The Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for Film Editors 2019

• Black Friday 2019 Deals for Film Editors
• Post Production Promo Codes and Discounts
• The Best Amazon Black Friday Deals for Film Editors

It’s that time of year again when Black Friday 2019 rolls around for a retail bonanza with deep discounts on post production services, software and essential gear.

In this post I’ve reached out to all the post production brands I know best to see if they’re running a deal this year, in order to help save you a few bucks and also support their businesses. We’re all in this together after all!

Some of them have offered me exclusive discounts or details of their deals ahead of time, so be sure to check back regularly over the next week or so to see if new deals are available for the thing you’re after.

One quick tip would be to see who ran a deal last year…

I’ve also culled Amazon’s Black Friday deals to cherry pick the best deals that I think anyone working in post production would do well to consider. You can jump down the post to those here:

–> CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO MY LIST OF THE BEST BLACK FRIDAY DEALS ON AMAZON <–

If you hear of a great sale (or are running one) hit the comments or the contact form to let me know!

If you’re currently a little strapped for cash at the minute and can’t snap something up right now – fear not – you can still grab some excellent post production freebies and promo codes, all year round, right here.

Black Friday Deals and Discounts for Film Editors

When it comes to some of the best post production software, hardware and online services for film editors, there are plenty of opportunities to save some of your hard earned cash this Black Friday.

I’ll update this list over the next few weeks of the post as more details become available and offer codes appear online but to get us started I’ve based this year’s list on last year’s final Black Friday Deals list, with the assumption that many of the same companies will be running a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale again this year.

So check back regularly to see what’s new and if your favourite company is running a sale!

Masterclass.com – I probably spend more time watching and enjoying Masterclass.com than I do on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video. I don’t know of any other place where you can learn from the world’s best and brightest with such simplicity and high-production values.

For a limited time they are offering a Buy One Give One holiday offer in which you and a smart thinking friend could buddy up and split the cost of an All-Access Pass and get another one for free. Or you could be super generous and buy one and give one away!

Act fast because the deal is almost over! Here’s my review of the All-Access Pass and just some of the amazing people you can learn from, including Aaron Sorkin, Hans Zimmer, Ron Howard, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson and many, many more!

Hedge – My favourite file back up and verified transfer app (review here) have up to 40% off some of their small bundles and $185 off their ”Full Monty” bundle of every single one of their products during their sale. That includes Hedge, Canister, Foolcat and Checkpoint.

Their big ticket item is receiving $1000 of Hedge credit when you buy an mTape LTO drive before the end of the month. If you need to store files safely and securely for the long-term then you need to look into LTO.

You can save 10% on Hedge’s products all year round with this discount link.

Master The Workflow – The best feature film assistant editor training course I’ve seen (in-depth review here and 1 year later update review here) are offering $100 off their usual pricing and opening their doors for a final enrolment of 2019.

So if you’re eye-ing up moving into assistant editing in 2020 then this could be the spring board you need. Not only will you have access to a working Assistant Editor’s (secret sauce) codebook, excellent detailed online video training and lifetime access to their private members Facebook group (think jobs, 24/7 problem solving etc.) but you’ll also save $100.

Use the coupon code: BFSALE19 on from 12 am PST on Black Friday through to December 1st!

Inside The Edit – Without doubt the best documentary editing course you can take online today is Inside The Edit. I’ve written about it several times and it’s a core part of my (hypothetical) Alternate Film School for Editors.

They are offering a princely 50% off their subscription pricing from Black Friday through to Tuesday December 3rd. This means you could have life-time access to this high calibre course for only £499.

If you’ve missed this deal you can still save 25% on the course year round with the promo code: JonnyElwyn

LearnColourGrading.com – Alex Jordan who runs a popular YouTube channel on colour grading in DaVinci Resolve usually offers his 10-course in-depth training at rock-bottom prices over Black Friday. This year is no different and for just $97 you can get access to all 10 of his courses, plus his 200 LUT pack. That’s a saving of $600!

