Category - Workflow

How To Edit Film Trailers

Cutting Film Trailers Recently director Joe Carnahan uploaded this sizzle reel for the (18/NC-17) version of DareDevil that he was trying to persuade the studios to let him make. More interesting to...

The Psychology of a Scene

Crafting your edit Moviola.com has weekly webinars (free at the time, paid for on demand later). They also do an interview with the presenter each week, which you can listen to for free on their...

How to be a great sound editor

Sound editing 30 minute bootcamp Vickie Sampson presented this 30 minute walk through at LAFCPUG about what your sound editor needs from all aspects of production, but also from you as the film...

A.C.E. Editors on their craft…

American Cinema Editors share their wisdom Cinema Editor Magazine, the official magazine of ACE,  has a great selection of articles and interviews from its editors – for which you’ll have...

Edit Fest LA (The view from the Internet)

Edit Fest LA – An outsiders view Living in London there was very little way for me to get to LA for Edit Fest but thanks to the mighty internet, and some gracious tweeters here is a round up of...

A Month of Color Grading Learning

Learning the fundamentals of Color Grading Patrick Inhoffer of the Tao of Color (and a thuroughly fantastic free newsletter) has been blogging for the past month on splicevine on the fundamentals of...

The Coloristos – New Color Grading Podcast

3 colorists discuss the state of the industry The Coloristos (Josh Petok, Juan Salvo and Jason Myres) have just realised a pilot episode of their own podcast in which they discuss in broad strokes...

Creating End Credit Crawls Online

End Credit Crawls Made Simple Endcrawl.com from Autoglyph looks like a promising new way easily create typeset end credit crawls and then out put them as DPX sequences. Essentially you use one of...

How to transcode media into Avid MXF

Creating Avid MXF media in DaVinci Resolve Lite This is great tip from Eric Brodeur on how to transcode your footage into the Avid MXF format and then get it into Avid MC6. When Resolve 9 is released...

How to be a DIT – Part 2

Learning to be a DIT If you’re impressed by things like the LightIron’s onset post production labs and want to learn more about what it takes to be a DIT then check out this free webinar...

Post production tips from Larry Jordan

5 great tips for post from Larry Jordan Larry Jordan, the grandaddy of FCP editors/trainers has a hugely useful blog, forum and training warehouse, with excellent video tutorials on just about every...

Editing The Amazing Spiderman

The Amazing Spiderman post production Alan Edward Bell is the lead editor on Sony’s tent pole film this summer – The Amazing Spiderman. In this interview on the Digital Production Buzz...

On set Post Production

Light Iron Digital’s On Set Post Production This video from Michael Cioni and his team at Light Iron Digital is seeking to demonstrate a) how their kit works and b) their vision of the future...