We’ve all been there. You’re in the middle of an edit, and all of a sudden you pull in a clip that has some godawful hum in the background. Even worse, you go back and realize that every single clip from that scene has terrible audio. Or maybe a dog starts barking in the middle

In the world of color correction, the vectorscope is most commonly used as a helpful guide for where skin tones should fall. However, it’s a far more versatile tool than meets the eye. I’ve seen no better example of color correcting than a recent tutorial from David Torcivia, a

When it comes to the many repetitive tasks in editing, graphics, and VFX, efficiency is the name of the game. If you can shave mere seconds off something that you do every single day, the time savings (and mental energy savings) can add up over weeks and months and years. All of this is to

Blackmagic’s powerful grading and editing app came out of beta this week, and hundreds of new features and enhancements are now at your fingertips. At NAB 2016, Blackmagic Design took a more nuanced approach to its usually-massive product announcements. Like they did with their camer

High-Definition video was the bee’s knees in 2006, forcing broadcasters and freelancers to upgrade cameras and equipment so they can capture footage with a resolution of 1920×1080. 4K video is the successor to HD, and professionals and consumers alike are beginning to purchase n

Once you know how to take advantage of Resolve’s most basic video color correction abilities, the software offers a whole new world of insanely powerful tools that will let you take your color skills to the next level. Among those tools, the ones you will likely find yourself using m

All procrastination is bad procrastination, right? Not so much. While spending three hours scrolling through Facebook when you’ve got a major deadline coming up is just plain self-sabotage, the relationship between procrastination and creativity is a bit more complex. It turns out th

It’s not always appropriate to give your projects a vintage aesthetic in post, but when it is, the following tutorial (and some free downloadable assets) will help you do it right.

In the past two years, DaVinci Resolve has undergone a magical transformation. It’s gone from a world-class color correction tool to an all-in-one color correction and editing software that round-trips with Fusion, Blackmagic’s powerful node-based VFX platform. This all begs th

A nice animated logo can go a long way in terms of signaling the quality of your videos before viewers even get to the main content. And when you add 3D into that equation in a way that isn’t cheesy, it can take that perceived production value to another level entirely. For you Apple

Updated December 2021 Time is money for professional video editors, and performance issues like lagging video and dropped frames while editing video can absorb a lot of time and mess up your post-production workflow. DaVinci Resolve, like any other video editing software, is very resource-i

The dynamic linking feature between Premiere Pro and After Effects has been around for quite a while. But every now and again, it’s good to revisit even the most basic of features to revel in just how cool and useful they really are.

On any given image, you could spend five minutes grading or five days. So how do you know when it’s time to move on? The issue of color grading video is one of those questions that are quite a bit more complex than it seems, and I’ll dive into some of the specifics later in the

Like most modern NLEs, FCPX comes with the ability to slow down and speed up your footage. Unlike the others, however, FCPX also has a nifty built-in feature that allows for incredibly smooth motion, even when you drop the speed by 90% or more.

Perhaps no one, not even the actor, is more responsible for how a performance takes shape than the editor. Sure, the actor has to deliver the goods during production, and it’s part of the director’s job to shape that performance in rehearsals and onset. But ultimately, all of th

On Thursday, Blackmagic Design dropped a whopper of a mid-year DaVinci Resolve update, one that should make Window’s users in particular quite happy. Though this update is pretty wide-ranging and includes significant updates for every part of the software, the feature that stands out

In a world that’s becoming ever more connected, having captions for your videos helps you make them accessible to as wide an audience as possible. With that said, for many of us, the process of creating captions for videos can seem difficult, convoluted, or just plain tedious. However

This week Adobe lifted the veil on their latest round of Creative Cloud updates, and far and away the coolest new feature is Team Projects. What are Team Projects, you’re probably asking? Apart from the fact that it allows you to create an Adobe Premiere team project, it might be bes

The fact that Burger King recently released a Stranger Things-themed burger for the show’s third season is enough to demonstrate how big the Netflix show has become. But why did a teen horror-fantasy show set in the 80’s get to be the most talked-about phenomenon not called Game

The Adobe Media Encoder can be a bit intimidating at first glance, but after watching this tutorial, you’ll be transcoding like a pro in no time. The tutorial comes from Tobias Gleissenberger of Surfaced Studio (one of the better YouTube channels around for Premiere and After Effects