Make your video look like film with these awesome grain packs online. Getting an “authentic” film look is the goal of most filmmakers. However, one of the biggest challenges to making your digital footage look like film is finding the right film grain. Fortunately, there are a fe

Follow along as pro colorist Rob Bessette guides a tour of his color suite at Boston’s Finish Post. Discover workflow secrets and explore a real-deal professional environment. If you’ve ever wanted to see how the pros work, now’s your chance. In the video below, profession

We’ve previously covered offline editing and proxy workflows, but in this article, we’ll cover methods to make your 6K RAW editing more amicable. Although the Pocket 6K is budget and new user-friendly, the files the camera produces can be anything but. 6K BRAW media is a resource

Let’s discuss the usefulness of the Boring Detector for the up-and-coming editor — as well as how and why it is sometimes ineffective. Earlier this year, during one of Blackmagic’s many exciting announcements (there have been a few), we learned about a new DaVinci Resolve feature calle

In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll cover the best practices for using DaVinci Resolve to sync, color grade, and transcode proxies for ingest into AVID. Note: we recorded this tutorial using DaVinci Resolve 16.1 and AVID Media Composer 2018.12.3. The DaVinci Resolve to AVID round trip

These techniques explore the workflow benefits of working with a LUT at the beginning of your node graph rather than at the end. Long gone are the days when you needed a third-party plugin to import and apply a LUT. LUTs are now so commonplace that an NLE, or compositor, would feel dated if

Blackmagic Design has announced DaVinci Resolve 16 at NAB 2019. And once again, this update is full of useful features you need to unpack. The internet has been ablaze this week with the news of Adobe’s content-aware fill tool in the spring After Effects update. It seems like forever a

In this roundup, we go over all of the updates to the Edit Page in DaVinci Resolve 16 — and what they mean for your projects. In the NAB 2019 live panel, Blackmagic Founder Grant Petty touched upon the fact that, in 2019, Resolve in now in use among a variety of different cultures. Some eage

If you’re an editor on the move, DaVinci Resolve 16’s new Cut Page can really improve your workflow. But if you’re not, then maybe not. The biggest surprise from Blackmagic’s NAB Resolve demo was the addition of a brand-new page called the Cut Page. The new page is intended

In part three of our six-part video series The DaVinci Resolve 15 Crash Course, we cover the edit tools you need for adjusting your clip placements. Welcome to part three of the PremiumBeat Resolve Editing crash course. If you’ve been following along since episode one, we won’t k

Learning a new application can mean spending hours stumped by usability issues. Here’s one we found in Resolve — and how to fix it. Every so often, we run across an issue that doesn’t have an apparent answer, partly because we’re not too sure what’s causing the proble

Even the most organized lighting setups can need tweaking in post. Find out how you can add (realistic) shadows to a composition using DaVinci Resolve. I know. We’re about to discuss creating something digitally that we should have just captured with the camera. But, we don’t live in a perfe

Learn how you can master post-production techniques by reworking older movies in this detailed, shot-by-shot video tutorial. If you’re a fan of the original Star Wars films, you probably aren’t a fan of the later releases of episodes 4, 5 and 6 — the ones that included additional

The DaVinci Resolve motion tracker is fast and simple to use. Let’s explore how to get the most out of this already amazing tool. The DaVinci Resolve motion tracker’s efficiency always seems to impress clients, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Let’s take a look

Creating a freeze frame or a gap in your timeline in Final Cut Pro X is as easy as one simple keyboard shortcut. Ready for the fastest shortcut quick tip ever? These shortcuts will break the video up in your timeline either by inserting a freeze frame, gap, or default generator. These short

Learn the trick to creating monumental 3D titles in Final Cut Pro X. Master the technique with FREE stock footage and music from Shutterstock and PremiumBeat. Thanks to an amazing set of textures and presets, it’s a breeze to create 3D titles in Final Cut Pro X. Using various video too

Final Cut Pro X gets a significant update with the release of version 10.0.6.  In this post, we share what improvements were made and why Apple might be once again focused on the professional market. When Apple released Final Cut Pro X in April of 2011, it caught a lot of flack…and tha

Photo stitching to create panoramas is a great way to take a set of images, sometimes thousands, and create a new and exciting picture out of them. For instance, according to Business Insider, one of the world’s most large scale photos was created using panoramic photography, st

Afterlight 2 is a popular photo or image editor app available for iPhone users. Coming from Afterlight Collective, Inc, this version is a complete overhaul of the Afterlight app. Powerful and inexpensive, this Afterlight app makes the process of enhancing photos easy for everyone with

Have you ever tried following a Photoshop tutorial to edit your photo, only to be stymied by something basic in the program?  While you struggle to figure out something like how to unlock layers in Photoshop, the video instructor continues and is soon ten steps ahead of you. S