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Editing Workflow in a Full-Scale Film Production

Ready to elevate your video editing game? Dive in and discover the secrets behind a pro's editing process! From importing raw footage to exporting the polished masterpiece, we've got your comprehensive guide right here.

From filming to editing Aurora Borealis

Immerse yourself in the captivating world of editing the mesmerizing Aurora Borealis in this enlightening article. Uncover the secrets behind creating stunning visual masterpieces.

Drone tricks: sunrise above the clouds

Drones have changed filmmakers' perspectives and removed so many boundaries. Now you just need to find a way to use opportunities and reach your... and your little copter's true potential!

Interlaced video. Nuances of denoising

At times you may ask yourself and us 'What's going on?!' Why have your frames become squashed or doubled? Usually, those visual effects are just a sign that you are working with an interlaced video. Do you need to do anything special to denoise such clips?

How to remove dust and scratches but keep the grain?

Do you want to remove dust and scratches from an old video, but keep the grainy character of the clip? Neat Video is a very flexible filter that can allow you to achieve precisely that. Read this article to learn what settings are important for this task.

How to reduce only flicker

Neat Video can do more than denoising. It has deflicker, jitter reduction and other tools to improve the quality of your video. What do you do if you only want to remove flicker?

Learn how to handle banding

Banding in video is a problem that has been around for a long time and is difficult to deal with. However we've decided to challenge ourselves and do some tests to see what works and what doesn't. Each stage of the video editing process has its own ways of eliminating / preventing / masking the problem and many video editing apps can assist you with making it less noticeable as well.

Optimize Edit page performance in DaVinci Resolve

Choppy playback, errors, and even crashes can all be part of everyday life of any DaVinci Resolve user. Learn how to make Resolve more responsive and stable on the Edit page when working on big projects and using heavy effects.

Neat Video in Resolve: best practices for Rec709, Log and Color-Managed workflows

Both Neat Video and Resolve are amazing software. If you mix them well, your denoising and color grading is going to be even better. Learn how to get the best possible looks and avoid unnecessary lagging and delays when working with Neat Video in DaVinci Resolve.

Neat Video & Premiere Pro: order of effects matters

Lumetri Color and Warp Stabilizer can make the rentering time very long if applied to the wrong place. How do you know the order Premiere Pro applies the effects to a clip? Nested sequence, clip, adjustment layer, master clip… What goes first?

The way to smooth editing in Final Cut Pro

At times Final Cut can become sluggish and updating preview may become super-slow. Luckily there is more than one way you can make Final Cut more responsive. Some simple adjustments can change the way you edit and make the whole process more enjoyable.

Apply effects to multiple clips in After Effects fast

Adobe After Effects has a few different ways you can apply effects to a number of clips. Depending on your specific style of editing and clips you work on the techniques may differ, but you will definitely find a solution that works for you.

Make editing in Premiere Pro smoother

Editing video is a non-stop juggle. You constantly have to make decisions about what effects to add to clips, what frame size to choose. You also have to think about the time you might have to spend waiting for the preview to be updated before you can carry on with editing.

Applying effects to several clips in Final Cut

It's time to cover different ways of applying effects to multiple clips in Final Cut Pro. Knowing these tricks can potentially help you save lots of time in editing.

Attack noise with calibration target

When you are busy shooting it’s hard to keep everything in mind. When filming in low light conditions, the list of things to take care of goes even longer. You may simply forget to take a couple of seconds to record something featureless to help yourself build a noise profile and fix unwanted noise and gran in post. In the worst-case scenario, you can end up with a clip, that is so rich with details that it’s impossible to find a big flat area to build a quality noise profile.