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5 Things To Do While At EditFest & Supermeet London
5 Things To Do In London – Editor’s Weekend The weekend of the 28th and 29th of June is a big one in the editor/geek’s calendar. Not only is EditFest coming to London for the first...
5 Books on Storytelling Every Creative Should Read
5 Great Books for Every Creative Storyteller Being a great storyteller is key to any creative work, whether its a song, still image or feature film. These 5 books on screenwriting and writing will...
Diary of an Avid Switcher Part 4 – The Media Composer 7 Version
Getting To Work In Media Composer Today is the first day that I’ve enjoyed editing in Media Composer. I feel like I might be starting to see why people love it so much. Hopefully this also...
Color Grading Round Up – NAB 2013 Edition
Colorists on Color Grading Here’s a quick round up of color grading panels, displays and announcements from this years NAB. If you’re interested in the latest color grading gear this...
DaVinci Resolve 10
DaVinci Resolve 10 The company making the most amount of noise and online clamour at this years NAB (as they were last year too) was Blackmagic Design. They’ve released two new cameras, one of...
Premiere Pro Next Vs FCPX 10.0.8
Premiere Pro Vs FCPX – Updated NLE’s If you’ve been following the NAB 2013 announcements you’ll know that Adobe is making steady strides towards the professional post...
3 Essential Books on Avid Editing
3 Books on Editing in Avid Media Composer If you’re looking for some great books on learning Avid Media Composer and then, after having grasped the fundamentals, developing some mastery for it...
Diary of an Avid Switcher – Part 1: Humble Beginnings
Learning Avid Media Composer 6.5 I bought Avid over Christmas, making the most of Videoguys crossgrade deal, and finally installed Avid Media Composer 6.5.2 in the new year. The download and install...
Best 5 Books On Marketing For The Digital Creative
Best 5 Books on Marketing for the Digital Creative Here are my best 5 books on marketing for the digital creative, which should hopefully inspire you to better ‘sell’ your digital talents...
Why now is a good time to buy Avid
Why you might want to think about buying Avid Media Composer 6.5 I’ve been a Final Cut Pro editor for my whole working life, which is inching towards a decade which isn’t that long in the...
Comparing Final Cut Pro X vs Premiere Pro CS6
Which is better? FCPX or Premiere? No Film School posted a write up about this 45 minute presentation from Ric Lanciotti of the The Pacific Northwest College of Art. Its an in depth video with point...
Books On Film Editing – Part 2
More Books on Film Editing A while back I listed my ‘Top 5 Books on Film Editing‘. Since then I’ve read a few more and thought I’d list them here. There really is a wealth of...
Why I love to edit with my Wacom Tablet
Why Edit with a Wacom? As an editor I sit in front of my computer at least 8 hours a day. Eight hours of developing ‘The Claw‘ that was swiftly becoming my mouse-hand. Soon I started to...
Better editing in Avid
Re-editing an action sequence At the 2011 Supermeet editor Eddie Hamilton (in the middle of a Avid demo) played two versions of an edited action sequence from Kick Ass. Jump to about 6 minutes in and...