This includes life-time access to the course and free updates as they amend the teaching to keep track with DaVinci Resolve’s on-going developments. His training also covers every aspect of DaVinci Resolve including editing, grading, compositing in Fusion, using the Fairlight page and much more. The sale ends midnight on the 2nd of December.

**LowePost.com – If there has been one site that has been consistently offering incredibly good value for money it’s LowePost.com. During the past year it’s smashed out a superb series of colour grading training videos and insights from industry insiders, all for just $59 a year. That works out to less than $5 a month!

Well they seem to have come to their senses because I’ve heard that LowePost will likely be transitioning to a new price and subscription model very soon, possibly even before the end of the year. After that the price will go up, but to be fair, they’ve been under-pricing themselves for sometime!

So if you want to secure yourself an ABSOLUTE BARGAIN, be sure to sign up NOW for their incredible training at just $59. They honour a life-time price lock (for as long as you maintain your membership) so don’t miss out and sign up today at this special link!

If you want to learn more about what LowePost have to offer you can check out my detailed review here.

DECEMBER UPDATE – LowePost has now updated their prices to $15/month and $129/year, but they’re running one final sale of the year with the opportunity to lock in at just $69/year with this special link.

DivergentMedia – Fresh off the launch of Scopebox 4, Divergent Media, who also make Edit Ready 2 are offering 40% off all their products with the coupon code: “zeroIREfriday“. The sale runs from November 25th until December 6th 2019.

PDFViewer – Save 40% on one of my all-time favourite extensions for Adobe Premiere Pro, PDF Viewer. I’ve talked about it on the blog before, but just go buy it while it’s on sale with the coupon code: blackfriday40.

Frame.io – This Black Friday Frame.io are giving you the chance to make some extra cash and win some cool prizes with their referral sweep-stakes offering.

Essentially every Frame.io account (even the free ones) has a referral link that you can share with your friends and editing family to allow them to sign up for a free 14-day trial of Frame.io, just like this one.

For each friend you refer before 30th November 2019, you’ll be entered into a sweepstakes to win an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Then, when your friend upgrades to a paid plan and is active for 60 days, you’ll earn $100 (paid via PayPal).

This gif will show you how to get to your own share link from within Frame.io to enter the referral competition.

** Exclusive Discount ** – DCP-Transfer is a macOS app that allows you to correctly format off-the-shelf hard drives for Digital Cinema distribution. You can also batch copy DCPs to your drive and validate that existing or new copies are not corrupt. This app will give you the confidence to know that what you are shipping has been correctly formatted and validated.

Save 25% on all DCP-Transfer licenses with the discount code ‘JonnyE25′ until December 2nd 11.59pm.

You can learn more about DCP-Transfer and how to create DCP’s yourself in this detailed post. If you’re reading this after Black Friday, be sure to save 10% year round with the discount code ‘Jonny10‘.

CineColor LUTS – Filmmaker Noam Kroll, who makes some of my favourite LUT packs, is offering 25% off everything on his site CineColor.io, which offers a really wide range of great looking LUTs.

He’s also offering 25% off his colour grading masterclass, which I also really enjoyed and have previously reviewed in detail here.

Rampant Design Tools – Always have a big Black Friday sale and this year is no different, with 60% off all their individual products and bigger savings on their bundles, like the Ultimate Graphics Collection for only $29 (from $225). Or their Rampant Style Kit Collection down from $1014 to just $99.

Adobe Creative Cloud – If you’re not yet a subscriber to Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of apps yet, or are thinking of upgrading, then this is the best time of year to sign up. Until November 29th you can save up to 40% off All-App plans for individuals, 70% off All-App student plans and 25% off team plans.

(Psst. Even if you’re an existing customer and you just politely ask their live support chat for the deal, you might just get it anyway….)

