A Rough Process When you edit video, you can easily make technical editing mistakes. Editors have a rough job: watching through hours of footage, cutting down the footage into useable chunks, working and re-working material, cutting the fat, adding more drama. It's a constant process that
How to Choose Your Video Editing Software
The Big Two (Plus Two More) Deciding on which professional video editing NLE to use in today's market can be a challenge. This article will walk you through each piece of professional editing software. In this article, we'll take a brief look at the four professional options: AVIDPremiere
5 Tips for Next Level Editing
An AV Symphony with Video Editing Let's say we're editing a video of a commercial car driving scene. We've got music, we've got sound effects, we've got cars, we've got a VO and a script. How do we make something special out of all these pieces during editing? Every project is different.
How Making Proxies Can Turbo Charge Your Editing
It can seem like creating proxies for video editing is no longer necessary. With all of the marketing hype and new formats, it can be really confusing which route to go with media management. Digital cameras today are incredible. Each one is unique. One can shoot 8k resolution, another can
LUTs: How to Use Them Effectively for Color Grading
What is a LUT A LUT is a Look Up Table. LUTs are used extensively in color grading. A LUT is a file that contains input numbers and output numbers that transform footage from one color space to another; from basic look to a color grade and many uses in between. It's basically a pre-set for your
How to Setup a Professional Home Edit Bay for Under $250
Focus on the Basics First What are the essentials for building an affordable and professional edit bay to use at home? In this post, I will walk you through the most basic way to get started building a professional edit bay for home use. When editing on our computers, usually we start with
Why Nailing the Shoot Makes the Grade
"Fix It in Post" If you've been around post production for any length of time, you've probably heard this old adage, "Fix it in Post." It's a common assumption that anything that doesn't look right in the raw footage can be brought up to speed with a little post magic. When I first started