The Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for Film Editors

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Black Friday 2022 Deals for Film Editors
Post Production Promo Codes and Discounts
The Best Amazon Black Friday Deals for Film Editors 2022

Black Friday 2022 (November 25th) is nearly upon us, with deep discounts on post production services, software and essential gear, already appearing online.

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 essential businesses.

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 two to see if new deals are available for the thing you’re after, as I will be updating this post daily.

For others of them, I’m guessing that if they ran a Black Friday deal last year, they may well this year. But just because I’ve listed them early on, doesn’t guarantee that they will!

Here’s a shortlist of the Black Friday Deals for Film Editors 2022:

Special Deals on B&H Photo – Grading panels, monitors and more
Kharma LUTS – Instantly Popular New Film Emulations LUTS 30-40% off
Mixing Light – All-Access for a year for just $324. EXPIRES 29/11/22 – code: CYBER50
Master The Workflow – Save $200 on the best Feature Film Assistant Training there is!
Waqas Qazi Freelance Colorist Course – Save $300 on 27 hours of detailed training with code: JE-BLACKFRIDAY-T9YAKF7
BackBlaze – 20% off – Discount code: BLAZEON22
Inside The Edit – 50% off subscriptions for new members
Masterclass.com – World class teachers, 2-4-1 discount (find a friend, get it half price!)
The Go-To Editor – Up to $150 off bundled training
LowePost – Lock in 15% discount for the lifetime of your membership
Ravengrade – Save up to 40% on Ravengrade Complete, all grading tools & training
EditMentor – Save $399 on bundled training from This Guy Edits and Stephen Mark, ACE
Hedge – 20-40% off apps like Hedge, Postlab, EditReady, Scopebox, Canister and more!
Riverside.fm – Best way to record video calls/intervies/podcasts – 50% off – code: BF22
Adobe Creative Cloud – Up to 40% off All App Subscriptions
LearnColorGrading.com – Get $600 off an epic collection of Resolve Training
Knights of the Editing Table – Up to 20% off Premiere Pro Extensions
RippleTraining.com – 40% off everything – Discount code: harvest-40
PixelTools – 40% off excellent Film Emulation PowerGrades – code: BLACKFRIDAY2022
SideShowFX – 30% off icon packs for StreamDeck/Loupedeck – Code: Y5AJGTF
TimeInPixels – 30% off Nobe Omniscope, Color Remap etc. – Code: PIXELSBF22
FilmConvert & Cinematch – All plugins just $99 or bundle for $149, Save 10% EXTRA here!
iZotope – Popular audio plugins bundled to rock bottom prices, starting at $25
Telestream – 20% off ScreenFlow and other products
Action V FX.com – Up to 50% off 4K VFX elements
Boris FX – 25% off everything, including Continuum, Sapphire and Mocha Pro!
MotionVFX – 30% off everything with code: black30, 50% off specific plugins/templates
FXFactory – 30% off site wide with promo code: BLACKFRIDAY
Boom Library – 3-for-2 on 100+ sound effects packs and huge bundled discounts
Parsec – 20% off new subscriptions for individuals – Code: MERRYWARP2022
Avid Media Composer – 20% off new, one year subscriptions before Dec 31st 2021
ToolFarm – Huge discounts on a vast range of Post software, plugins and scripts
Demystify-Color – Up to 30% off film emulations, colour charts and training
FX Elements – 40% off annual subscriptions to 4K ProRes VFX elements
Tezarre – Affordable mechanical keyboards that are 50% off
Huion – Up to 30% off high quality pen display tablets
Digital Rebellion – 30% off everything!
Topaz Labs – Save up to 65% on AI powered scaling, sharpening and more
Video CoPilot – 25% off After Effects plugins from everyone’s favourite instructor
aescripts + aeplugins – Get 25% off everything aescripts has to offer
MASV – Save up to 40% on 50TB of credits or 10% on 1TB
MZED – $150 off their all-access membership plus chance to win $7K of gear!
FXPHD.com – 30% off annual memberships, New Resolve courses and Intro to HDR
WASD Keyboards – 20% off popular bespoke mechanical keyboards – Code: WASDBF
Jigsaw24 – 30% off Pro Tools, 20% off Avid Media Composer and discounts on Post gear
Mister Horse – 25% off their entire library of animations, templates, presets and more
Cinema Grade – 50% off tactile grading app & training academy – Code: BlackFriday22
Video Game Trailers – 50% off Derek Lieu’s trailer training Code: 2022-CATLOAF-FRIDAY
Color Finale – FCPX’s flagship colour grading plugin is up to 60% off when bundled
A Sound Effect – Up to 81% off 1500+ sound effects libraries, plugins and instruments
Shotdeck – Get 30% off every DP and Colorist’s favourite resource – Code: blackfriday22
LearnSquared – 50% off professional level training for VFX, concept and CGI artists
GoSkills – 50% off training you need for the business side of creativity – Code: BFCW50
Recut – Automate your audio edit and get 50% off
CineColor – Excellent LUTS are 40% off site wide plus an extra $15 off with code: BF15

