Craft and Technical Bursaries What are Craft and Technical Bursaries for film professionals? Craft and Technical Bursaries are funding for training grants of up to £800 for film professionals working in eligible craft and technical departments to spend towards the costs of training which meets key skills priorities in Post Production. Who can apply? You can apply if you are a film professional working in an eligible craft and technical department in feature films or documentaries. [Read More]

Blackmagic Design European Pop Up TourLondon - Madrid - Rome - Munich - ParisJoin us at the Blackmagic Design European Pop Up Tour and experience the revolutionary new DaVinci Resolve 14, now 10 times faster and featuring new tools for editing and colour correction, full Fairlight audio post production and multi user collaboration.As well as the opportunity to get hands on with DaVinci Resolve 14 and the new DaVinci Resolve Micro Panel and DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel, you can register for one of our free DaVinci Resolve Training Classes. [Read More]

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-On May the 4th Only-30% OFF Cinema 4Dincluding Perpetual, Short-term and Upgrade LicensingJoin the Rebellion. Enjoy Huge Savings.Whether you're new to Cinema 4D, want to upgrade or need an additional license, you save 30%. But only for 24 hours!*On Thursday, May 4, 2017, you will be able to purchase all Cinema 4D and BodyPaint 3D licenses and updates* for 30% less!Whether you're new to Cinema 4D or BodyPaint 3D, want to upgrade, or simply purchase an additional license, this is your chance. [Read More]

Soho Editors appointed Blackmagic Certified Training Partner. Become a certified DaVinci Resolve professional!Press Release April 2017Soho Editors are appointed Blackmagic Designs first Certified Training PartnerIn April 2017 Blackmagic announced the launch of a new Authorised Training program to be rolled out worldwide and Soho Editors are pleased to announce they have been appointed the first Certified Training Partner in the UK.Brian Cantwell – Managing Director of Soho Editors said “We have been working with Blackmagic for a number of years developing courses and content and it has long been the goal to establish a fully certified program that would provide a quality assured training experience across the world. [Read More]

Blackmagic Design - Press Release 24th April 2017.Yesterday Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 14, the biggest release in the history of the software! It's quite a dramatic upgrade. With this update, we were really focused on solving some of the bigger problems in post production.The first problem was performance. We have made some dramatic performance gains and DaVinci Resolve 14 is now up to 10 times faster than the previous release. It's very fluid now and much more responsive. [Read More]

New hardware colour correction control panels are designed for new changing workflowsFremont, California - March 2, 2017 - Blackmagic Design today announced two new portable hardware control panels for DaVinci Resolve, its professional editing and colour correction software. With professional editing becoming extremely popular in DaVinci Resolve, these new control panels are designed to allow colour correction workflows to be mixed in with editing workflows, while introducing new levels of quality in affordable hardware control panels. [Read More]

The Production Crewing People Since 1997 Soho Editors have been supplying professional freelance talent to the post production industry spanning all genre and post skills to create engaging, entertaining and inspirational content.From March 2017 Soho Editors will start offering the same high quality and respected services to production clients, called Soho Crew!Soho Editors will work with the highly respected and vastly experienced Dan Smith of Boutique Production Services. [Read More]

Welcome to the 13th Annual Televisual Bulldog AwardsTelevisual's Bulldogs are your chance to have your say about the best British programmes of 2016.Rather than being voted for by a small group of the great and the good, the Bulldogs are voted for by the entire UK production community. And that means you. And, as an added incentive for you to vote, we’ll pick six lucky voters out of the hat who’ll each receive one of six fantastic prizes.There are 18 categories, all related to the television of 2016. [Read More]

So you want to be an editor, and work on Drama?Often, I have been asked my advice on how to become a professional editor. Strangely, even though the technology used to create edited content has radically reinvented itself many times over the years, the advice I have offered has remained pretty consistent.Just to explain, the reason I get asked for career advice so often, emanates from my role as one of the founding partners of Soho Editors, Europe’s leading freelance Post-Production Talent Agency. [Read More]

Avid Media Composer 8.7 Now Available - Introducing New Features to Accelerate Creative Storytelling By Wim Van den Broeck in Latest Software, Video Editing December 15, 2016 The holiday season is upon us, and the Avid team has prepared a shiny new version of Media Composer. This new update (8.7) is packed with great new features that will accelerate the way you tell your stories. Here’s a detailed overview of what’s new in Media Composer 8. [Read More]

