5 Must Read Books for Freelance Creatives As a freelance creative these ‘must read’ books will inspire you to see your creative business and career in a fresh and energising light. Being...
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The Best Thunderbolt Expansion Peripherals for Editors
Expand your editing set up with Thunderbolt So I’m thinking of upgrading my trusty MacBook Pro later next year, but it only comes with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 Thunderbolt ports and an HDMI port...
Is The New Mac Pro Right For You?
Post Production Thoughts on The New Mac Pro UPDATE: So the new Mac Pro is finally upon us having been profiled this week, with much more information from Apple about their new definition of desk top...
5 Books About Ideas To Shape Your Creative Thinking
5 Books On Ideas To Expand Your Creative Thinking From time to time on my blog I write up a list of 5 books or so on different topics. There’s been two posts on The Best Books on Film Editing 1...
DaVinci Resolve 10 Beta
DaVinci Resolve 10 Beta Update Huzzah! DaVinci Resolve 10 beta is now publically available, after much anticipation building due to various private beta testers remarking on Twitter just how great...
Which hard drive should I buy for video editing?
Which hard drive should I buy for video editing? Which is the best hard drive for film editing?Understand essential hard drive tech termsA range of hard drive options for different editing scenarios...
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...