Forums, Tutorials & Resources on Editing and Indie Filmmaking
- youtube.com (many tutorials, just ask anything and add keyword FCP, FCPX, Avid…)
- nofimschool.com (A great resources on indie filmmaking)
- filmmakeriq.com (stuff is a bit buried there since they changed the interface, but there’s tremendous amount of resources there)
- lynda.com (not free, but they have great courses on anything)
- wolfcrow.com
- videomaker.com
- mentorless.com
- creativecow.com (online forum, great to ask for a specific tip)
- Filmmaker magazine by Ken Roy, on Flipboard (he posts daily about all sorts of things for indie filmmakers, great stuff from all over the web.)
- Sundance Institue Directors Lab: The Editing Room
- Breathless: An Analysis of Discontinuity Editing
- 180 Degree Rule and Other Shot Sequence Tips (some notes on lighting too)
- Breaking Down 180 Degree Rule
- Continuity Editing (examples from “V for Vendetta”)
- Parallel Editing & Cross Cutting
- EditStock (edit stock footage, for a fee)
For FCPX tutorials, sign up for lynda.com
Courses are thorough and clear, definitely worth checking out. One of the most comprehensive ways of figuring out the new software.
For a few dollars more than a basic subscription, you get project files used in their courses, so you can follow along with the videos and do exercises they suggest.
Film/ Editing Terms
Editors & Directors talk about Editing
- Hitchcock explains editing
- EDITOR Thelma Schoonmaker
- Martin Scorsese & Thelma Schoonmaker in the Editing Room (with Michael Powell)
- “Cutting Yourself Out of a Corner” Part I – Thelma Shoonmaker
- EDITOR Michael Kahn
- Alfred Hitchcock – Masters of Cinema (Complete Interview in 1972)
- Quentin Tarantino On Making Movies (14 min)
Scripts and short dialogues
The Art of Editing SM2002 