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The Plugins Actually Worth Paying For
Plugin marketing is a genre of its own. Every tool promises to transform your workflow, every launch video…
The Best Laptop for Video Editing
Every laptop maker sells a “creator” machine now, and most of them are gaming laptops with the RGB…
The Small-Studio VFX Pipeline Stack
Every VFX vendor now sells an indie tier, and every indie tier comes with a different set of…
The On-Set VFX Data Kit
Ask any VFX vendor what quietly eats a shot budget and you’ll hear the same word: guessing. Guessing…
The VFX Workstation Guide
On an invoice, a VFX workstation and an editing workstation look like the same machine. Same brands, same…
Archiving Projects Without Losing Your Mind
The project wrapped eight months ago. The client paid, the invoice is closed, everyone moved on. And then…
The Best Hard Drives for Your Editing NAS
So you did the responsible thing. You read the NAS guides, you picked a box with enough bays,…
Monitor Calibration for Video Editors
Monitor calibration has a snake oil problem. On one side, marketing that says “factory calibrated” like it’s a…
The Best Color Grading Control Surfaces
Back in the keyboard guide I promised the control surface roundup was coming. Well, here it is, and…
The Best Monitor for Color Grading
Here’s an uncomfortable question: how do you know your monitor is telling you the truth? You graded that…