Category - Editor’s Tools

Useful tools for film and video editors

How to use Twixtor

Twixtor is a cool plugin for a variety of NLE’s and post programs that ”intelligently slows down, speeds up or changes the frame rate of your image sequences”. Basically it makes...

LightWorks coming soon to mac…

Edit share have just announced that they will be releasing Lightworks on November 29th with the mac version being available on the 19th December 2011. The source code will become available at...

Free Motion templates

There is a mixed bag of free motion templates available on the net, sometimes useful in a tight spot when you’re short of time on an edit but more often than not it takes as much time to adapt...

FCPX Tips and Tricks – Macbreak Studio

Working in FCPX If you’ve got a spare hour and a half the latest podcast from pixel corps/macbreak studio is well worth the time to discover some of the day-to-day work arounds and hidden...

Actually editing with FCPX

Three great videos from Michael Wohl from the LAFCPUG. Funny and informative and very much nuts and bolts of real world editing with FCPX. Well worth making 45 minutes if you’re starting out...

Free DaVinci Resolve (Lite)

Blackmagic Design are doing the world a favour again (aside from a range of great products, releasing DaVinci Resolve for £700 was generous) with a free version of their fantastic colour grading...

Working with XDCAM and FCP7

Here is a handy link to Sony’s UK download site for all the tools you’ll need for working with Sony XDCAM and XDCAM-EX with Final Cut Pro 7. For XDCAM 1. XDCAM Browser (v1.2) 2. SxS UDF...

Working with FCPX

Here is a handy blog tracking some of the initial quirks of fcpx.   See also Larry Jordan’s blog on his thoughts on sticking/switching/praising/despising FCPX. Personally I’m sticking...

How to make your showreel great…

Make it like my friend Neil Edwards, who is the best editor I know and has a brilliant showreel for his shooting skills. This showreel is not only the funniest one I’ve seen but a great sales...

Download your learning

I’m all about learning. I love learning. I don’t know anyone who will ever tell you to stop learning. When you stop learning, you get boring very quickly. Here are some links to get you...

Working with ARRI Alexa footage

Oliver Peter’s at Digital Films has a great article (among a huge, and equally great, back catalogue) on working with Arri Alexa footage in a variety of NLE’s. Useful free downloads...