Video editing, compositing and color grading...

Recent Totorials...

13 Tutorial Using Fusion 9 to Transcode Media for Resolve 15

This tutorial illustrates the use of Fusion 9 to transcode stock footage that is otherwise incompatible with Resolve 15 (specifically footage stored in a QuickTime animation codec).

09 Tutorial Media Composer Making a Simple Credit Roll in Titler Pro 6

This tutorial illustrates the use of Titler Pro 6 to create a simple credit roll. While this tutorial uses Titler Pro 6 as a plugin to Media Composer, the techniques illustrated here apply to Titler Pro across its supported hosts.

See here for a similar workflow using Resolve 14

08 Tutorial Resolve 14 Multicam Color Correction using Groups

This tutorial is a continuation of tutorial 07 in this series where we flatten a multi-cam time line and then use Resolve's 'groups' feature to sync the primary grading of each camera angle.

07 Resolve 14 Multicam Proxy Workflow

Resolve 14 can be a bit slow on the edit page - particularly with multicam or 4K media, depending on the codec and the hardware. In this tutorial we demonstrate a technique where the original camera source media for a multicam shoot is transcoded to proxy media using Resolve's Media Management capabilities. The proxy media is used to create a multicam clip and the multicam clip is inserted into the timeline and edited. When the final cut is locked-down, the multicam clips are flattened and then re-conformed to the source media for final grading.

06 Fusion Connect Workflow in DaVinci Resolve

Fusion Connect is the technology that allows you to easily move between DaVinci Resolve and Fusion. Fusion is a wonderfully rich node-based compositing package. In this tutorial we look at a couple of workflow approaches that help you manage color grading of a clip sent to Fusion from Resolve.

05 DaVinci Resolve Offline/Proxy Workflow

Resolve can be a bit slow on the edit page - particularly with multicam or 4K media, depending on the codec. In this tutorial we demonstrate a technique where the original camera source media for a multicam shoot is transcoded to proxy media using Resolve's Media Management capabilities. The multicam timeline is then reconformed to these low bandwidth proxies. This improves the responsiveness for cutting between camera angles. Once the cutting is 'complete', the timeline is reconformed to the original source media in preparation for final grading.

04 Night Sky Replacement in Media Composer - Part 2

In this tutorial we look at a variation to the night sky replacement technique (see https://youtu.be/tpHBUUx3cMo) using BCC 10's Make Alpha to create the mask and its built-in Mocha tracker to isolate the sky and to generate the motion tracking data used to synchronize the star field to the camera motion.The matte and star field are then fed into Sapphire Builder to produce the final composition.

03 Night Sky Replacement in Media Composer

In this tutorial we look at night sky replacement using Sapphire 10's NightSky and Luna effects to create the sky and Mocha 5 AVX and BCC 10 Match Move to synchronize the movement of the night sky with camera motion. We then use Avid's Paint Effect in conjunction with BCC's ChromaKey Study to create a matte which is then fed into a Sapphire Builder effect in conjunction with the NightSky layer to produce the final composition.

02 Media Composer Multicam Offline Workflow

In this tutorial we learn how to transcode a multicam shoot into a proxy media format suitable for real-time camera angle switching. We then see how to link back to the original source media for finishing. Next, we flattened the multicam edit, mix it down to a high-quality DNxHD codec and output it as a QuickTime Reference. Finally we transcode the QuickTime Reference file to a YouTube-friendly format using Video Mastering Works.

01 Mocha 5 plugin as a matte source for Sapphire in Media Composer

This tutorial demonstrates how the mocha 5 plugin for media composer can be used to roto-scope and track an object and the output used to drive Sapphire's Effect Builder mask channel, all from the Media Composer timeline!

Interesting third-party links...

Lighting for Video that Doesn't Suck!

Here's part 1 of a great tutorial from 'The Video Whisperer' that really helps explain why lighting is so important to video production and the elusive 'film look'. You can navigate to other parts of the lighting tutorial from the linked page.

Media Composer Color Correction Tutorials

From our friends over at Avid Screencast - some of the basics of color correction and color grading with Avid Media Composer.

Color Correction Tips with Steve HullFish

Join Steve HullFish at the Editor's Lounge for some fantastic tips on understanding color and color correction.

AMA Workflow 4 - Looking at transcoding to off-line media

Our good friend mjolnarn over at the Avid forms has come up with this wonderful tutorial that shows an AMA workflow in Media Composer 7 for AMA > Offline Edit > Online and final conform to the target resolution to support a QT Ref export.