Help me figure out what my next move should be regarding a NLE. Is FCPX ready for prime-time?
How to Manage and Price Client Revisions
Four tips on how you can get paid for extra work clients require of you on a job you’ve completed…without pissing them off.
3 Common Writing Mistakes and How to Catch Them
Between emails, blogs, proposals, etc, you do a lot of writing. Don’t look like a dufus to your clients and colleagues. Three mistakes that are easy to avoid.
A Valuable Lesson About Excess from Amadeus
One of the hardest things for me to do as an artist is cut my art. To make my videos shorter. To reduce the number of clips in my portfolio. To keep these blog posts under 1,000 words. 🙂 Do you ever have that problem? Come on…be honest. When you’re sitting in front of your […]
The Importance of Making a Focused Video
One of the most challenging jobs of a film or video editor is to cut a project down to the meat of the message. In today’s post I share a video example of how I made such a decision on my recent personal project.
FCPX and the Death of Final Cut Pro 7 is All Vincent Laforet’s Fault (or Why I think FCPX is Aimed Squarely at Photographers)
First, let me start by saying that my blog post title today is totally tongue-in-cheek. Just a provocative title to make a subtle point and not in anyway meant as an indictment against Vincent. In fact, it’s a testament to his groundbreaking work in DSLR filmmaking and the impact his little film “Reverie” has had. […]
FCPX and the Problem with Creatives
I questioned whether it would make sense for me to blog about the release of Final Cut Pro X (aka FCPX). Seems like every major filmmaker/blogger is already doing it. But, I’d like to tackle the situation from a viewpoint that I don’t see anyone else doing. The fundamental problem with creatives in general….
Four Tips for Better B-roll
If you do any sort of documentary, educational or promotional video work, chances are you will need to use b-roll: video footage that plays usually during an audio voice over, e.g. an employee being interviewed for a corporate promotional film is talking about how fun it is to work there, then the video cuts to […]
Film Editing Tips – There’s a Reason They Call it “Cutting”
Did you ever stop to think about all the filmmaking terms we use nowadays that harken back to the good ol’ days when “films” were actually shot on film? (Uh, wait. They’re still shot on film. Hmm?) Did you ever stop to think about all the filmmaking terms we use nowadays that harken back to […]