The Best Black Friday Deals for Editors on Amazon

I’ve also culled Amazon’s Black Friday deals to cherry pick the best deals that professionals working in post production would do well to consider.

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I’ll update this post as deals become available but a few highlights from last year included:

Bargains on hard drives
High quality headphones on sale
Discounts on Stream Decks
Sales on high-end keyboards and peripherals
Blu-Ray and DVD collections at a discount
Deals on interesting things like Tiles, TVs and electric toothbrushes

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

Don’t Have Money? Want Some Freebies?

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.

For example, you can save 20% on Riverside.fm, my favourite way to record remote interviews for optimal results with the discount code: jonnyelwyn.

Or Pond5 are offering $3500 worth of holiday themed stock assets for free until January 1st, which surely will come in handy at some point! They’re free now, so squirrel them away…

Black Friday Deals and Discounts for Video Editors

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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 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!

Special Deals on B&H PHOTO

20% off Tangent Colour Grading Panels ($180 off Wave2, $664 off Elements Suite)
$1000 off LG 32EP950 OLED Grading Monitor
$200 off LG 32UQ85R-W IPS Black Self Calibrating Colour Grading Monitor
DaVinci Resolve Studio and Speed Editor Keyboard bundle for $395

SPECIAL MENTION – KHARMA FILM EMULATION LUTS

Ravengrade.com’s latest addition, a set of 9 meticulously crafted film emulation Kharma LUTS are apparently selling like hot cakes, so it feels worth mentioning them while they’re on offer!

The 9 Kharma LUTs are generated with true film spectral and colorimetry data from specific film stocks and emulates:

Kodak Vision3 5203
Kodachrome 5268
Fuji Eterna
Ektachrome 7294
Fuji Eterna SR12
Kodak Vision3 2383
Eastman EXT Color Print Film 2386
and Fuji 3510.

Created in close interaction with the industry and renowned image scientists.
Ravengrade.com

The Kharma LUTs come as part of the Ravengrade Complete package (40% off right now) or the Grading Tools Selection (30% off) – but you’ll also be locking in that discount for the lifetime of your subscription – so don’t miss out on this time-limited offer and lock in savings for years to come!

MIXING LIGHT – 2 DAY SALE ONLY

Pro Training from Professional Colorists

Mixing Light – The essential colour grading community, Mixing Light’s new ‘not a subscription’ offering gives you All-Access for a single year for just $324.

1000+ Individual tutorials and Insights
5 Stand alone training courses
Extensive professional shot practice media
Access to private forums

Buying everything that’s included individually would normally cost $511, that’s is then bundled into the regular price of $374 but you can save a total of $187 with the extra $50 discount!

Use the code CYBER50 before Midnight on Tuesday 29th November 2022.

MASTER THE WORKFLOW

Master The Workflow is starting their Black Friday sale early this year on Wednesday November 23rd until 11.59 (PST) on Monday 28th November 2022 with a huge $200 discount.

Normally $997 but now down to $797, this is likely to be the very best price you can secure life-time access to their excellent Assistant Editor training all year, so don’t miss out!

