Free masterclass: Shooting day for night
Day for night is an essential technique in modern production and one of those B-movie giveaways when it’s done...
Grade it yourself: color correction fundamentals
Editors often shy away from final color correction. However, the budget on many projects doesn’t include room for a...
Color Management for Dummies
Color management is a chaotic web of confusion for many artists. Most of this is a result of industry...
Previs: the antidote to a locked down camera
COVID-19 may have cancelled your shoot, but rather than resigning yourself to binge watching, why not learn how to...
Tracking in Mocha: The must-have 2020 skill upgrade
Editors, mograph artists, and VFX artists all need to track objects. What if in 20 minutes you could learn...
How to fix bad dialogue using EQ
Equalization is one of the most crucial steps in taming a soundtrack. It’s also the step at which most...
Get up and running with Adobe Animate—Flash reborn
Back in the 90’s, Macromedia Flash was the king of web-based animation and it was everywhere. Then in 2010...
Up and running with Apple Motion…in 20 minutes
For a lot of editors, After Effects is overkill but the rudimentary motion graphics tools in their NLE of...
Gripology 101: The beautiful ugly of grip production work
Ever been confused by the mysterious names and ways of grip hardware (like turning a “pancake” into a “pigeon...
Editing Dialogue
Good editors tend to work viscerally; shot choice and cut points for dialogue scenes are chosen as often by...
