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...
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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...
Workflows for working with Arri & RED Raw footage
Arri Raw and RED Raw in Premiere Pro 6 Richard Harrington demonstrates in this short tutorial how to work with Raw footage in Premiere Pro. Offline-Online RED FCP7 Workflow If you’re looking to...
Grading Pro Res – LT/HQ Showdown
Which ProRes Codec should I grade with? Tristan Kneschke from Exit Editorial has an interesting post providing a side by side comparison of how well images hold up in grading when stored as Pro Res...
Amsterdam Supermeet Videos
Michael Cioni Supermeet Speech Michael Cioni, CEO of LightIron Digital, spoke on the need for evolution or face extinction. Product demos from the Amsterdam Supermeet John Brawly demo of the...
Grading a music video with Resolve 9
Inside a grade – Renaissance Style Tristan Kneschke has a great post detailing his grading process on a Renaissance style rap video for ‘Killer Mike’ in DaVinci Resolve 9. Tristan...
Editing Tips from Alan Edward Bell
Editing Craft – Alan Edward Bell Alan Edward Bell editor of The Amazing Spiderman and 500 Days of Summer has started a blog where he shares some of his insights and tips into what it takes to...
A Complete Guide To Setting Up a Home Color Grading Suite
How to set up a colour grading suite If you’ve ever wondered what it might take to set up a decent grading suite in your guest bedroom then this post from Ryan E Walters on nofilmschool.com...
‘Beauty’ grading tips & Assimilate Scratch Webinar
‘Beauty’ grading tips for that commercial look Andreas Brueckl demonstrates how to achieve the unachievable with some revealing tips about what goes into creating a beauty based TV...
Three Avid Workflow Tips
Roundtripping: Avid to Resolve & Back Here’s a short video tutorial on how to get your timeline from Avid Media Composer to DaVinci Resolve and back again… Skip to 4 minutes in to get...
Tackling Challenging Edits
Inside two difficult edits As an editor I’m always on the look out for other editors talking about their craft, and often the most interesting stories are how they solved the problems that...
Finishing in Final Cut Pro X
Finishing Your Project in FCPX Oliver Peter’s has a great article on colour grading in FCP X to finish your project. Demonstrating just how much is possible (although why wouldn’t you...
Kick-Ass Film Editor in Conversation
Eddie Hamilton on Editing Kick-Ass Eddie Hamilton is one of the editors who cut Kick-Ass and X-Men First Class and in this 30 minute conversation with Chris Jones he shares what it was like to spend...
RED Workflow – FCP7 to Resolve to FCPX
Indie feature film RED workflow FCP.co has a great write up of one indie feature’s RED workflow that involved roundtrips from Final Cut Pro 7 through Resolve and back to FCP X. Nick Gregorio...