The full Master The Workflow course is the best feature film assistant editor training I’ve ever seen and you can read my in-depth review here and 1 year later update review here.

Top 3 Benefits of MTW membership:

The Best Assistant Editor Industry Training Around
An Assistant Editor’s Digital Codebook (plus updates)
Access to MTW Private Alumni Group (Jobs, Help, Connections!)

If you’re looking to become an Assistant Editor working in scripted film and TV, you need to learn how to use and run a Codebook, to keep track of everything coming into and out of editorial.

Normally, Assistant Editors keep their Codebooks as closely guarded secret sauce, yet 1st Assistant Editor Richard Sanchez is levelling the playing field by giving you access to his.

Richard has used and updated this FileMakerPro Codebook over the past several years on movies and TV shows such as Bill & Ted – Face The Music, Sweet Tooth, Robin Hood and more…

You can’t get this kind of access to a professional Codebook and training anywhere else!

WAQAS QAZI FREELANCE COLORIST

Waqas Qazi Freelance Colorist Course – $300 off (~~$997~~) this popular 27 hour training course which aims to take you from a standing start to landing paying gigs as a freelance colorist.

Waqas has been sharing his knowledge and experience on YouTube clocking up 326,000 subscribers in just 3 years.

This rare Black Friday sale ends at midnight on the 28th November 2022.

Use the code: JE-BLACKFRIDAY-T9YAKF7 to save $300 at the checkout.

Act fast! Extra $100 off: Right now there’s an extra $100 off, so a $400 saving in total when you hit the course page, so click through and see if this bonus discount is still running!

I’ve previously reviewed this exceptionally comprehensive course, which covers topics others don’t touch, in quite some detail here.

MASTERCLASS.COM

Masterclass.com – I’m a massive fan of Masterclass.com, and try to use their huge and growing library of world class experts to learn something new almost every week.

You can learn skate boarding from Tony Hawk, magic from Penn and Teller or screenwriting from Aaron Sorkin, directing from Ron Howard or Texas-style BBQ mastery from Aaron Franklin. (Yum!)

Masterclass are once again running a Buy One Gift One promotion during the holiday season. Only new customers are eligible to make the purchase, but they can gift the 2nd membership to an existing Masterclass member, to extend their access for another 365 days.

So find a friend and split the cost between you to effectively get a year of Masterclass for half price!

This would make an amazing Christmas gift for anyone with a curiosity for learning and the world-class experts they have in their library are unparalleled.

Don’t miss out on this excellent opportunity to enjoy Masterclass throughout 2023!

BACKBLAZE

Get 50% off this pricing, only during their 3 day sale!

BackBlaze – Get 20% off unlimited cloud backups of your edit suite and all your connected drives with the discount code: blazeon22 from November 25th til midnight on the 28th November 2022.

So you could get two years of unlimited data backed up to the cloud, for just over $50/year!

INSIDE THE EDIT

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 Alternate Film School for Editors.

Once again they are offering a massive 50% off subscriptions for all new members and 50% off any upgrades for existing members.

Use the code: BF22 at check out to get year of unparalleled editing training for just £149 or for life for just £499!

Missed the sale? Use code “JONNYELWYN20” to get 20% off year round!

THIS GUY EDITS – GO-TO EDITOR COURSES

This Guy Edits, Go-To Editor 3.0 Training – Hugely popular YouTuber and Editing instructor, This Guy Edits’ unique training courses are on sale across Black Friday (24/11-27/11) and Cyber Monday (28/11-30/11):

Black Friday – $75 off Go-To Editor 3.0 – Code: JustEdit75
Black Friday –The Film Editing Formula for $37 instead of $97 – Code: JustEdit37
Cyber Monday: $150 off The Complete Bundle (Go-To Editor, Film Editing Formula, Editor’s Survival Guide to Networking, Secret Editing Hacks XL) – Code: JustEdit150
Cyber Monday – 3h Live Webinar (on 12/10) The Editor’s Survival Guide to Networking, for $97 instead of $197 – Code: JustEdit97
Cyber Monday – 3h Live Webinar (on 12/3) The Film Editing Formula, for $47 instead of $97 – Code: JustEdit47

I’ve previously reviewed the course in detail here, and written about three graduates of the course who won the opportunity to edit a real feature off the back of it here. The business tactics and career advancement strategies Sven shares make The Go-To Editor a core part of my Alternative Film School for Editors.