ITTP CONFERENCE 2017The ITTP [Institute for Training in Television Production] is holding its third conference at Pinewood Studios on 31st January 2017, where the latest developments on its ‘Approved Skills’ scheme will be discussed.The aim of our Approved Skills scheme is to define a set of skills standards needed by those entering the broadcasting industry. These standards are being agreed by industry and the craft guilds, and can inform the design of educational and training courses. [Read More]

Jon Creamer from Televisual Magazine writesThe DPP has announced that from 1st October 2017, UK broadcasters BBC, BT Sport, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, Sky and UKTV, will no longer accept delivery on videotape of any programmes commissioned after this date. The announcement represents the end of the use of videotape in UK programme making, and the universal adoption of the DPP’s common file delivery specification AS-11 DPP.“The introduction two years ago of standardised file delivery has been a huge success,” says DPP Managing Director Mark Harrison. [Read More]

Another day and another report from an event, it seems like the Final Cut Pro X word is spreading! The first FCPX World event was held in London on the 15th of November, Alex Gollner Reports.Today I attended the first FCPXWorld event in London hosted by Soho Editors featuring case studies by James Tonkin and Thomas Grove Carter. Apple also did the first London presentations of the recent MacBook Pro and Final Cut updates.Soho Editors managed to gather a big crowd. [Read More]

Grab this opportunity to save 40%* on Creative Cloud.** Get an Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps membership for £26.68 incl. VAT per month for your first year.Offer ends 20 October. [Read More]

PRESS RELEASE 25th August 2016 Soho Editors appoints a New Business Development Manager. Nick Wortman joins the UK’s leading Talent and Training Company, Soho Editors, as the manager of New Business Development. Soho Editors, the UK’s most successful freelance talent agency and training provider, has added Nick Wortman to the team to develop new business sectors for the company. [Read More]

Soho Editors, LumaForge and FCP.co are pleased to announce thePresenting from the ShareStation Workflow Suite at Spaces Zuidas, Amsterdam.This special event will take place on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September next to the RAI in Amsterdam and it will be hosted by Ronny Courtens, whom we all know from his many contributions to FCP.co. Ronny is a highly respected post-production professional with nearly 40 years of experience in the international film and television industry. [Read More]

Whether it was the lawn tennis at Wimbledon, the football in France, the Grand Prix at Silverstone, the EU referendum, the changes in Parliament, or the search for an elusive Pokemon on your mobile phone, there have been plenty of distractions of late. With all that lot going on, you could be forgiven for having missed the latest updates for Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications, so I figured I’d clue us in on some of the highlights which slipped in under our creative radars…Flagship Adobe application Photoshop got a few minor tweaks in its latest patch, but of particular interest are some of the visual recognition features it gained, notably the ability to analyse an image of some text, then suggest font matches for it, and even download and install those fonts for you from TypeKit. [Read More]

Adobe steps it up. Adobe Premiere Pro becoming more accepted by industry pros.Film fans know that, in spite of being an early year release, Marvel’s Deadpool’s managed to break a laundry list of box office records. To date, it has pulled in around 800 million Dollars worldwide, and will surely shatter even more fiscal records upon home release. Superhero movies are big business. Yet whilst film fans were marvelling at the comedic fourth-wall-breaking antics of Ryan Reynolds as the titular hero, most were unaware of a less apparent, but equally ground-breaking feature of Deadpool; it was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro. [Read More]

Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.The ups and downs of Adobe Flash and it’s reborn incarnation as Adobe Animate.Here at Soho Editors, we train all kinds of apps, software and such. One of the interesting benefits of this, is that we get a good idea of popularity trends; which applications are on the way out and which ones are coming into favour. One of those which tailed off to virtually never being trained in the past year, when I used to train people on it quite regularly, is Adobe’s Flash. [Read More]

Using Adobe’s Cloud to improve your employabilityIncluding a ‘lite’ plug-in version of Cinema 4D with After Effects, and with more 3D applications on the way from Adobe, at Soho Editors we've certainly noticed this affecting the training enquiries we receive. In fact, there were so many recent requests for C4D training, C4D developer Maxon asked us to become an authorised training centre, which we now are.It’s not hard to see why that is so, a dedicated 3D application has always been somewhat conspicuous by its absence from the Adobe’s pot-pourri of creative applications, until fairly recently that is. [Read More]

