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...
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The Making of The Martian
The Making of The Martian I really enjoyed The Martian, starring earth’s most expensive rescuee – Matt Damon. Him and a host of Go-Pro cameras. Strangely what I appreciated most about the...
DaVinci Resolve 12 Beta New Features and First Impressions
DaVinci Resolve 12 Beta New Features and First Impressions The DaVinci Resolve 12 first public beta is out now (today in fact) and so if you’re eager to get your hands on the sparkly new...
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...
DaVinci Resolve Tutorials To Improve Your Grades
DaVinci Resolve Tutorials To Improve Your Grades Even though DaVinci Resolve 12 has been announced with lots of exciting features – check out this pretty epic post on it – there is still...
What’s New in Final Cut Pro 10.2?
What’s New in Final Cut Pro 10.2? It’s always a pleasant surprise when Apple updates Final Cut Pro X and they chose to coincide with NAB 2015 for their latest release, which brings...
DaVinci Resolve 12 Tips and Demos
DaVinci Resolve 12 Tips and Demos The big news of NAB 2015 was Blackmagic Design’s epic list of announcements, three of which were of particular interest to me, the first of which was DaVinci...
Inspirational Filmmaking Craft Round Up
Inspirational Filmmaking Craft Round Up Every now and then, you just need to see something inspirational about the craft of filmmaking that leaves you wanting to get up and make better films, tell...
The Making of Chappie
The Making of Chappie Every so often on the blog I end up creating some massive, constantly updated post about a particular film that’s just come out. Somehow often sci-fi movies –...
How To Become A Better Colorist
How To Become A Better Colorist If you want to become a better colorist this year then learning from some of the world’s best colorists would definitely be a smart idea. In this round up of...
The Big DaVinci Resolve 11 Training Review
The Big DaVinci Resolve 11 Training Review If you want to learn how to use DaVinci Resolve 11 then you would be smart to invest in some online training. But when there are so many to choose from...
Behind The Scenes on Interstellar
Behind The Scenes on Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is probably my most anticipated film of 2014, and one that I will enjoy seeing in 70mm film print at...
The Best After Effects Training on Lynda.com For Editors
The Best After Effects Training for Film Editors As an editor the one program that I’ve historically lost work by not knowing is After Effects. Back in my FCP7 days I didn’t even own...
DaVinci Resolve 11.1 Tips and Tutorials
DaVinci Resolve 11.1 Tips and Tutorials With the release of DaVinci Resolve 11.1 (no longer in beta) there are a slew of new editing features and updates which are quickly covered in the video above...
Making of Godzilla 2014
The Making of Godzilla 2014 Godzilla (2014) looks like a great summer blockbuster to me – largely because of director Gareth Edwards and (in this trailer) Bryan Cranston’s excellent...