Colour Grading Tips Lift Gamma Gain is a new forum for colorists that has some interesting discussions going on. There are areas for a vast number of colour grading programs, industry news, hardware...
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Final Cut Pro X Vs Premiere Pro CS6
Which is better FCP X or Premiere Pro CS6? In the run up to NAB (in a couple of days) Adobe are hitting the internet hard to get people excited about CS6, while Apple have quietly updated FCPX to 10...
Creating a real film look from digital footage
Creating a real film look Studio Daily recently held a 70 minute webinar in partnership with Assimilate Scratch on how to create a film look from digital footage by adding a ‘film...
Editing in The Cloud
Using The Cloud in post production workflows With NAB fast approaching there is lots of discussion that 2012 will be the year when more and more cloud based services rise up in the world of post...
Understanding Digital Dailies
Cinema Editor Magazine has an interesting article on the rise of digital dailies and the blurring of the line between production and editorial as a greater number of ‘post-production’...
Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID Review
Provideocoalition has a review by Allan Tépper, of the Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID 5, which combines high performance with data redundancy for HD film editing. If you don’t know anything...
Editing Inception
How to edit a $200 million dollar movie Here is an in-depth interview from Studio Daily with film editor Lee Smith and assistant editor John Lee discussing their workflow and creative process for...
Batman The Dark Knight Post Production
Editing Batman The Dark Knight I’m a big fan of Christopher Nolan’s movies, I can’t think of one I haven’t enjoyed both from an entertainment perspective and a craft or...
Why you need Timecode and Reel Numbers
Hopefully this post is just for a few newer editors, fresh into the world of digital editing who need a bit of a brush up on how to edit their Canon 5D footage in a professionally organised fashion...
Setting up a Colour Grading Suite
How to set up a colour grading suite… Carey Dissmore and Steve Oakley present a very down to earth run through, of what it takes to set up a colour grading suite based on DaVinci Resolve. They...
A beginners introduction to colour grading
Understanding the basics of color grading Aaron Williams gives a fast paced but valuable 30 minute presentation to introduce color grading to relative beginners, giving a ’30’000 ft...
Girl with The Dragon Tattoo Color Grading
Colorist Ian Vertovec and Light Iron Digital CEO Michael Cioni talk briefly about color grading David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in what is essentially one long advert for...
Which version of Pro Res should I use?
Depending on what the type and quality of work you are producing, picking the right Pro Res codec can be crucial to ensuring you maintain a pristine image throughout and don’t end up running...
Andrew Stanton on editing John Carter – Pixar’s latest film
The Making of John Carter from Mars Andrew Stanton talks through the post-production challenges involved in creating John Carter which is Pixar’s latest film and their first live action...
Using Automator to prepare FCP timelines for Color
Preparing your FCP timeline for Color When you are preparing a final cut pro timeline to be sent to color there are often a lot of effects or speed changes etc that need to be ‘baked in’...