Find yourself gawking at some of the elements in the latest video game from CD Projekt RED? Replicate a similar effect in After Effects. Even if you’re not wired into the video game world, it’s more than likely that over the past month you’ve heard some grumblings about

In this final episode of the FCPX Essentials Series, we’re covering the steps to finalize your edit with color correction, music, and export. For our FCPX Essentials series, we’re going to take a look at some of the basic and most essential features of FCPX. Whether you’re a brand

From cutaways to framing, let’s examine five filmmaking methods that can enable you to shoot like an editor. Take a look at the tutorial below for tips on shooting a film like an editor. When you’re done, follow up with the step-by-step transcription of this tutorial below it

With a 12K camera entering the market, is there a reason for such high resolution beyond massive images? Let’s take a look. During a summer live-stream, Blackmagic announced the URSA Mini 12K, an unprecedented move that few were expecting—if at all. While the news of a 12K camera i

You should probably purchase a different microphone. However, these steps can help you fix your RØDE VideoMic Go audio. On a recent expedition to the outside world, I brought my camera with me and decided to shoot a video. Instead of bringing my trusty Zoom H1n recorder, which I typicall

The Pick Whip is a motion graphics game-changing tool in Adobe After Effects. Let’s explore what it does and how to use it. All too often, you create a nice animation on a text layer using keyframes, before realizing that you want a shape to move with the text so that the shape and text

Easily give your videos the cinematic cropping they deserve with these free high-res letterbox templates for video editing. Despite having the ability to export footage in virtually any resolution, filmmakers and video producers are still limited to showing their work on screen

Learn how to make a lower thirds template that you can easily customize and reuse with any project. Let’s get started. In this tutorial, we’re going to walk through how to create a reusable lower thirds template. To do this, we’ll build the lower thirds in After Effects

See where the Davinci Resolve Speed Editor fills in the gaps left by the DaVinci Resolve Keyboard and how it can speed up your workflow. In 2019, Blackmagic Design released the DaVinci Resolve Editing Keyboard, their first peripheral for Resolve’s edit and cut page. Priced at $995,

Learn how to create a line boil effect on text and animations in After Effects. Tutorial includes free preset! In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to create a line boil effect in After Effects. We’ll also explore some of the handy uses for this effect and how to create your o

Luminar AI is the photo editing software for all—accessible, affordable, and effective at making professionals out of amateurs. After months of teasing their newest AI-assisted software, Skylum has finally released Luminar AI, a feature-packed follow-up to Luminar 4 that’s availabl

Here’s how you can save time on revisions and improve the organization of your editing projects through nesting sequences with Adobe Premiere Pro. When we’re talking about nesting sequences, it’s more along the lines of Russian nesting dolls than a bird’s nest. The concept of nes

Ramp up your efficiency with our favorite tutorials on the fundamentals of recording, editing, and correcting audio files. All for video editors and filmmakers. Audio can make or break your project. When it’s good, your audience experiences complete immersion in your story. When itR

Don’t sleep on the auditory smash cut! Here’s how to create the effect and a few clever ways to include it in your next video production. Essentially, there are three different ways to achieve the smash cut audio effect. You can go from sound to silence, silence to sound, or soun

From vintage sound effects to custom animated transitions, here’s everything we released during this year’s Free Week. I think we can all agree that one of the most tedious (and annoying) things you can do as a video editor is take time (that you don’t have) to create asset

In this second installment of our FCPX Essentials series, learn how to edit footage inside of FCPX and add eye-catching effects and transitions. With this FCPX Essentials series, we’re looking at some of the basic, most essential features of FCPX. Whether you’re a brand new editor or a seaso

Check out all of the possibilities for creating text animations using mattes in After Effects. Tutorial includes free project file! In this tutorial, we explore several text animation possibilities using track mattes in After Effects. We’ll learn about what a track matte is and how

Editing with a popular track as your temporary music bed can create a lot of unnecessary heartache for you and your team. Here’s what you need to do. Video editors, we need to have a little talk. It’s about music. I know you’re busy, you have a tight deadline, and you need to present s

Creating continuity is a vital aspect of video production. Here are three ways to ensure continuity holds up when using stock. While editing a music video a few years ago, I was faced with a dilemma. I’d been given footage that was to be cut together and combined into one scene. But, b

Let’s explore the pros and cons of creating the split diopter look in post and how to add imperfections to our shot for a more authentic look. In this tutorial, we’re going to create the look of a split diopter entirely in post-production. This tutorial includes a free project fi