Sometimes you’re pressed for time and just can’t spend hours tweaking the color your images to your heart’s content. In those instances, the following grading technique on DaVinci Resolve will give you the most bang for your buck in a short amount of time. This tutorial f

If you still haven’t seen our ‘Artlist is Fast’ commercial, check it out here and then check out our take on the familiar time freeze effect. In this post, you’ll learn the insides and outs of how we created this moment frozen in time. Let’s jump in. Lighting and Set For

Making the Made for Creators commercial was so much fun, so we wanted to share with you some tips on how to combine CGI and practical effects to create great VFX. Let’s jump in. The Camera Movement For the dolly movements, we used a doorway dolly with rails. We opted for a dolly-in moveme

Music and video go hand in hand, elements that complete one another. When matched perfectly, they come together to make a scene a lot more memorable. Just ask Quentin Tarantino. If you take music out of a scene, the whole effect vanishes immediately. Try watching the choppers scene from Apo

Back in December of last year, we shot a commercial for our Christmas music collection. Since the making of this video involved some cool color grading techniques, mainly for creating contrast, I’d love to share the process with you. A short description for those of you who don’t want or c

A few months ago we launched a campaign to promote our Friend-to-Friend referral program, which can earn you between 2 extra months up to a free lifetime subscription to Artlist.   Not bad, right? When making the campaign’s commercial, we used a green screen, which is a technique that

At some point, creatives will dip their feet into the well of stock video footage. Maybe it’s a vlogger looking for just the right stock clip; it could be a filmmaker looking for useful b-rolls they couldn’t shoot themselves; it might be a musician with no camera chops or budget looki

One of the obvious strengths of video technology – or any digital media, for that matter – is its ability to capture a vast amount of moving picture information. One of video’s other great strengths is its potential for manipulation. While it’s almost certain no filmmaker can gi

Intro High-end technologies are already used to make old actors look young and create more movies with our favorite characters. We are getting used to our favorite actors being young forever, thanks to modern technologies. The future even holds immortal digital actors for us, sounds like ma

It may have been launched as an image-first platform, but Instagram has morphed into a premier, go-to video destination. From Insta-stories to IGTV, video has become the most popular form of content on the ‘gram, with video posts getting more than twice the amount of comments than any other

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought sweeping changes to the way people all over the world are able to live their lives right now. For many of us who are self-employed or work in the creative industry, there are many uncertainties with plenty of filmmakers and photographers struggling to find

You may have noticed that we just launched a new SFX feature on Artlist. That means that from now on, you can get unlimited downloads of sound effects with the same universal license that covers any video project, even commercial. For this special occasion, we thought it would be cool to s

We know that keeping busy and creative is crucial for creators during these days of quarantine. Not only is it good for the soul, but it’s also useful for practical reasons, so when all this mayhem is over, you could more easily pick up where you left off. If you make good use of this downt

As the world continues to experience dramatic changes, creators have been letting these uncertain times inspire them to continue working from home and create inspiring content. After all, everyone knows that limitation is creativity’s best friend. When you know the rules and boundaries, you

Working from home can be a liberating experience but it does require a bit of discipline, too. Having worked from home for over 12 years, this is what I’ve learned from my own experiences and those of other colleagues, to help you maintain your productivity (and possibly your sanity, too) i

We all know that the music used in a video or film plays a significant role in determining the feel. Different songs can turn the same video from a horror scene into a comedy. If you know your audience and have found just the right song, it can elevate your video to new heights. You need to

The COVID-19 pandemic has put a damper (or pandem?) on the whole idea of traveling, for now, at least. It’s especially hard for travel vloggers, whose entire online presence is built around going to new places and filming their experiences. Travel YouTubers Daniel Inskeep and Rachel

A busy city street, distant footsteps, a speeding car — add royalty-free sounds to your film projects to give them real-world texture, to add suspense, or to emphasize comedy or drama. Well-placed sound engages audiences, increases production value and delivers important plot, story,

Following the recent post about choosing the right song for your commercial and the more technical one about making a song fit your video perfectly, I want to address the song selection topic from a different angle – subverting Expectations. Subverting expectations when producing a vi

With an incredible career spanning 34 years, Craig Carter was one of Australia’s most distinguished and celebrated sound designers. Before his early passing in 2017 at the age of 60, Carter worked on over a hundred productions as a sound designer, editor, and recordist. One of AustraliaR