The iPhone 4 has finally hit shelves and along with it comes a new app that filmmakers might find interesting: iMovie.
Everyone wants to use cool effects in their film and even utilize the free reign that a green screen can give...
For a final project, one student decided to take a new spin on the hit film Avatar.
Match cuts are one of the most important cuts in film editing. No matter what your style or preference is, mastering this technique is crucial to effective Post Production.
Nonlinear editing has had a tremendous impact on the film industry. It has smoothed out the editing process, making things quicker, and saving the editor (well the editor’s assistant anyway) hours of time spent pouring through spools of the wrong footage before getting to the clips he actually wanted.
So you finally have all of your captured footage logged and organized in a way you can get to them easily…What’s next?
So your director has dumped hours of footage on your desk with a smile and a wave saying he’ll see you in a couple weeks. Where do you get started? Regardless of the project (be it feature, short, doc, even student film) or the system you are using your very first step is to get your footage organized. I use Final Cut Pro so just about all of my tips will be coming from that perspective but most editing software can do similar things (might be labeled differently).
