Studio Daily has a great interview with Moneyball editor Christopher Tellefesen about his instinctive process of cutting, reliance on Avid Script Sync and combining Oscar nominated performances with...
Category - Editor’s Tools
Useful tools for film and video editors
Understanding how FCP X works
Comparing FCP 7 and X If you’ve been an FCP 7 editor for years, getting your head around the new layout, architecture and language of FCP X can be confusing at first. Helpfully Oliver Peters...
Which version of Pro Res should I use?
Depending on what the type and quality of work you are producing, picking the right Pro Res codec can be crucial to ensuring you maintain a pristine image throughout and don’t end up running...
Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 Review
Is FCP X 10.0.3 ready for professional editors? Scott Simmons has an in-depth and interesting review of the latest version of FCP X 10.0.3 over on Studio Daily. Having added many of the features that...
Using Automator to prepare FCP timelines for Color
Preparing your FCP timeline for Color When you are preparing a final cut pro timeline to be sent to color there are often a lot of effects or speed changes etc that need to be ‘baked in’...
Which version of XML should I use?
Using XML to transfer in/out of FCP A quick reference for which version of XML to use when transfering between FCP project file versions: XML / FCP version Compatibility Use XML version 1 for going...
Timelapse Editing Set Up
Editing Timelapse in 4k Tom Lowe of Timescapes fame, shares a quick overview of his PC and Adobe based editing system for creating his new film, filling over 15 TB of storage hooked up via esata...
2 hours of Final Cut Pro X Tips
Managing FCPX events and projects… Mark Spencer and Steve Martin from Ripple Training talk through the latest features and updates in FCP X 10.0.3, including relinking media, green screening...
Touchscreen editing with FCPX
It’s all very Minority Report, but this video demonstration from Jason Rose, shows off his touchscreen interface while editing with FCPX. It’s also a handy demonstration of how to create...
Understanding 4K and the future of cinema
The future of digital cinema… Michael Cioni of LightIron Digital delivers an unmissable presentation on 4k and the future of digital cinema, whilst revealing in detail the post-production...
Understanding Media Management in FCP X
With the tumultuous initial release of Final Cut Pro X, Apple completely changed the way that FCP manages the media and project settings and where it stores the media files, back up files, transcodes...
Free blur effects for FCPX
Alex Gollner of Alex4d has some more free Final Cut Pro X effects available to download, this time focusing on creating different styles of blur effect. Download seven free blur effects and more...
Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3
Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 Reviews… Apple’s latest update to Final Cut Pro X adds multicam editing, autosync (ie pluraleyes) and a bunch of other features that should really have been in the...
Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets
If you need help remembering how fast transfer speeds are over firewire 800, or what the target bit rates are for RED-RAW or what the shortcut is for ‘add edit’ in FCP7 then look no...
Learning high end finishing tools…
There seems to be more and more talk floating around the web about ‘regular editors’ using high end finishing tools like Smoke, Nuke or Scratch (which also does a whole load of production...