Posted on April 17, 2012 in Digital Effects, Editing | 3 Comments
This video tutorial, by Jarle Leirpoll, teaches how to do primary, secondary and some pretty advanced color correction in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. You’ll learn how to create masks for color correction inside of Premiere Pro, and to tweak parts of the image without affecting others.
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Posted on March 28, 2012 in Editing | No Comments
Panasonic Post Expert Peter Putnam talks about the what to look for when comparing professional grade video monitors.
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Posted on March 21, 2012 in Digital Effects, Editing | No Comments
Using the standard tools in After Effects Shortformvideos creates a slightly retro-looking LCD display like the ones you’ll find on older MP3 players. No plug-ins required.
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Posted on February 29, 2012 in Editing | 2 Comments
Presynkt Productions demonstrates their Red Scarlet workflow from ingesting into Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and coloring in DaVinci Resolve.
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Posted on February 23, 2012 in 3D Graphics, Credits, Digital Effects, Editing | 1 Comment
Need some inspiration? South by Southwest Film and Music Festival released a list of the finalists in the Title Sequence Category from Film and Television productions. The final awards will be present on Tuesday, March 13 at 8pm.
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Posted on February 20, 2012 in Editing, Selling Your Film | No Comments
It was Harry Tatelman’s job to convert Universal’s films into television fare by taking out the foul language, and some of the violence and nudity. When he was given the task of editing Scarface’s 160 ‘F’ words along with its other blue content few thought it could be done. But in the end it may be the most creative censorship ever to hit the TV airwaves.
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Posted on February 8, 2012 in Editing | No Comments
Philip Bloom asked seven professional editors (Michael Friedman, Cameron King, Adam Barton, Eli Ungar-Sargon, Alan Seawright, Chip Dizárd) to share their experiences with working with the much maligned Final Cut Pro X. Perhaps the lover’s scorn for the Apple editing system was more emotional than rational?
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Posted on February 1, 2012 in Editing | 4 Comments
Apple just released Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 – and with the addition of a small numeral change comes a handful of important updates, key among them multi-cam support, advanced chromakey tools, support for output cards for preview monitors, and (about time) an upgrade path to import old FCP 7 projects into X (although you have to pay for that feature)
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Posted on January 27, 2012 in Editing | 2 Comments
The filmmakers at our favorite underwater film production, The Underwater Realm, talk about what it takes to put together a 16 terabyte media server running on Infiniband to safely store and stream Red Epic Raw files for a fraction of the cost of an enterprise grade server.
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Posted on January 24, 2012 in Editing, Off Topic | No Comments
In the 90s, colorizing old cartoons seemed like a no-brainer, what could distract little tykes better than a swatchful of color? In 1992, Ted Turner, on his colorization bender took a batch of old black and whites, shipped them to South Korea where they were hand traced, colored in and reshot.
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Posted on January 13, 2012 in Editing | 3 Comments
Steve Martin shows Mark Spencer the fundamentals of 3-point editing and how to execute a back-timed edit in FCP X.
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Posted on January 9, 2012 in Editing | 1 Comment
This two minute tutorial by montagical gives you 10 tips for speeding up Sony Vegas.
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Posted on January 3, 2012 in Editing | 1 Comment
It has been said that the road to Total Robot Domination and the Enslavement of all Mankind is pathed with Free Apps.
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Posted on December 23, 2011 in Digital Effects, Editing | No Comments
Add a little extra pizzaz with this basic tutorial demonstrating how to create intricate and mesmerizing wipes in Adobe After Effects and applying them to footage in Adobe Premiere. CS5.5 used for both programs but this technique can be used on older versions of the software.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 in Editing | 1 Comment
In this panel sponsored by EditFest NY, editors Thelma Schoonmaker, Mark Livolsi, Sabrina Plisco, David Salter, and Allan Title discuss their many problem solving experiences.
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