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How POV affects your Filmmaking

ah-blogEditor-SC 1053 Views Film, Filmmaking, Perspective, Point of View, POV, Video Production

Different POVs (points-of-view) can invoke vastly different emotions, so it’s important to be able to distinguish between them for maximum effect on your viewers.

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Logging Interviews in FCPX

ah-blogEditor-SC 1475 Views Editing, FCP X, Filmmaking, Final Cut Pro X, Interviews, Keywords, Logging, metadata, Video Production

A list of 7 tips that make FCP X an exceptional tool for logging interviews, so you can save time in your edit and tell the most compelling story possible.

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Flow State in Film Making

Alex 1304 Views Effects, FCPX, Filmmaking, FX, Transitions, VFX

Arthur Moore speaks about his ‘Flow State’ when making his top notch videos. “The Zone” he talks about when creating his films is a place of “Limitless Creative Flow”. This guy is very likeable and does amazing things with FCPX.

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4K to 720 Multicam

Alex 1333 Views 4K, 4Kto720, BlackMagicDesign, Editing, FCPX, Multicam, ProRes

Single 4K clip combined 5 different ways in a 5 angle 720 multicam timeline. Added movement across key shots adds the illusion of up to 8 unique edit perspectives derived from a single 4K BMD ProRes file.

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Storyboards 101

ah-blogEditor-SC 1377 Views Concept, Creativity, Film, Planning, Storyboard

Storyboards are the most effective way to explore your visual strategy and communicate that vision to your creative team. Even if you can’t draw.

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7 Amazing Books You’ll Never Read in Film School

ah-blogEditor-SC 959 Views Books, Comedy, Film, Film School, Inspiration, Reading

The amazingly resourceful people at frame.io compiled this list in one of their always interesting blog posts. Reach outside the film school canon to find new ideas, creative influences, and perspectives. These books can kickstart your creative mind.

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Keyword Ranges in FCPX

ah-blogEditor-SC 1311 Views Editing, FCPX, Film, Filmmaking, Final Cut Pro X, Interviews

FCPX is one of those tools that doesn’t do everything. What it does do, is really easy to use and often super powerful. Range Selections can apply multiple keywords to multiple I/O range selections across a single clip in the

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Log for More Image Control

ah-blogEditor-SC 1213 Views Colour Correction, Editing, File Format, Format, Log, LUTs

There’s more than one log used in the editing bay and that doesn’t include the fireplace logs of a high-end Swedish post-production boutique. No Hygge here, instead it’s a rich texture of color brought about by mathematical gymnastics, the log

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Mac DaVinci Resolve Contrast Issues

ah-blogEditor-SC 1283 Views Colour Management, Contrast, DaVinci Resolve, Displays, Gamma, Macs

There seems to be an issue in DaVinci Resolve with the contrast displayed on Macs compared to the exported data and played back using some other tool. Source: Contrast issues in DaVinci Resolve on Macs – Time in Pixels