How To Upgrade Avid Media Composer So in practice for the anticipated installation of Avid Media Composer 7 I’ve decided to actually update my Avid installation to MC 6.5.2.1. As always with...
Category - Visual Effects
Freebies for FCPX
Free Things for Use With Final Cut Pro X If you’re on the look out for some free generators, effects, and such for use in FCPX, then this round up of some of the best free downloads available...
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...
Behind The Scenes on Oblivion
Oblivion Behind The Scenes If you enjoyed Joseph Kosinski’s Tron Legacy, then his next film Oblivion looks pretty darn good too. There are some really interesting behind the scenes featurettes...
Four DaVinci Resolve Tutorials
Four DaVinci Resolve Tutorials Here is another quick round up of some of the most recent DaVinci Resolve tutorials to hit the web. For a ton more post on DaVinci Resolve check out the Resolve and...
Compositing Tips for DaVinci Resolve
Compositing Tips for DaVinci Resolve Here are a few handy quick tips for creating composites using external matte and multilayer matte nodes in DaVinci Resolve. Creating a Composite in Resolve Using...
Over 6 Hours of Free Colour Grading & VFX Training
6 Hours of Free Assimilate Scratch Training If you want over 6 hours of free training on professional color grading and compositing techniques and generally how to make the most Assimilate...
Paperman – Oscar Nominated Animated Short Film
Paperman – Pushing animation boundaries Paperman is the latest B-movie (in the traditional sense of the word) to play before a Disney film (Wreck-it-Ralph) and is director John Kahrs first...
Creating the sound design for a promo for Sound Design
The Sound Design for a Promo for Rampant Design Film Editor’s Sound Effects Packs Alan Pfiel from Rampant Design has a good tutorial on how he created the sound design for the promo film for...
DaVinci Resolve Colour Grading Tutorials
Color Grading Tutorials for DaVinci Resolve Mixing Light is an up and coming new color grading membership forum from Patrick Inhoffer, Robbie Carman and Dan Moran. They’re releasing a few...
Indie Feature Film School – How to fix it in post
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...
Film grain and light leaks
How to get a film look Everyone shooting digital wants their stuff to look like film. (Why not shoot film then?!) There are several footage packages that allow you to overlay real or simulated film...
The Post behind Life of Pi, Cloud Atlas & Hitchcock
Feature Film Editorial Round Up One of the things that’s great about the online post production community is getting insights into the latest interesting feature films even before they hit the...
Skyfall’s Post Production Workflow
Inside Skyfall’s post production process The latest instalment of the Bond franchise does not disappoint (so go see it if you still can!) and as ever Roger Deakin’s cinematography does...
5 Amazing Visual Effects Breakdowns
Step by Step Visual Effects Reveals Visual effects breakdowns are always compelling viewing for me, as they are like watching the post production process in reverse. Peeling back the wallpaper and...