LOWEPOST / RAVENGRADE

Ravengrade – Creators of high-end colour grading tools and training are offering up to 40% off their Ravengrade complete bundle, normally $228 for only $137/year for life!

Ravengrade Complete includes the flagship Cinelook plugin, Mira Powergrades, Master Tone and Daro Cinema Looks, which were designed by colorist and colour scientists who have worked on countless high-end productions.

Check out my detailed review of the Ravengrade CineLook film emulation plugin here, it’s a finely tuned colour grading tool, created by professional colorists for professional colorists!

LowePost – One of my favourite post production training sites is offering 15% off annual subscriptions for the lifetime of your membership, so you’ll keep saving (and learning) year after year!

EDIT MENTOR

Edit Mentor – Save $399 when you buy a double workshop bundle of training, featuring This Guy Edits Youtube Kickstarter & Stephen Mark, ACE Advanced Film Editing, for just $199.

Edit Mentor creates training unlike anyone else and these two editors are at the top of their game! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn new skills and fresh approaches to the craft. Offer ends December 2nd 2022.

HEDGE / POST LAB / EDITREADY / SCOPEBOX / MIMIQ / CANISTER

Hedge / PostLab / EditReady / Scopebox / – Save up to 29% on my favourite offload and checksum verification tool, Hedge, plus a ton of other once-a-year offers:

29% off Extended Hedge = $99 for a further 2 years updates and support
20% off EditReady = $59
34% off Scopebox = $99
39% off The Full Monty includes the whole suite of Hedge Desktop apps – Hedge, Foolcat, Canister, Checkpoint, EditReady, Mimiq and ScopeBox = $499
50% off The Hedge Fund (Year round offer) = Buy $1000 worth of credit for $500

If you know you’re going to be spending with Hedge in the next few years, the ‘Hedge Fund’ offer lets you get $1000 worth of credit for $499, to use on any of their products – even those yet to come!

Hedge’s Black Friday Deals end at midnight on November 30th.

RIVERSIDE.FM

I’m a huge fan of Riverside.fm, it’s the best way I’ve found of recording video calls and remote interviews for later editing. Ditch Zoom and use Riverside instead.

They’re offering 50% off annual plans with the code BF22 until November 29th 2022.

You an get 20% off both monthly or annual plans with the code: jonnyelwyn

ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD

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 25th you can save between 25% and 40% off All-App plans for individuals, 70% off All-App student plans and 25% off Team plans. Sale prices vary depending on your region.

(Psst. Even if you’re an existing customer and you’ve been on a discounted deal since last year, you can just politely ask their live support chat for the new deal or to renew on discounted rate, you may well just get it anyway….)

LEARN COLOR GRADING / FILM SIMPLIFIED

DaVinci Resolve Training Black Friday Sale

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 and this year is no different with a huge $600 discount available until 30th November.

This includes life-time access to the courses and free updates as they amend the teaching to keep track with DaVinci Resolve’s on-going developments. Alex’s training includes 500 clips of practice media, 200 LUTs, title and also covers every aspect of DaVinci Resolve including editing, grading, compositing in Fusion, using the Fairlight page and much more.

KNIGHTS OF THE EDITING TABLE

Knights of the Editing Table – Makers of some superb and time-saving extensions for Adobe Premiere Pro editors, such as their ‘Grave Robber’ tool, which takes nested clips and un-nests them in place, are offering 20% off from November 25th to December 2nd 2022.

PIXEL TOOLS

PixelTools – Until midnight on Cyber Monday (28/11) you can get 40% off their over 120 DaVinci Resolve PowerGrades and utility presets with the coupon code: BLACKFRIDAY2022.

