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Barbie - Oppenheimer Color Grades - Cinematic Color CorrectionOk so I guess I can't ignore the fact that Oppenheimer and Barbie are just about everywhere at the moment!Apart from both movies being very good and raking in gazillions of dollars at the box office the visual difference between the two probably couldn't get more extreme!Let's face it, Barbie is about as … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Barbenheimer Color & Adjustment Layers

DaVinci Resolve 18.5 - The Fusion Crash Course for BeginnersFor quite a while now whenever I mention doing any kind of work in DaVinci Resolve I have to single out the Fusion Page.Although Resolve is most certainly an all-in-one app for end-to-end video production the Fusion page is probably the most powerful along with the the Color Page.The reason for that goes … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Fusion for Beginners & YouTube Intros

The Ultimate Beginner's Trimming GuideProbably the most basic action you will need to get under control in any video editing software after adding footage to the timeline is cutting and trimming your clips.This can be a very time consuming action but the bottom line is that there is no way around it.The only relief you can get at this stage is by really getting to … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Trimming and FB Livestream Best Practices

Storytelling for Short Form Video: Create Attention-Grabbing ContentOne of the lessons that is always repeated when it comes to video is that humans will always respond to a story.No matter how many cool transitions or special effects you introduce it will all add up to nothing if there isn't really a story to that video.The question arises that if you are creating … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Audience Attention Grabbers and Glambots

Color Theory in Cinema - How Does Video Color Correction Affect the Viewer?Two terms that are often used interchangeably are color correction and color grading.Because the two are also often done consecutively they kind of merge into the one action but in reality they are not this way at all.Color correction is the act of getting the video into a state to be … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Color Theory and Split Screens