Category - Editor’s Tools

Useful tools for film and video editors

Premiere Pro CS6 vs Final Cut Pro

Premiere Pro CS6 first impressions… David Lawrence has a lengthy blog post over on Creative Cow with his first impressions of the new Adobe Premiere Pro in CS 6. As a long time FCP user he...

Learning Avid

Switching from FCP to Avid? In the quest to find a more long term solution for an editing platform I’ve been looking closely at Avid Media Composer 6. Oliver Peter’s has a very handy...

Smoke 2013 – Demos & Tutorials

There are plenty of Smoke 2013 product demonstrations and video tutorials available showcasing all the new editorial features and post workflows possible in the new version of Autodesk Smoke. Here...

NAB 2012 – Round Up of Round Ups

For all the NAB announcements, headlines, press releases and highlights check out these round ups on the Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera, Resolve 9.0, new Thunderbolt devices, Lightworks and Smoke...

Exporting DPX files from Color

DPX Workflow Sometimes if you are finishing your project in a professional colour grading suite, or sending plates to a vfx house they prefer to have dpx files to work from. To create these...

Colour Grading Tips

Colour Grading Tips Lift Gamma Gain is a new forum for colorists that has some interesting discussions going on. There are areas for a vast number of colour grading programs, industry news, hardware...

Premiere Pro CS6 New Features

Video2brain.com has just released over 2 hours of free tutorials introducing all of the new features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Over 2 hours of Premiere Pro video tutorials… The course covers...

Final Cut Pro X Vs Premiere Pro CS6

Which is better FCP X or Premiere Pro CS6? In the run up to NAB (in a couple of days) Adobe are hitting the internet hard to get people excited about CS6, while Apple have quietly updated FCPX to 10...

Editing in The Cloud

Using The Cloud in post production workflows With NAB fast approaching there is lots of discussion that 2012 will be the year when more and more cloud based services rise up in the world of post...

90 minutes on colour grading

Mark Spencer and Steve Martin are joined by Alexis Van Hurkman for an hour and a half on the world of colour grading, largely on DaVinci Resolve, but other applications too. Which control surface to...

Thinking about Learning Avid…

Avid Media Composer is the only piece of software (other than After Effects) that I’ve lost work by not knowing. Some post houses are all Avid and when you want to work there, you need to know...

FCPX Freebies

FCPX Free Downloads Alex Gollner of Alex4d has a growing archive of free FCP X filters, effects and colour grades that you can download from his site. His latest batch is 11 colour effects including...

Thunderbolt Capture Devices Test Review

Oliver Peters has a comprehensive test review of the first batch of Thunderbolt enabled I/O devices which allow you to capture and playback via through external interfaces. Peter’s tests the...

Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID Review

Provideocoalition has a review by Allan Tépper, of the Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID 5, which combines high performance with data redundancy for HD film editing.  If you don’t know anything...