I’ve recently reviewed their excellent Film Emulation PowerGrades here too.

Don’t miss this as it’s their best sale of the year!

RIPPLE TRAINING

Ripple Training – Use the promo code harvest-40 to get 40% off everything you put in your cart (excluding bundles and FX Factory plugins) from one of Apple’s recommended training partners.

Ripple Training produce some of the easiest to follow learning available today, with one of the best online training platforms around. So you’d be wise to check out their:

IZOTOPE AUDIO PLUGINS

iZotope – Creator of many an editor’s favourite audio repair and rescue plugins, are offering some massive discounts across their product line, including:

RX 10 Elements on sale for only $99 (~~$129~~)
RX 10 Stand a rd on sale for only $299 (~~$399~~)
RX 10 Advanced on sale for only $799 (~~$1199~~)
RX Post Production Suite on sale for only $999 (~~$1999~~) – 50% off!
iZotope Everything Bundle on sale for only $1249 (~~$2499~~) – 50% off!

I previously reviewed iZotope’s RX7 Advanced suite in this round up of Audio Plugins for Film Editors.

SIDESHOW FX

Sideshowfx – Creators of thousands of custom icons and pre-built profiles for devices such as the Stream Deck, Loupedeck and Touch Portal are offering 30% off everything they make, during their Black Friday to Cyber Monday sale. Use discount code: Y5AJGTF

Check out my detailed post on setting up a Stream Deck for editing and grading to learn more about sideshowfx’s unique products.

TIME IN PIXELS

Nobe Color Remap Overlay mode — Save 30% on Nobe OmniScope, Nobe Display and Nobe Color Remap

Time in Pixels – Creator of respected Nobe OmniScope, Nobe Display and Nobe Color Remap and False Color plugins is offering 30% off everything from November 25th until November 28th. Use the discount code: PIXELSBF22

FILMCONVERT & CINEMATCH

FilmConvert – Makers of popular film emulation and grading plugin FilmConvert Nitrate and the new Cinematch camera matching system, are offering 40-50% off individual plugins from the 21st to 28th November 2022.

Individual plugin licenses will be just $99, and bundles will be $149 – which are the lowest prices you’ll see all year! But you can save an extra 10% off ($89/$134) with this link!

Telestream – Are offering 20% off all of their software products including the incredibly useful screen-recording app, ScreenFlow. There is also 20% off Wirecast if you’re handling live-streaming.

ActionVFX.com – Creators of action orientated VFX elements including explosions, fire, smoke, gun effects, debris and impacts and blood and gore are offering a mighty 55% off during their Black Friday sale, which runs from November 22nd to November 25th.

MotionVFX – Are giving you the chance to save up to 50% on their entire product range with the discount code “black30” from now until Cyber Monday.

Each week four of their top products will be 50% off but this range changes each week. Some of their most popular products for FCPX include mFilmLook and mFlare2 – which I’ve reviewed here.

BORIS FX

Boris FX – Creators of some of the film and TV industry’s (especially Avid Editors) favourite plugins and VFX software are offering 25% off everything for one week only, November 21st to November 27th 2022.

Save up to $699 on Boris FX Sapphire
Save up to $499 on Boris FX Continuum
Save up to $374 on Boris FX Mocha Pro

FXFactory – Get a massive 30% off site wide with the promo code: BLACKFRIDAY from November 22nd until November 29th. This includes high end plugins and software for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

Boom Library – Is a massive (800+GB!) sound effects library comprised of over 43,000 wav files. You can buy the whole thing outright for $6,649 (at 50% off from over $13k!) or more affordably, get 3-for-2 on their 100+ individual sound effects collections until December 1st.

Parsec – Remotely access your office or client computers fromSave 20% on new annual Warp (individual) subscriptions with the discount code MERRYWARP2022 at checkout until 3/1/2023. Benefits of upgrading from free to Warp include: 4:4:4 colour mode, Wacom support and multiple monitors.

Avid Media Composer – Save 20% on new Media Composer one-year licenses until 4th January 2023.