ToolFarm – The online software warehouse will help you save up  to 50% on BorisFX bundles, 15% on Avid Media Composer and 25% on all Video CoPilot bundles and many sales from top-name brands still to come!

iZotope – Of all the audio plugins I’ve heard editors talk about, they talk about iZotopes! Right now you can save $500 on their RX Post Production Suite 4 plugin collection, as well as $100 off their magical new ‘Dialogue Match’ plugin. They also have up to 60% off many of their products, and loyalty discounts for existing customers.

iZotope also have a specific Black Friday bundle of 7 tools including Elements Suite, DDLY, Mobius Filter, and Trash 2 for just $49, instead of the normal $713!

Waves.com – Producers of many industry standard audio plugins, Waves are already offering discounts of up to 92% (!) during their Black Friday sale. There are also massive discounts on many of their bundled offers such as their Silver bundle, featuring 16 unique plugins for just $49.99 instead of the regular price of $599!

Boom Library – Sound Effects superstore Boom Library is offering some hefty discounts on their huge range of sound design and effects libraries.

For example, ‘The Complete Boom – Ultimate Surround” which features 130,000+ individual sounds and spans over 750GB+ is half price at $5,473. Or a more affordable option might include their Cinematic Strikes collection which is 20% off.

They also have a 3 for 2 offer running where the cheapest of every 3 products you purchase will be free. So if you buy 6 products you’d get the cheapest 2 for free.

Pixel Film Studios – FCPX plugin powerhouse Pixel Film Studios is offering some decent discounts on their plethora of plugins including FCPX Auto Tracker 2.1, FCPX Camera and FCPX Glitch.

PixelTools – Save 25% on PixelTools super useful PowerGrade Collection Vol. 1, a smart-money buy for colorists and editors a like from November 28th until December 2nd. Check out my previous review of them, and other 3rd party DaVinci Resolve tools here.

MisterHorse – Makers of the excellent and free Animation Composer are offering 25% off all their products from the 29th November until the 6th of December. If you’re new to After Effects and want to create better looking animations with ease, you should definitely check out what they have to offer!

FilmRiot/TriuneDigital – Save up to 80% if you’re quick during their one-day Black Friday sale on their wide range of training, colour grading and VFX related products and Film Riot merchandise.

ActionVFX.com – From November 28th until December 6th you can save up to 55% on everything they have to offer, including explosions, fireballs, particles and ‘bleeding fabric’.

FilmConvert – The makers of the ever-popular film emulation colour grading plugin, now updated to Nitrate and reviewed here, is available for it’s lowest price all year. The Nitrate bundle (for all NLEs) is down to just $129 from $249. Individual plugins for specific apps are down to just $89 from $179. No coupons or codes needed. The sales is live now and ends Tuesday December 2rd at 8am GMT.

Ripple Training.com – Save 35% on all of Ripple Training’s excellent FCPX and DaVinci Resolve training (well actually on all of their training!) during their Black Friday sale with the coupon code: “THANKS-35“. I’m a big fan of their training for it’s quality,  time-saving clarity and their superb online learning platform. The sale ends December 3rd.

Lutify.me – Makers of extensive LUT packs and a bespoke LUT preview app are offering 30% off their entire product range, with further savings on their subscription renewal prices. The sale ends at the close of Black Friday. If you’ve missed out on this deal you can save 10% year round with the coupon code: “jonnyelwyn“.

FxFactory – A one-stop-shop for a lot of really useful post production apps, FXFactory is offering 20% off everything until the 3rd of December. That includes apps like Nodes 3 from Yanobox, everything from Hawaiki, CrumblePop and many more.

CreativeLive – Are offering 60% off their Top 40 best-selling training classes until the 27th. That’s classes on photography, compositing, Photoshop, podcasting and much more for only $29.

MotionVFX – Save 30% on all of their apps, transitions, templates and plugins with the coupon code Black30. I’ve previously reviewed the powerful mFlare here and it’s excellent!

Monogram – Previously called Palette Gear, Monogram are offering $80 off all of their new console bundles from 9pm EST on the 28th through to December 2nd.

