There’s no shortage of movies that use visual effects, but only a few have been totally cutting-edge and crazy when it comes to green screen. The art of an innovative chroma key is truly underrated. It can turn a good movie into a great movie. It can take a bad movie and make it tolera

There are four really easy ways to add text to your video clips in Final Cut Pro X. Whether you’re a veteran editor or just opening up Final Cut Pro X for the first time, there’s always a benefit to going over the basics. Adding text or titles to your clip and project sounds like

Get more from FCPX! We’ve scoured the web and rounded up some excellent Final Cut Pro X plugins! What a history Final Cut Pro has had. What once was the industry-leading non-linear editing software (only to fall behind Adobe’s Premiere Pro) has come full circle as Final Cut Pro X

Streamline your workflows and collaborate with teammates across the globe with Adobe’s new Productions feature inside Premiere Pro. Back in 2017 Adobe gave Premiere Pro users two exciting new workflow tools. The first was the ability to open multiple projects at the same time. This gav

Let’s take a quick look at the Vimeo mobile app and some of the updated technologies for smartphone shooting and editing. The age of smartphone filmmaking is looking more and more like it’s very much in the immediate future — if not already here. While there are plenty of smartphone apps ava

Cameras that shoot RAW are more forgiving for new shooters. This new audio format — a 32-bit floating point — promises to do the same for sound capture. The leap to RAW video, like the transition in still photography from JPEG to DNG before it, was both a leap in quality and an evolution in

We’re going to learn about the differences between utilizing a blue screen and a green screen for chroma key compositing. Just as filmmaking and cameras have advanced over the years, so has the use of blue screens and green screens. But is there any real difference between using a blue

In this article, we’ll take a detailed, step by step look at the various methods to keying green screen footage in Adobe After Effects. Of all the editing software, you’ll probably get the best key results in After Effects. There are several methods for working with After Effects

With the possibility of an increase in price in SSDs due to the incident at the NAND manufacturing plant, the time to buy an SSD is now. According to a report by Digitimes — who spoke to several sources about the matter — the price of NAND flash chips could increase by as much as forty perce

Don’t get bogged down in a client feedback review loop. Here’s your guide on how to properly solicit client feedback and review film and video drafts. In the entirety of the professional film and video production workflow — from the earliest stages of pre-production to the delive

In this writeup, we’ll take a look at the slow motion dexterity of DaVinci Resolve 16 — as well as its proficiency and economic potential. It seems like every time a new camera comes out, there are a litany of complaints — from amateur cinematographers — concerning the new product̵

We’re going to use DaVinci Resolve to get balanced, glowing skin tones in just a few easy steps — without affecting your other edits. First, you need to isolate the skin with a selection so you can work with it without affecting the rest of the image. Then, you can even out the skin, u

Final Cut and Premiere Pro have been battling for the top spot in editors’ hearts for the past decade. Which one best suits your needs? It’s been the subject of heated bar debates and post-production meetups since the advent of the two programs — Final Cut or Premiere? Both Mac-h

Today, we’ll discuss how to create a more cohesive action sequence when dealing with hand-to-hand combat, as well as long-range action scenes. Imagine a movie where in every important dialogue scene, the actors just yell at each other. They blow out the audio levels, their words slur t

Missing some After Effects skills? Here are some tutorials that teach all the basic knowledge you’ll need for working with the program. When first getting started in the world of video editing, NLE editors like Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro can seem like the be-all-end-all of vi

Take a look at what NVIDIA is offering in the new update, including how it will improve your life as a creator — and some performance improvements. For most of PC history, video card drivers were optimized around the gaming experience in all but the highest-end enterprise cards. Recently, Nv

Does the new Object Removal Tool in DaVinci Resolve 16 stand up to Adobe’s Content Aware Fill? Here’s what you need to know. At NAB 2019, we saw several new features added to Resolve. And while we weren’t overloaded with new features for the color page, we did get Resolve’s count

You need a rotating shot, but you don’t have a multi-axis rig or a spinning set. No problem. Here’s how you can pull off the look on your own. If you love to follow behind-the-scenes social media pages, then you’ve more than likely come across a video like this clip posted

Every director has a go-to shot that makes a scene unmistakably their own. Let’s take a look at 7 iconic cinematography techniques. Great directors make an impact on the history of filmmaking, introducing a style and a technical approach that becomes trademark. Akira Kurosawa’s a

Find out everything you need to get started in DaVinci Resolve with this complete, six-part video guide to the best free video editor on the market. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t had a chance to master DaVinci Resolve yet. There are a lot of small details and techniques a