Film Editor | Pointers

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Links

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Video Editing Software & Users’ Fora

Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group

Software	Fora
Adobe Premiere Pro	Adobe Premier Pro Community Adobe Premier at Codeweavers Adobe Premier at Creative Cow Adobe Premier Pro at LACPUG Adobe Premier at Liftgammagain Adobe Premier at Reddit
Avid Media Composer	Avid Communities
Blender	Blender Artists Blender at CG Society Blender Community Blender at Daz3D Blender at FSDeveloper Blender at FXHome Blender at GameDev Blender at Make Human Community Blender at Reddit Blender Help at Reddit Blender at SCSSoft Blender at StackExchange
Final Cut Pro	Final Cut Pro at Creative Cow Final Cut Pro at DVInfo Final Cut Pro at iDustrial Revolution Final Cut Pro at LACPUG Final Cut Pro at MacProVideo Final Cut Pro at MacRumors Final Cut Pro at Reddit
DaVinci Resolve	DaVinci Resolve at Blackmagicdesign DaVinci Resolve Community Forum DaVinci Resolve at Creative Cow DaVince Resolve at The Modern Filmmakers DaVinci Resolve at Reddit

 

Video Editing Plugins

FCP Effects

Motion VFX

Pixel Film Studios

Red Giant

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Books

HIRSCH, Paul:
A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits – Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mission Impossible & More
(Chicago Review Press, 2021)

HULLFISH, Steve:
Art of the Cut: Conversations with Film & TV Editors
(Routledge, 2017)

KEAST, Gred:
The Art of the Cut
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015)

MURCH, Walter:
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
(Silman-James, 2001)

NYGARD, Roger:
Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor’s Behind-the-scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies
(Applause, 2021)

ONDAATJE, Michael:
The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art of Editing Film
(Bloomsbury, 2008)

PHILLIPS, Lance:
Video Editing Made Easy with DaVinci Resolve
(Pakt Publishing, 2023)