Here is a link to my original review and set up post on using Palette Gear for Film Editing.

JayAreTV – Is a popular DaVinci Resolve YouTuber who also makes a lot of handy presets and motion graphics templates for DaVinci Resolve editors and colorists. He’s offering 25% off with the code 25BFCM19

CineGrain – Are offering 50% off their high-end film grain and LUT packs, including their (normally $999) Pipeline pack which gives you ‘pixel perfect’ film emulation in an ACES pipeline.

VFXCentral.net– Save 30% on everything you put in your basket with the code blackfriday2019

Digital Rebellion – Are offering discounted prices on many of their products and services, for example the Pro Maintenance Tools are just $99 and Pro Media Tools are down to just $79.

CoreMelt – Save 30% on plugins and plugin bundles and 50% on all motion graphics templates through till Cyber Monday.

nuraphone – Creators of the best headphones I’ve ever used, are offering 3 months free on their nuranow subscription plan (the cheapest way to buy nuraphones) or 20% off the direct purchase of nuraphones and 10% off the up-coming nuraloops.

If you want to know exactly why these are the best headphones I’ve ever used and a very detailed review and Q+A with the CEO then check out my extensive review here.

TLDR: nuraphones EQ themselves to how you uniquely hear sound, ensuring that you hear everything the way it was supposed to be. They also have Active Noise Cancelling and numerous other special features.

You can save 10% year round with this referral link.

Time in Pixels – Creator of Nobe Color Remap, False Color and Nobe Display colour grading plugins is offering 35% off until December 2nd. If you miss this sale, you can save 15% year round with the coupon code: “jonnyelwyn” and check out my NCR review here.

Color.Training – Colorist Dado Valentic’s 105 lesson online colour grading course, Fundamentals of Digital Color Processing, is half price until December 2nd and their in-person commercials and feature film colour grading classes are 25% off too!

fxphd.com – Are discounting all of their high-end training by 30% until the close of Cyber Monday, including colorist Warren Eagles’ popular DaVinci Resolve colour grading training. Here’s my review of Warren’s excellent colour grading Looks course.

Color Grading Central – Creators of Cinema Grade, ColorFinale, LUT Gallery and a fully-fledged colour grading academy course are offering a massive 50% off everything until the end of Cyber Monday. Use the coupon code: blackfriday2019

Rocketstock.com – Are offering 30% off many of their products until the end of Black Friday with the coupon code: ELEMENTS30

Artlist.io – My favourite royalty free production music site (here’s a comparison post) is kindly offering 100 free sound effects to every existing and new subscriber this Black Friday. 

ArtGrid.io – Their sister site for superb value stock footage (here’s my recent comparison post) is offering 20 free LUTs to every existing and new subscriber too.

LensDistortion.com – Are offering some decent discounts, especially through their bundles, on their quality visual overlays and sound design elements, until Cyber Monday.

Red Giant have just launched Red Giant Complete – everything they make (worth $3495 if bought separately)  in one annual subscription for $599. This includes their industry leading Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite, Universe, Magic Bullet Suite and Shooter Suite.  If you do nothing else, enjoy the humorous launch video above.

If you’re an existing owner of any product suite, or have an active subscription to Universe, Red Giant is offering a special upgrade to Red Giant Complete for just $299 – that’s 50% off the first year of Red Giant Complete. Use Coupon Code: RGC50 before the 25th February 2020.

They are also giving away subscriptions to Red Giant Complete on their Twitter account so follow that for details of how to win!

Red Giant’s one-day-only year end sale will be on December 10th, with 30% off everything.

CyberMonday Post Production Sales

Some brands seem to prefer to hit CyberMonday – December 2nd – rather than Black Friday so I’ve grouped those deals here.

GreyscaleGorilla – Are offering 40% off everything in their one day sale, which starts 8am EST on Tuesday December 3rd. Hit this page to grab the discount code on December 3rd!

