by Charles Haine, nofilmschool.com Everything Red Giant makes is now free for students and educators! Red Giant has always been good about discounts. Not only does it have a yearly mega sale, but it also is one of the few companies that combines discounts. This means you can combine a student discount with the sale […]
Read more "Red Giant Complete Is Now Free for Students and Educators!"By Logan Baker, Shutterstock Are you getting started in film-making or video editing? Consider these free editing programs to round out your toolkit and improve your creative workflow. If you’re just starting out in your editing, videography, or directing career, you might feel overwhelmed by the seemingly endless programs, techniques, and types of videos out […]
Read more "The Best Free Video Editing Programs"by Mister Horse The magic wand for video editing is finally here. From the makers of Animation Composer for After Effects, comes a free plugin for Adobe Premiere. With the free software and sample kit, now you’re able to do all sorts of neat effects with Premiere including complex transitions, text presets, text boxes and […]
Read more "Premiere Composer: A FREE Plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro"by XEffects Reflecting Letterbox is a title effect for Final Cut Pro X that reflects the media inside a letterbox mask. It is perfect for anything that needs a bit of glamour or style, Hollywood to weddings, concerts to landscapes. Just add this title above media in an FCPX project and the plugin will do the rest. Watch […]
Read more "New Free Plugin for FCPX – XEffects Reflecting Letterbox"by Caleb Pike, PremiumBeat.com Having worked as a director, cinematographer and editor I learned very quickly how important it is to shoot your film not only for the narrative that you are building in the present, but for the narrative that you, or your editor will build in post. Lucky for us, our friend Caleb Pike with DSLR Video […]
Read more "7 Tips for Better Shooting"by Color Grading Central What would it be like if you didn’t know much about color correction but with one little chart you could get perfect looking colors? Do it the manual way as shown in the video or the auto way with https://cinemagrade.com Though this isn’t a sponsored Xrite video Xrite already had a […]
Read more "The Handy Chart That Gets Colors Right On The Money!"by Grant J. Guillot, Dronelife As quarantines, shutdowns, and social distancing regulations are implemented around the globe to deal with the current pandemic, drone companies are stepping up to do what they can. Drones are an ideal tool to keep business going despite social distancing measures – but service providers say that they could do […]
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