Category - Motion Graphics

Trapcode Suite 13 Review

Trapcode Suite 13 Review Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite, and specifically Trapcode Particular, are often seen by motion graphics artists as an essential item in the creation of superior looking...

Improving Every Part of Your Edit

Improving Every Part of Your Edit When you’re a self-taught filmmaker it pays every now and then to take a refresher course in your editing software of choice, partly to learn new and better...

Getting Started With Fusion 8

Getting Started With Fusion 8 Fusion, the compositing and visual effects software, recently acquired from Eyeon by Blackmagic Design, is available as a free download under a beta release, for both...

5 Free Books Every Editor Should Read

5 Free Books Every Editor Should Read I often put together book review posts here on the blog, and you can check out all of the previous ones on the blog here. In this post I’ve rounded up five...

5 Free Compositing Apps For Film Editors

5 Free Compositing Applications For Film Editors If you’re looking to beef up your technical and creative chops and get stuck into some serious compositing work, you’ll want to...

Free FCPX Effects & Plugins

Free FCPX Effects and Plugins A popular post here on the blog is this one from about 2 years ago which rounded up a collection of free FCPX resources. I thought it was about time I updated it! So the...

What To Get A Film Editor For Christmas

What To Get A Film Editor For Christmas If you’re wondering what to get your valued editing friend/colleague/partner/boss for Christmas this year then these suggestions might be just thing them...

The Making of Gone Girl

Inside the Gone Girl Post Production Workflow David Fincher’s Gone Girl seems to have created the perfect storm for post production geeks (like me!) who are both excited by the prospect of a...

Tutorials for Premiere Pro CC Editors

Tutorials for Premiere Pro CC Editors To begin this huge round up of tutorials for Premiere Pro CC editors check out this half hour introduction to all the new features in Premiere Pro 7.1, thanks to...

The Best Training on Lynda.com for Film Editors

The Best Training on Lynda.com for Film Editors Lynda.com is a hugely valuable resource for digital creatives the world over who want to pick up new skills, learn new software packages or hone their...

How To Make A DCP For Free

Creating Digital Cinema Packages for free Digital Cinema Packages are the gateway to digital cinema projection and distribution and is a specifically designed set of video, audio and metadata files...