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Some Tips for a Slow ComputerI had a guy reach out to me this week about including something from his site as part of the weekly roundup.In fact I get this all the time and generally tend to not do anything about it because usually it is something from a bot or is totally irrelevant to the site.However in this case I am making an exception because it is quite a good … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Slow Computers, Black and White Conversions and Framing

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