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’...
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Which version of XML should I use?
Using XML to transfer in/out of FCP A quick reference for which version of XML to use when transfering between FCP project file versions: XML / FCP version Compatibility Use XML version 1 for going...
Edit Assisting: Getting Organised
How to be an edit assistant Evan Schiff shares his workflow for organising a feature film, in this case Hellboy 2, to keep the whole operation running smoothly. A consistent and accurate naming...
Timelapse Editing Set Up
Editing Timelapse in 4k Tom Lowe of Timescapes fame, shares a quick overview of his PC and Adobe based editing system for creating his new film, filling over 15 TB of storage hooked up via esata...
2 hours of Final Cut Pro X Tips
Managing FCPX events and projects… Mark Spencer and Steve Martin from Ripple Training talk through the latest features and updates in FCP X 10.0.3, including relinking media, green screening...
Understanding 4K and the future of cinema
The future of digital cinema… Michael Cioni of LightIron Digital delivers an unmissable presentation on 4k and the future of digital cinema, whilst revealing in detail the post-production...
DaVinci Resolve Lite – more tutorials
Here is a decent 15 minute tutorial that will help you get started with using DaVinci Resolve Lite. Dan walks through how to get set up, bring in media and work with R3D footage. More free DaVinici...
Working with multiple formats and aspect ratios
Evan Schiff – assistant editor on Mission Impossible 4 has a great run down of his workflow for working with the multiple camera formats and aspect ratios on the film. The extra tricky part is...
Free digital specification guides and short cut cheat-sheets
If you need help remembering how fast transfer speeds are over firewire 800, or what the target bit rates are for RED-RAW or what the shortcut is for ‘add edit’ in FCP7 then look no...
REDCINE-X PRO Workflow
How to conform RED raw files For a step by step tutorial on using REDCINE-X PRO to finish your Final Cut Pro edit with a roundtrip through Color to grade your RED footage, from the raw .r3d files...
Editing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Editing The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Oliver Peter’s has a written up great interview with Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter who were the editing team behind The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. There...
Conform FCP timeline to r3d files automatically
Michael Cinquin – an editor from Belgium – has created some life saving tools for film editors (which can only be found online) and one in particular will help you to conform your FCP...
Thunderbolt peripherals for editors
For an overview of the latest Thunderbolt developments after CES Cary Dissmore (an editor from Minneapolis) has two great video blogs explaining the state of play and also some interesting (and...
XML Roundtrip from FCP to Resolve and back…
How to roundtrip from FCP to Resolve Warren Eagles (icolorist) shares a quick color grading tutorial on how to roundtrip your edited timeline from Final Cut Pro 7 to DaVinci Resolve and back again...
Creating graded dailies as proxy files with DaVinci Resolve from Log footage
DITspot.com looks like a fairly new, yet promising, DIT (Digital Image Technician) website (it only has three articles so far) but they are already excellent sources of DIT info. How to create...