Automatic Duck Xsend Motion Instantly Recreates FCPX Timeline as a Motion 5 ProjectSeattle, WA (NAB)--(SPW)Automatic Duck (www.automaticduck.com), the original creators of timeline translation software for filmmakers, editors and motion graphics artists, announced today that it will debut a new timeline translation application for Final Cut Pro X editors and Apple Motion artists. Making its debut at the FCP Exchange Workshop (http://fcpexchange.com/nab2016/) during the NAB 2016 conference in Las Vegas, Automatic Duck will demonstrate Xsend Motion, the Company’s newest application that converts XML from Final Cut Pro X to a Motion 5 project, effectively building a bridge between the two applications. [Read More]

Blackmagic Design Announces Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio Are Now ShippingFremont, California --(SPW)--Blackmagic Design today announced that both Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio, the world’s most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, is now shipping and is available for download from the Blackmagic Design website for both Mac OS X and Windows.Blackmagic Design today announced that both Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Studio, the world’s most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, is now shipping and is available for download from the Blackmagic Design website for both Mac OS X and Windows. [Read More]

At MAX 2015 Adobe announced a slew of Creative Cloud news:They unveiled loads of new desktop app features, including precise Dehaze in Lightroom CC, which has been available since MAX, expanded support for UltraHD in Premiere Pro, the new Shaper tool in Illustrator, and the ability to create realistic 3D models in the brand new Adobe Fuse CC (Preview) and easily import and work on them in Photoshop CC.They talked about Adobe Stock getting more deeply integrated into the Creative Cloud apps – giving you Stock search within apps – and how we are adding video to Adobe Stock. [Read More]

RAVENSBOURNE RAVE ABOUT INSIDE THE EDITRavensbourne announced today a three year deal with the industry’s leading creative editing training company, Inside The Edit. Course leader of Post Production Greg Loftin commented on their new partnership.“At Ravensbourne we've been running undergraduate courses in editing for over a decade. We often wrestle with the question of how best to teach the craft of editing to large cohorts. We think Inside The Edit has the answer. [Read More]

Can something that’s free also be good value? That’s the intriguing question raised by the launch of the new DaVinci Resolve 12 software package, so we set out to find exactly what it has to offer.Let me start by asking you a question. How many times have you walked into a shop, picked up a beautifully crafted professional tool that will do everything you need it to do, and have then taken it to the shopkeeper and asked ‘how much will this cost?’ only to be told ‘don’t worry, that’s free. [Read More]

It was a busy time for my colleagues and I here at Soho Editors last week, but quite a telling one too. The relentless thrust northward of post-production, film, TV and broadcast services in the UK, saw us - and indeed many other companies - exhibiting at the Kitplus Tour, hosted at the BBC’s Media City UK complex at Salford Quays. For all of our presentations at the show, it was standing room only, with many more than had pre-registered for the sessions tipping up on spec. [Read More]

Right, so this year we’re gonna show Final Cut Pro X at IBC”, announced Brian Cantwell, Managing Director of Soho Editors, to our busy office early one mid-August morning. Imagine John Landis’ Trading Places scene when the trading floor is waiting for the final orange juice numbers. Pop in the capsule, cup under the dispenser and watch the caffeine run free. Over the next 5 weeks, our training team researched, scheduled, pencilled, and debated (argued) all things Final Cut Pro X. [Read More]

Cartoon Desert - Cartoon Theme for Final Cut Pro X - Pixel Film Studios from Pixel Film Studios on Vimeo.AUGUST 25, 2015Pixel Film Studios, FCPX plugin developer, announced the release of three cartoon theme templates for Final Cut Pro X. The theme templates include Cartoon Desert, Cartoon City and Cartoon Space.The FCPX Templates are theme packages created exclusively for use in FCPX. Pixel Film Studios' cartoon styled themes can be used to showcase pictures, videos and text in a fun and vibrant environment. [Read More]

Blackmagic Design Announces Fusion 8 Public Beta is Available Now for DownloadFremont, California - August 27, 2015 - Blackmagic Design today announced the public beta of the free version of Fusion 8, the world’s most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, is now available for download from the Blackmagic Design website. This beta is for the free version of Fusion 8 and is available for both Mac OS X and Windows. A beta for the paid version, Fusion 8 Studio, which adds stereoscopic 3D tools and is designed for multi user workgroups and larger studios, will be available shortly. [Read More]