Category - Workflow

Colour Grading Workflows

Resolve 9 R3D Grading Workflow Markus Wellguny shares his dailies, editorial and final conform workflow in his guest post on Ninofilm.net. If you’re about to begin work on a R3D project and...

Preparing for a Grading Session

Questions to ask during the Creative Brief Patrick Inhofer from Taoofcolor.com is (hurricane Sandy not withstanding) about to release his grade along training series in which you get to grade an 8...

Grading & Finishing Commercials

Creative DI in Commercials Studio Daily and Assimilate hosted this hour long webinar with Emery Wells, CEO & Founder of Katabatic, who walks through his colour grading, compositing and finishing...

Understanding DCP – Digital Cinema Package

What is DCP and why is it the future? Digital Cinema Package’s are the future of cinema projection (sadly – I love film!) but if you’re not up to scratch yet on what it is, how it...

New Features in FCPX 10.0.6

LAFCPUG – FCPX 10.0.6 Walkthrough For over an hour, Mark Spencer and Steve Martin from Ripple Training walk through the new features in FCPX 10.0.6 at the latest LAFCPUG meeting. The update to...

FCPX 10.0.6 – Free Tutorials

Free Tutorials for FCPX 10.0.6 We Make Movies has eight free tutorials, specifically for the new FCPX 10.0.6 update, that will take you through among other things a detailed RED workflow as well as...

Editing Homeland

Cutting Episodic TV on Avid Studio Daily has a fantastic interview with Jordan Goldman on his creative process for editing the acclaimed episodic TV drama Homeland. Goldman shares some of his...

Free Online DIT Training

LightIron Digital – DIT Training If you’re a DIT (or want to be) and interested in learning more about LightIron’s own brand of DIT carts and software then this post is for you. I...

Premiere Pro CS6 & DaVinci Resolve 9

Premiere Pro CS6 & DaVinci Resolve 9 If Premiere Pro CS6 is your editing tool of choice these days then be sure to check out Jessie Borkowoski’s tutorials on working with Premiere and...

DaVinci Resolve v9.0.1 Tips

Tips for using DaVinci Resolve 9.0.1 Blackmagic Design have released another update for DaVinci Resolve which adds a few extra things like CinemaDNG highlight recovery. You can download DaVinci...

Walter Murch’s Workflow

Murch on editing Hemingway & Gellhorn Walter Murch is one of the granddaddy’s of film editing and is always well worth a read whenever he’s interviewed. Oliver Peter’s has a...

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...