Editorial & VFX tricks to fix your Indie feature in post production Editor/Director Ken Simpson has put together an hour long look at the raw, unvarnished truth about fixing your indie feature...
Category - After Effects
Editing Tips from the Editor of The Amazing Spiderman
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has added two more tutorials to his blog one (above) on how to do basic rotoscoping in order...
How to create the perfect key
Learning how to key green-screen correctly If your approach to keying green screen shots is to slap on a plugin and hope for the best then Splice Vine’s August series on keying and matting by...
Expand your skill set – Free Tutorials
Video2Brain – Free Tutorial Archive If you’re looking to expand your skill set and be able to say ‘yes’ when you get the classic client question: “Can you use...
Amsterdam Supermeet Videos
Michael Cioni Supermeet Speech Michael Cioni, CEO of LightIron Digital, spoke on the need for evolution or face extinction. Product demos from the Amsterdam Supermeet John Brawly demo of the...
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell
Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...
Adobe Speedgrade CS6 Video Tutorials
Learning Adobe Speedgrade CS6 SpliceNpost (via Jim Wicks) has a series of 8 good (and free) video tutorials on how to get started with Speedgrade CS6. Aimed at beginners, but useful for experienced...
Round up of Adobe Tutorials
Premiere, Speedgrade & After Effects Tutorials If you’re looking for free tutorials and training on using any of Adobe’s new Production Premium CS6 software then these links should...
Compositing Breakdown – Understanding the hidden magic
Layer by Layer Compositing Breakdown In this great tutorial from Nick Campbell of GreyScaleGorilla, he walks through the many layers of an after effects project, demonstrating how different tricks...
A beginners introduction to colour grading
Understanding the basics of color grading Aaron Williams gives a fast paced but valuable 30 minute presentation to introduce color grading to relative beginners, giving a ’30’000 ft...
Free stock footage and After Effects tutorials
If you need some free stock footage for your effects work and you’ve not yet checked out videocopilot.net then you’ve been missing out on a tremendous wealth of free goodies and amazing...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo final editorial workflow
Conforming and Compositing A Feature Digitalcontentproducer.com has a detailed article from assistant editor Tyler Nelson (who also used a similar workflow on The Social Network) describing the...
TV Graphics layer by layer breakdown
TV Promo Graphics – Layer by Layer Brett Morris over on Motionworks, walks through a layer by layer breakdown of his work on these text supers for a TV promo for Fast and the Furious 5. Some...