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Avid Studio v iMovie on the iPad… And the winner is?

Last week, film editing heavyweight Avid released their iPad app, Avid Studio, taking on Apple’s own iMovie app head on. I used iMovie last year for a family wedding video where I shot on my iPhone, edited on iPad and premiered for the family during the wedding dinner, blog post here. It was a real [...]

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Avid or Final Cut Pro X? Tips for setting up your first feature film cutting room.

One question that always comes up at the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass is which editing tool should I use? There is no straight answer to this, and we get into the detail in the masterclass, but this video above gives a great and indepth view into both Avid and FCPX systems. What should you consider [...]

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Which editing software should you use? Avid? Final Cut Pro? …Lightworks?

If I had a second career, I suspect I would have been an editor. I learned very early on that editing is perhaps the most powerful tool in the film making process – that is of course after the freedom of imagination in the script process, the tyranny of budget and fallibility of human beings [...]

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Tips For Shooting A Wedding Video On Your iPhone and Editing on iPad

Following yesterdays post on the wedding I shot on the spur of the moment using my iPhone, I got a lot of emails from people wanting to know more about shooting this way. The primary reason for shooting with a phone is that you don’t need to plan too much, you don’t need kit and [...]

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How to shoot a wedding video on your iPhone, transfer to iPad and edit it… all before dinner!

This weekend I went to an Italian wedding with my other half Lucia. Not understanding a single word of the ceremony or speeches, I thought I would shoot an impromptu wedding video for the happy couple, Oreste and Sandrine. Realising I also had my iPad with me, I wondered, could I shoot, edit and present [...]

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Download And Read A Complete Interview From The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook

Download And Read A Complete Interview From The Guerilla Film Makers Pocketbook

So we are getting closer to our glitzy London based ‘Guerilla Film Makers Pocket Book’ book launch, and I thought I should bring you up to speed on some things that are going on and appearing on the web. First of, at the bottom of the page are links to buy the books direct from [...]

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Editing ‘Kick-Ass’, interview with Editor Eddie Hamilton – includes full post production workflow chart

Editing ‘Kick-Ass’, interview with Editor Eddie Hamilton – includes full post production workflow chart

Yesterday I met with my old pal and editor, Eddie Hamilton. Eddie cut ‘Gone Fishing’ (trailer here) for us and most recently (you can buy it here), he has spent 18 months working on Kick-Ass as one of the editors, alongside Jon Harris and double Oscar winner Pietro Scalia, who Eddie speaks about in this [...]

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