Toolfarm – Plugins, scripts and niche After Effects goodies are all on sale through the Toolfarm warehouse. Have a rummage for up to 50% off popular post-production tools from Video CoPilot, Boris FX, AEJuice, NewBlueFX and more.

De-mystify Color – Colorist Nico Wieseneder is offering some solid discounts on his film emulation PowerGrades, colour test charts and custom node trees until Sunday, December 5th, 2022.

FX Elements – Are offering 40% off their annual subscriptions – with the price locked in for life – until November 27th. So you can get all 4K Pro Res assets for just $99/year for as long as your subscription stays active.

Tezarre – Affordable mechanical keyboards that are 50% off during Black Friday with the discount code BFCM. A great opportunity to try one of these on the cheap. If you’ve missed the sale don’t worry, use coupon code JONNYELWYN to get 25% off year round!

HUION PEN DISPLAYS

Huion – are offering up to 30% off their excellent pen display tablets, or $130 off items like the Huion Kamvas Pro 16 Plus (4K) which I have previously reviewed in great detail here.

Digital Rebellion – Makers of the endlessly useful Post Haste, CinePlay, Pro Maintenance Tools and Pro Media Tools are offering 30% off their desktop products and also on the self-hosted Kollaborate Server until Cyber Monday (Nov 28th 2022.)

Kollaborate Server (self-hosted): $419-$1049, depending on options chosen (normally $599-$1499)
Kollaborate Encoder (self-hosted): $139 (normally $199)
Pro Maintenance Tools – $99 (normally $129)
Pro Media Tools – $69 (normally $99)
CinePlay – $19 (normally $29)

Topaz Labs – Are a trusted AI tool creator for massively upscaling, sharpening, denoising and enhancing your digital assets. Save up to 63% on their everything bundle (~~$758~~ = $279) or get their Video AI Toolset for just $159 (~~$299~~).

Video CoPilot – Save 25% on Video CoPilot plugins Element 3D and Optical Flares, plus on bundled shaders, motion elements, lighting packs and much more!

aescripts + aeplugins – There’s a better way to do what you’re trying to do in After Effects and AE Scripts has it. Save 25% on everything they offer until December 2nd.

MASV – Send huge files quickly and securely and save up to 40% on 50TB of credits or 10% on 1TB. The more you spend the more you’ll save.

MZed – Offer an impressive training academy featuring First Man and La La Land editor Tom Cross and DP Shane Hurlbut ASC among many others. Their Black Friday sale runs from November 23rd until November 26th and includes:

30% off Tom Cross The Art and Technique of Film Editing Course (normally $249) – 8+ hours!
Year’s membership to MZed Pro for only $199 (save $150) delivering 450 lessons over 36 courses worth $9000, if you bought them individually!
30% off all individual courses, including DaVinci Resolve training

FXPHD – Get 30% off colorist Warren Eagles brand new DaVinci Resolve 18 training, Colorist Kevin Shaw’s Introduction to HDR and site wide membership to 270+ professional VFX courses including Unreal Engine, Houdini, Maya and many more!

WASD Keyboards – 20% off everything store wide with the code WASDBF, until Monday 28th November. WASD make some hugely popular and completely customisable mechanical keyboards.

MisterHorse – Creators of the hugely popular Animation Composer, are dropping 25% from their entire library of After Effects and Premiere Pro presets, transitions, motion graphics and more. The sale runs for the next 7 days, starting November 25th.

Jigsaw24 – Have some solid deals including 30% off Pro Tools, 20% off Avid Media Composer and discounts on gear from Blackmagic Design, AJA, Audio Technica and others.

FSI Monitors – Get $500 off any of their professional colour grading monitors until the 28th November. Only two per customer in case you were feeling greedy!

Color Grading Central – Are offering a massive 50% off their training academy, Cinema Grade plugins for Mac and Pc and LUT packs until the end of Cyber Monday.

Derek Lieu Game Trailer Course – Learn to edit video game trailers like a professional and save between 50-33% on the price, depending on how quickly you act now! Use coupon code: 2022-CATLOAF-FRIDAY at checkout.