AEScripts – Are offering 25% off their entire library of After Effects plugins and scripts from December 2nd through to December 6th 2019.

The Best Black Friday Deals on Amazon for Film Editors

As we all know Amazon always go big during the ‘Black Friday’ sales season – which somehow they stretch out for weeks on end – so keep an eye out for limited time deals, offers leading up to Black Friday and past Cyber Monday.

I’ll keep updating this list with the best deals I spot on Amazon in the next week or so, although some of them might be time or supply limited. I’ve seen some great deals on hard drives, headphones, editing peripherals and more.

If you’re not yet an Amazon Prime subscriber I would personally highly recommend it! Not only will you get early access to some of the best deals during the sales, but you’ll get free shipping year round, access to Amazon Prime Video for shows like Mr. Robot and Homecoming (along with a zillion others) and their Prime Music service. To name just two benefits.

You can sign up for a 30-day free trial here.

Amazon Music Unlimited Special Offer

I love listening to soundtracks while I work  and so I upgraded to Amazon Music Unlimited to get access to a wider selection of music for work and play. If music is a big part of your life too, Amazon are currently running a special offer where you can get 4 months for just 99p/cents.

Thereafter it’s 7.99 a month but you can cancel at any time with no cost. So you may as well give it a go for 4 months!

Some of my favourite soundtracks to listen to on there include The Dark Knight, Interstellar, The Shawshank Redemption, Tron: Legacy, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and many more!

A Growing List of The Best Black Friday Deals for Film Editors

One of my favourite editing devices, the Elgato Stream Deck is on sale in the UK, with £35 off the usual price. Click the link to see if it’s also on sale in your country too, as all of these links should geo-locate to your local Amazon Store.

The Elgato Stream Deck is currently $99 in the US too. On November 29th until December 2nd the Stream Deck XL (32 keys) will be on sale for $199.

If you snap one up, be sure to check out this detailed post on how to set it up and get the best out of it.

I also never seem to have enough of these USB to USC-C adaptors. I’ve got these ones from nonda and they work perfectly. Currently 24% off!

Every year there are also decent discounts on computer monitors and this year is no different with 20-30+% off monitors from BenQ, ASUS, Samsung, HP, MSI, Dell, LG and others.

Blu-Ray / DVD Deals

It’s also a good time to check for discounts on blu-rays like The Dark Knight Trilogy for only £15.99.

This Ultimate Hitchcock Collection blu-ray is down is just $55 for 15 movies, 10 TV episodes and 15 hours of bonus content.

If you need some decent 4K content to test out on your big new TV then there are also offers on this range of 4K movies including The Matrix Trilogy, Jurassic Park Trilogy, Mission: Impossible – 6 Movie Collection and the Christopher Nolan 4K Collection.

There’s also up to 40% off the latest Apple iPads and 20% off the latest iPad Pros.

Hard drives and storage

Now is also a good time to stock up on your hard drive needs for the year ahead, with some steep discounts on Samsung SSD’s, Western Digital drives, LaCie, Seagate, G-Tech and more.

This page has a good collection of the offers currently available on hard drives from LaCie and Seagate. And on Black Friday itself (today) Amazon seem to have gathered all the Seagate drive offers into one page here.

Save £75 (44%) on the 1TB Samsung EVO SSD in a Black Friday deal of the day

Save $230 (48%) on 2TB Samsung T5 Portable SSD Drive

Save nearly $100 on WD My Book Duo 6TB desk top hard drive

Save £126 (34%) on 2TB Samsung T5 Portable SSD Drive

Save £126 (53%) on WD My Book 8TB Desktop Hard Drive although there are also big discounts across their entire range here.

