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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the workweek - here's everything we read and talked about this weekend. A guide to demystifying expressions selectors in Adobe After Effects - motion graphics artist and designer Joe Clay provides a simple walk-through of this complex tool [ Lester Banks ] Have you ever seen a lined script and gone "How the heck do I read this"? Welp, you're in luck: Editstock has a great, coherent guide to your script supervisor's hard handiwork [ Editstock ] Adobe Premiere Pro has just introduced a new Team Projects feature in its update - here are ten things that Creative Cloud users need to know [ Premiere Bro ] Da Vinci Resolve 12.5.2 is out, and Jonny Elwyn has a rundown of what's new in the update, as well as a few color grading tutorials for the interface [ Jonny Elwyn ] What's it like to work with Werner Herzog ? As you could probably guess, the answer seems to be "challenging" - his longtime editor of two decad...

Happy Monday! Here's a quick round-up of everything cool we saw in the post-production world this weekend. A look at how Kubo and the Two Strings ' first animated scene came together, via the people at LAIKA Animation Studio [ AOTG ] VFX Supervisor Peter Chiang discusses the classic eye-candy style of Star Trek: Beyond' s visual effects and building a new look for the franchise post-J.J. Abrams [ Studio Daily ] VFX breakdowns aren't just for splashy genre films: here's a look at the visual effects work that went into creating the look of Woody Allen's Cafe Society [ Vimeo ] We're obsessed with Stranger Things here at MEWShop, and the John Carpenter-influenced sound design is a huge factor. Here's an interview with the sound team who created it [ A Sound Effect ] Seriously, we're obsessed. Finally, it's not too late to register for the Evolution Film Festival's "See the Winners" event taking place 8/25 in Los Angeles!...

Happy Monday and happy August! Here's a taste of post-production news and current events for the last weekend of July '16. Video: Fabienne Bouville, ACE talks about taking edit notes for Masters of Sex at Sight, Sound & Story 2015 [ MEWTube ] Oliver Peters offers 12 tips for film editors - an interesting piece for discussion, agree or disagree on all of them [ DigiMedia Pros ] Speaking of useful tips, Screenlight has compiled a list of five major mistakes editors make while freelancing. [ Screenlight ] Supervising sound editor Benjamin Cook talks about creating the sound of sensory overload for the new Cinemax series Outcast [ Post Perspective ] Martín Hernández , sound designer on The Revenant , discusses his career and sound philosophy and shares exclusive looks at his process [ Avid Blogs ] Finally, Steve Hullfish at Pro Video Coalition talked to the editing team on Star Trek: Beyond (Steven Sprung, ACE, Kelly Matsumoto and Dylan Highsmith) as par...

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Happy Monday! If you're catching up on the weekend's post-production buzz, here's everything we saw fit to tweet about over the break. (No Game of Throne spoilers forthcoming.) The X-Files VFX Breakdown [ CG Meetup ] How to Animate a Winding Rope in Cinema 4D [ Lester Banks ] Avid NEXIS Software-defined Storage Platform is Now Available [ Avid Blogs ] Cutting on Final Cut Pro X at the University of Michigan [ Video Guys ] This week on MacBreak Studio: 360VR video in Final Cut Pro X [ Pro Video Coalition ] Blue Collar Post Collective officially launches West Coast chapter [ Post Magazine ] 5 myths and misconceptions about media management [ Red Shark News ]

Sight, Sound & Story 2016 Promo Video!  MEWShop’s one-day summit returns to New York on June 11, 2016 at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. Panels include the art and processes of editing documentary film and episodic television, and behind the the green screen with VFX artists. Our closing panel will highlight the career of award-winning feature film editor Anne Coates, ACE, with author and film historian Bobbie O’Steen. The summit culminates in a gala reception and networking session for guests, panelists and vendors.   [ MEWShop ] Review: RTW Continuous Loudness Control balances our perception of loudness [ Post Perspective ] ART OF THE CUT with Ken Burns’ doc editor Craig Mellish, ACE [ Pro Video Coalition ] Rich Harrington of RHED Pixel shares tips and tricks for making the most of Photoshop in your post-production workflow [ AOTG ] Michael Giacchino ( Up, Inside Out, Super 8 ) Will Compose Doctor Strange Score for Marvel [ SlashFilm ] Oliver Peters Demonstrates...