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Most popular posts on the blog

There are over 800 plus posts on this blog and so finding what you’re after might become a challenging exercise, especially as the site continues to grow.

To answer that challenge this resources page will give you a jumping off point to the all-time Top 5 Most Popular Posts in each topic category.

You can also use the search icon in the menu bar to search the entire site for a specific set of keywords, or rummage in the ‘Browse by Topic Category’ list, to jump to a complete list of every post in that category. Also just above the ebook banner, you’ll see a short list of the 5 most popular posts on blog right now.

Lastly, if you never want to miss a post you can sign up to the free weekly digest which compiles together any new posts from that week and delivers them straight to your inbox, in one handy email.

*These stats are calculated from the site’s all-time most popular pages, which does often weight them towards older posts, which have been around longer acquiring more views. Therefore I will periodically update this page to reflect any changes to include newer posts.

* These stats are now calculated as the site’s most popular posts in the past 365 days.

Latest updated: January 2024

Top 5 Posts for Editing Gear

1. Affordable Colour Grading Monitors

2. The Best Headphones for Film Editors

3. What’s the best hard drive for video editing?

4. Using the Stream Deck+ for Video Editing and Colour Grading

5. Affordable Colour Grading Control Surfaces

Top 5 Posts for Post-Production Workflow

1. How to Make a DCP for Film Festival Projection

2. How to Record a Zoom Meeting in High Quality for Video Editing

3. The Best AI Tools for Video and Audio Post Production

4. Colour Management for Video Editors

5. Using the DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor in Other Video Editing Apps

Top 5 Posts for Free Downloads

1. Free Film LUTS for Editors, DITs and Colorists

2. Post Production Promo Codes and Freebies

3. Download Free Lens Flares

4. Download Free Film Grain and Light Leaks

5. Free Video Editing Software for Beginners

Top 5 Posts for Colour Grading

1. Affordable Colour Grading Monitors

2. Colour Management for Video Editors

3. Affordable Colour Grading Control Surfaces

4. Five Books on Colour Grading And Colour Science

5. Using an OLED TV for Post Production

Top 5 Posts for DaVinci Resolve

1. Learn Colour Grading from Professional Colorists

2. Using the DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor in Other Video Editing Apps

3. Controlling DaVinci Resolve with the Stream Deck+

4. Learn High End Finishing Techniques in DaVinci Resolve Fusion

5. Better Colour Grading in Black and White

Top 5 Posts for Editing Craft

1. Inside Professional Editing Timelines

2. Explore Professional Film Editing Timelines

3. The Best High End Video Stock Footage Sites Compared

4. How to Edit a Movie Trailer

5. Film Editing Pro, The Art of Drama Editing – Review

Top 5 Posts for Assistant Editors

1. Inside an Assistant Editor’s Codebook

2. Using Virtual Machines to Video Edit in the Cloud

3. How to Be a VFX Editor

4. How to become an Avid Assistant Editor Overnight

5. Understanding the Power of Film Editing

Top 5 Posts for Books

1. Five Books on Colour Grading And Colour Science

2. How To Be a Succesful Freelance Creative

3. Five Books on Film Editing for 2019

4. Five Free Books Every Editor Should Read

5. Five Books To Help You Learn How To Be A DIT

Top 5 Posts for Premiere Pro

1. Adding Captions in Premiere Pro – Fix Common Problems

2. Audio Post Plugins for Film Editors

3. Inside Mindhunter’s Post Production

4. Editing Feature Films in Premiere Pro

5. Creating, Using and Selling Premiere Pro MOGRT files

Top 5 Posts for After Effects/Cinema 4D

1. Learning Fusion for After Effects Users

2. After Effects for Film Editors Part 1

3. After Effects for Film Editors Part 8 – New Plugins

4. After Effects for Film Editors Part 2 – Tutorials

5. After Effects for Editors Part 4 – Useful Things

Top 5 Posts for Avid Media Composer

1. How to become an Avid Assistant Editor Overnight

2. Master The Workflow Editing Assistant Course Review

3. Learn Documentary Editing from Professional Editors

4. Three Essential Books on Editing in Avid

5. Every New Feature in Avid Media Composer 8.6

Top 5 Posts for Final Cut Pro X

1. Free FCPX Effects and Plugins

2. Editing in FCPX like Thomas Grove Carter

3. Understanding the FCPX Magnetic Timeline

4. Freebies for FCPX

5. 72 FCPX Tips from Ripple Training Live

Top 5 Posts for DIT

1. Free Film LUTS for Editors, DITs and Colorists

2. DIT Tools for 2018

3. DIT Tools Reviewed – How to Be a DIT Part 18

4. How To Be A DIT – The Complete Series

5. Five Books To Help You Learn To Be A DIT

Top 5 Posts for Sound Design

1. The Best Studio Monitors for an Edit Suite

2. Audio Post Plugins for Film Editors

3. Hans Zimmer Composing Masterclass – An Editor’s Review

4. The Best Royalty Free Production Music Sites

5. What is the Best Microphone for Recording Voice Over?

Top 10 Posts for Film Making ofs

1. Inside the Oscar Winning Editing of Dunkirk

2. Inside Mindhunter‘s Post Production

3. Making Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

4. The Making of a Classic – Editing Heat

5. Editing Mission:Impossible Fallout

6. Star Wars Editor Paul Hirsch Memoir – Reviewed

7. Editing Deadpool and Hail, Caesar! in Premiere Pro

8. The Making of Mad Max: Fury Road

9. The Making of Gone Girl

10. The Making of Blade Runner 2049

The Best DVD and Blu Ray Extras for Film Editors – Recently updated!

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