Save £43 (34%) on G-Tech 2TB Armour All Terrain Drive (USB-C) hard drive

Save £75 (41%) on Seagate 1TB External SSD

Get 24-33% off sleek looking LaCie USB 3.0 hard drives

Save money on SanDisk Extreme and Pro level SSD storage, including 51% off Extreme Portable 1TB SSD and SanDisk Ultra 4TB SSD

Get up to 30% off Lexar Professional SD and SDXC cards

Up to 40% off Crucial SSDs and RAM to upgrade your computer at a more affordable price

Save up to 65% on PNY USB 3.0 128GB flash drives

Keyboards and Peripherals

There are some really good deals on top of the line keyboards and mice from Corsair and Razer to be found here.

Save 38% ($30) on the Razer Tartarus single-handed gaming keypad (a bit like the now discontinued Logitech G-13)

Save 45% ($45) on the Razer Naga Trinity Gaming Mouse – a bit like the one the Mission:Impossible editor, Eddie Hamilton uses here.

Save £49 (33%) on Corsair’s popuar K70 RGB Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Switches

Save £41 (42%) on Razer Ornata Chroma Mechanical Keyboard with Mecha Membrane Switches

Save £25 (33%) on Corsair Scimater Pro RGB Gaming Mouse with 12 programmable side buttons

Save $115 on MXL 770 Cardioid Condenser Microphone

Get up to 57% off Audio Technica AT2020 Cardioid Condenser Microphones

Save 39% $57 on the Shure SM-57 microphone 

Adjustable Suspension Scissor Arm for Microphones, including shock mount and table clamp

Half price on some cheap but pretty decent Logitech Computer Speakers if you need something portable.

Headphones

My post on The Best Headphones for Film Editors has been one of the most popular on this site, so maybe have a read of that too.

Here’s a quick link to all of Amazon’s offers on headphones in the UK from brands like Bose, Sennheiser, Sony and more.

Save £80 on a pair of the ever popular Bose QuietComfort 35 (Series II) headphones

Save 50% on Sennheiser HD 599 Open Back headphones down to just £89.99 from £179.99 or in the US $99.95 down from $199.95

Save £220 (49%) on Bang & Olufsen Beoplay H9i wireless headphones.

Save £155 on Bang & Olufsen Beoplay E8 Premium Wireless ear buds

Save £92 (52%) on Audio Technica ATH-MX50 Headphones

Save $111 (55%) on the Shure SE215-CL in-ear monitors

Save 20% on Ultimate Ears Boom 3 portable bluetooth speakers. – These make a great gift so if you’re stuck on what to get someone, give them one of these!

Black Friday Deals on Interesting Gear and Fun Things

You can pick up an Amazon Fire 7 Tablet for just £29.99 during Black Friday. Pop in a micro SD card and you’ve got a portable training library on the cheap.

If you want to keep tabs on your expensive gear, especially while working on set, then these bluetooth trackers from Tile are up to 50% off and the battery should last for 3 years.

Save 53% ($47.99) on an Amazon Fire TV Stick and Echo Dot (3rd Gen). The Echo Dot was Amazon’s most popular selling device during last year’s Black Friday.

Save $40 on the super useful Pelican Case 1510 with customisable foam inserts. There are further discounts on a even wider range of Pelican cases here. There’s 30% off selected Pelican cases in the US today!

You can save £700 on LG’s entry OLED 55″ TV the B9 down to just £1,099. Here’s a post I wrote on using an OLED TV for post production.

If you don’t already use an electric toothbrush, or brush consistently for at least 2 minutes a time, then one of these bad boys, on sale for just £49.99 (saving £120!) could be the best way to good dental health!

Up to 50% off selected Nerf toy guns. You know… for the office.

Save money on Nest Smart Home products including thermostat and security cameras.

Save 10% on Sony’s high end home cinema projectors

Sony’s home audio products including Dolby Atmos enabled speakers, subwoofers and surround sound receivers are all nicely discounted. And there’s up to 48% off Samsung Harman Kardon Sound Bars too.

You can save hundreds, and even thousands of dollars on Samsung’s Series 7 4K TVs ranging from (reasonable) 50 to 85 (massive) inches!