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Free Video Footage Resources Found this interesting resource the other day and wanted to share it with you. It's a relatively new site called Finding Footage and appears to be a search engine that calls on some of the big stock footage sites for its results. Probably the business model is such that they are collecting commission on any referrals to those larger sites. Anyhoo, … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Free Video Resources, Green Screen Silhouettes and LUTs

Troubleshooting Your Editing Software It is pretty common these days for me to receive queries from users regarding problems they are having with their editing projects. In fact this is one of the most common types of question I get here on this site. Easily 90% of these questions start off by the user stating that they are having some kind of problem with the software they … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Troubleshooting Editing Problems, Color Grading and more

Magix Movie Edit Pro - 360° Close but No Cigar I received a couple of comments this week and last on a subject that I think bears a little bit of a blurb. The original comment(s) were pertaining to the the claim made by Magix for their release of Movie Edit Pro 2016. On their website they say:"NEW! 360° Editing Perfectly arranged from every angle: Movie Edit Pro 2016 Premium … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Magix Stumbles on 360° Video, an Audacity Tutorial and More

Everything Old is New Again... Again! When I first came across this article and then saw a repeat of the news in it across a few different website I thought it was some kind of joke. I quickly checked out a few site that were carrying it and came to realize that it is in fact true. Kodak are really planning, or should I say have already started executing the plan of issuing … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Kodak Super 8, Light Sabre Sound and Color Grading

Now that 2016 is upon us I guess it's time to do a roundup of where we stand in the world of video editing software choices for this year.By now most of the major software companies have released the versions they will be going with for the rest of the year and my choices below should hold true until around March in the case of Corel products and then August for the … [Read more...] about Video Editing Software Choices for 2016