Video Edit Suite Construction (Day 4)

This is my first blog post about the construction / refinishing of a video edit suite in my home. I’ve been a freelance video editor for a few years now, and my current edit space is, essentially, a corner of my basement and an attached voiceover booth. Not very conducive to having clientele in my [...]

Get Video Jobs Through Craigslist (with Minimal Effort)

I wanted to share a little tip I decided to try today, and I’m quite pleased with the outcome. Searching for work as a video editor can be tiresome. After updating websites, demo reels, Facebook pages, blogs, Twitter status, etc., then sometime you have to pound the payment and find video editing gigs in classified [...]

Conforming Changes in Soundtrack Pro Mixes

Another great tip from the Tips for Final Cut Pro Editors blog regarding the conform function in Soundtrack Pro: So I made the changes in FCP, exported the sequence to STP again, but this time with a different file name. Then, once in STP, I clicked the conform button, and in the dialog box that [...]

ProRes 422 Standard vs. ProRes 422 HQ

While reading a great article all about the ProRes 422 format, I found the following nugget of info: While comparing the software-converted files I noticed a couple of interesting issues. My testing found that when the camera native codecs DVCPROHD, HDV or SxS were converted to ProRes in software they universally ran better when using [...]