Color Finale – FCPX’s flagship colour grading plugin, Color Finale 2, is up to 60% off when bundled with supporting apps, Color Finale LUT Manager and Color Finale Transcoder, training and LUT packs.

A Sound Effect – Up to 81% off 1500+ premium sound effects libraries, plugins and instruments. All orders include a free 30 SFX bonus pack and 60+ page Sound Success Guide e-book.

Shotdeck – Get 30% off every DP, DIT and Colorist’s favourite new resource, Shot Deck is a massive searchable (and growing) archive of the very best cinematography from cinematic history. Save $30 on an annual subscription with the code: blackfriday22

LearnSquared – Creators of professional level training for VFX, Concept and CGI artists with courses from some of the industry’s brightest minds, are offering 50% off everything until November 30th.

You can sign up for free and watch the first lesson of each course with topics such as VFX in Unreal, CGI Filmmaking, Advanced Matte Painting, Style Frames, HUD design and much more!

GoSkills – Offer video training to help you acquire all the other skills you need to succeed as a freelancer such as learning to use Excel, leadership and project management skills and other interesting things. Everything is 50% off with the code: BFCW50

Recut – Automate your audio edit with this neat little app that is 50% off until the end of Cyber Monday. Recut automatically chops out the silent gaps between speech in a jiffy.

CINECOLOR

CineColor.io – Filmmaker Noam Kroll is behind these excellent LUT and film grain packs over at CineColor.io that are genuinely worth paying for and I’ve reviewed them here.

From now until midnight on the 28th November 2022 you can save 40% on everything they offer including their technical LUTs, film emulations, textures and film grain packs.

You can get a further $15 off, on top of the 40% discount, with the code: BF15

There are also several FREE LUTs which are also worth grabbing too.

Cyber Monday Post Production Sales

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Some post production companies prefer to avoid the crush of Black Friday itself and prefer to offer their deals after the weekend on ‘Cyber Monday’ – this year the 28th of November.

Last year this included GreyscaleGorilla and AE Scripts.

I’ll update this section of the post in due course!

The Best Black Friday Deals on Amazon for Film Editors

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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.

Amazon have opened up their Black Friday Week Deals already, many of which are time or stock limited so check back frequently.

These links should all geo-locate and attempt to find the same deals in your local Amazon store so click through to see if the same deal is available to you.

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, if you’re reading this a bit later on.

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 which has a strong catalogue of original soundtracks to listen to.

To name just two benefits.

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

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Save $55 (46%) on a refurbished Amazon Fire HD 10 with a 1080p screen and 32GB of space, and turn it into a portable training library by downloading tons of tutorials onto it like I do, thanks to massively expandable external storage through the SD card slot.

Or get up to 50% off brand new Amazon Fire 8 tablets with 1080p screens and 32GB of internal storage. That’s a handy portable tablet for around $50!

Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K (2nd & 3rd Gen) are currently 50% off at only $24.99

Using a StreamDeck for video Editing — Save 20% on the superb Elgato Stream Deck

The Best Amazon Black Friday Deals for Post Production Professionals 2022

I’ve reviewed a lot of gear for film editors over the years from headphones to hard drives to editing peripherals – you can find quick links to them all right here.

Deals that aren’t really deals – Before you smash that buy button, it’s also worth using a price history site like Honey to double check whether any particular deal is actually authentic or just manufactured through a (suddenly) high RRP and sale price to create a discount difference.

Big TVs, Computer Monitors and Home Cinema Deals

Headphones

Good Cheap Pair of Headphones! Sennheiser HD 206 for only $20
Save $80 (24%) on Bose QuietComfort 45 wireless headphones
Save $30 (18%) on Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro Headphones – Best for Film Editors!

Cheap big hard drives and fast SSD video editing storage

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Blu-Ray and 4K Collections

Mice, Keyboards, Studio Monitors, Microphones and other Editing Peripherals

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Check out my review of the best mice for film editing here, including how Mission:Impossible Rogue Nation/Fallout editor Eddie Hamilton sets up his Razer Naga mouse.

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