up, showcasing how it fits into the Adobe ecosystem and some...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
Essential Ergonomics
Ergonomics for film editors Taking note of your ergonomic habits is essential for preserving your health for a life long career, especially if you are frequently sitting in a chair, at a desk 8 hours...
How to make all fonts available in FCP7
How to access a full font family in FCP7 There is a bug in FCP7 which means that when you install a font family all of the weights and variances don’t appear in the Final Cut Pro text editor...
What is Cinema DNG?
Understanding Cinema DNG…. Cinema DNG (Digital Negative) is a format designed by Adobe and is comprable to shooting in RAW. Blackmagic Design’s Cinema Camera also shoots in the format...
Premiere Pro CS6 free video tutorials
Learning Premiere Pro CS6 CreativeCow has an extensive collection of short video tutorials from Andrew Davis teaching you the basics of how to edit in the new Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. The principles...
How to be a DIT
How to become a DIT If you want to learn how to become a DIT or are wondering what it takes to be one then check out this creative cow article by Von Thomas, an LA based DIT (Digital Image...
Inside Smoke 2013
The new Smoke 2013 Interface Smoke Signals is Autodesk Smoke’s inside look at the development of their all in one finishing tool. This first episode features an interview with the User...
Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error
Fixing Compressor 3x Crash Service Down Error Every now and then a mysterious error will appear whilst trying to compress a file with Apple’s Compressor 3.5. The mysterious error message just...
Working with Arri Alexa footage in post
Understanding Arri Alexa frame rates I was working on a project recently that was shooting on the Arri Alexa at multiple frame rates – 30fps and 60fps. As I was on set doing the card copying...
Colour Grading Round Up
Which Colour Grading Software Should I use? Creative Cow Magazine has an lengthy round up of pretty much all the serious contenders for colour grading available in 2012, covering everything from Avid...
Todailes – Digital Dailies Ipad App
Todailies – Ipad App LightIron Digital have released a $9.99 ipad app called Todailies which when coupled with a free laptop app called LightIron Server lets you wirelessly stream dailies to...
Edit Suite Design
Designing your own edit suite Oliver Peters has a great blog post with some tips on designing your own edit suite covering everything from un-interruptable power supplies to acoustics and how to best...
Creating production dailies with Scratch Lab
If you’re interested in using Scratch Lab for providing production dailies check out this 30 minute video tutorial from Michael Forrest of Assimilate. The new metadata tools in Scratch Lab 6.1...
Useful resources for learning Avid
Useful Resources when Switching to Avid Scott Simmons from the Pro Video Coalition gave a seminar at NAB 2012 where he taught the essentials for editors migrating to Avid Media Composer. He followed...
Free lens flares
Gorilla Grain has morphed its way into flashbangfx.com and has a brand new range of 24 different camera lens flares to add to your footage. There are some free 720p Pro Res ‘Insta-flares’...