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Sony Vegas Time Lapse Tutorial

Learn how to create a time lapse in Sony Vegas by compressing hours of footage into only seconds.
VIA: braproductions

The DSLR Filmmaker’s Workflow

By David Flores
DSLR video has changed the industry. Over the past year, our photographic sensibilities have propelled the moving image-opening the door to a new realm of storytelling possibilities. For photographers, the form factor is comfortable and familiar. The lens selection? A dream […]

Canon 7D - Final Cut Pro Workflow Introductory Tutorial

This is an introductory tutorial on conforming / transcoding H.264 files from your Canon 7D to work well in a Final Cut Pro timeline. It also helps to get rid of some of the crushed blacks and flatten out your image for color correction quite a bit.
VIA: DecembersEdge

Sony Vegas: Rendering in 1080p for YouTube HD

In this tutorial goes over how to render your videos in 1080p for YouTube HD all in Sony Vegas.
VIA: braproductions

11 Final Cut Tips and Tricks

Oliver Peters offers some handy work flow tips when working with Final Cut Pro:

…1. Gamma setting

A couple of versions ago, FCP added a gamma settings preference (User Preferences / Editing). This lets you compensate for gamma differences in graphics created on other platforms. Ever since FCP7, I have found that […]

Sony Vegas Tutorial - Stop Motion Video

This video tutorial shows you how to use Sony Vegas to create stop motion videos.
VIA: montagical

Increasing Render Speed in Final Cut Pro

A quick Final Cut Pro tip on how to spend less time rendering and more time editing.
VIA: AlanTheEditor

How they edit “Where the Wild Things Are”

J. Ott recounts a presentation by “Where the Wild Things Are” Editor Erik Jessen on the editing of Spike Jonze’s film of the classic childrens book.
…Last night I went to the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group (LAFCPUG) meeting to hear editor Eric Zumbrunnen and assistant editor Erik Jessen […]

How much should I charge to edit this project?

It’s always tough when it comes to money - Paul Zadie breaks down how to answer that age old question - “What should I charge?”
…I get this question a lot from freelance editors that are just starting out. They always have a tough time figuring out how to price their […]

Writing for Editing

by Gael Chandler
“The humbling truth is that the film is made in the editing room.”
-David Mamet introducing the nominations for editing during the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony
Editors are often called the last re-writers of the show. Another way to put this is that the editor is the architect of the […]