Category - Editor’s Tools

Useful tools for film and video editors

From the Cutting Room of Tariq Anwar

Tariq Anwar’s Insights on Editing Twice Oscar nominated film editor Tariq Anwar (The Kings Speech, American Beauty, The Good Shepherd) shares his insights on film editing at the Manhattan...

FCP 7 vs Premiere Pro 5.5 Timeline

Scott Simmons has written up an excellent (if Adobe subsidised) blog post comparing the Final Cut Pro 7 timeline and the Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5 timeline. There are more than a dozen useful pointers...

Digital Video Magazine

If you don’t subscribe to the free digital edition of Digital Video Magazine, you really should! This months edition was a corker with excellent articles from Oliver Peters on ARRI Alexa color...

Using Redcine X Pro

Useful video tutorial on using Redcine X Pro to process Epic, Scarlett or Red One footage. Redcine X Pro is RED’s free ingest/grading program that is currently in beta. Here is another short...

DaVinci Resolve (8.1.1) – NOW FREE!

Blackmagic Design are either crazy or incredibly clever, but whatever they may be, they are certainly generous! Their 8.1.1 release of DaVinci Resolve Lite is now no longer restricted to 2 nodes. It...

Walter Murch – In Conversation

Walter Murch In Conversation Walter Murch (one of the most famous editors of all time?) speaking at the recent Boston Supermeet… An interesting excerpt from artist Josh Melnick’s new book...

Post Haste v2 – Free Tool

Post Haste, from Digital Rebellion, is a free time saving tool for setting up template folder structures to streamline your post production workflow.

Learning Lightworks

Lightworks – the free open source NLE, is coming soon to the mac on December 19th. If you’ve not signed up to the forum, you should, its a thriving community of tips, tricks and solutions...

Automatic Duck – Free Tools

With Automatic Duck being bought by Adobe (and soon to be integrated into the next release) Automatic Duck have released its suite of tools for frees so snap them up while you can. They’re the...

Best free editing tools on the web…

Michael Cinquin has created some of the most useful free editing tools around. They’re amazing because they do obscure but vital things, really well. They’re also free. They’re a...