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This short Adobe tutorial goes through the necessary steps to add a grading track to your SpeedGrade timeline and use that to add new sets of grades on top of your color corrections. This would allow for creative looks across multiple clips or, even, a whole project.

Read it here.

The Adobe blog has endorsed Infinite Skills' "Learning Adobe Premiere Pro CS6" tutorial DVD which has samples of several lessons available for free online. Says Adobe, "This series is one of the most in depth training series on Premiere Pro CS6 to date. Over 22 hours of training and 111 lessons are available. Jeff has in depth knowledge about Premiere Pro and his delivery is enjoyable to follow along with."

Filmmaker Preston Kanak is hosting a new, free seven-part tutorial series going over the basics of creating a RAW time-lapse, from gear to distribution. In the introduction video, found below, Kanak says, "There's a few things I've learned in my short time with filmmaking and the first is the importance of sharing. Not only does it help foster a supportive online community but it also leads to more work. So this whole tutorial will be available for free online."

Want to create your own fancy outer space time-lapse video (like the one found below)? It's actually pretty simple to do and Vimeo user The Film Artist has a quick, easy-to-follow tutorial using publicly available International Space Station images from NASA's website and Quicktime Pro. Read it here.

Editors moving from older versions of Apple Final Cut Pro to FCP X find that quite a bit of reorientation is required. Standard terminology and editing practices have been changed. It’s time to break the ice and understand what makes FCP X tick.

Canon has created a series of on-camera tutorials for their DSLRs that can be viewed right on the cameras' LCD screens. The videos can be downloaded as .movs and then stored on a computer or the camera's memory card. Get them here. (via DesignTAXI)

Editor Alex Gollner has a tip for editing timelines in Final Cut Pro X at any frame size and frame rate by creating the timeline in a composite clip stored in the event. Read his full tutorial here on his blog.

Premiumbeat.com provides this tutorial for one of the simplest ways to export and upload video to YouTube out of Final Cut Pro. They write, "As the Internet continues to dominate an increasing percent of our media consumption, it’s no surprise that clients almost always want a version of their video project created for web playback. In this post we’ll explore a simple way to create video optimized for YouTube using Final Cut Pro."

Premiumbeat.com has collected ten video tutorials for color correction in Final Cut Pro X. They write, "Color correction has gotten quite an upgrade in Final Cut Pro X, with significant improvements to the color grading interface and automatic color matching tools. The following video tutorials cover all aspects of the FCPX color correcting environment, addressing topics such as the FCPX color correction interface, workflow and advanced color effects."

Richard Harrington shows you how to cut a multicamera sequence within Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 in this quick, 4-minute Lynda.com tutorial found below. The entire Premiere Pro CS6 tutorial can be found here. (via Richard Harrington)

Andy Shipsides of AbelCine goes over the workflow for getting Sony F65's raw 4K footage off of SR Memory cards and into Final Cut Pro 7 and Avid Media Composer. Watch the three-part video tutorial below. (via fcp.co)

Deke McClelland gives a quick Lynda.com tutorial on how to use the brand new video-editing feature available now in the public beta version of Photoshop CS6. Watch below as he edits together clips, adds text, incorporates music and more.

Patrick Inhofer of Tao of Color Grading gives a very thorough video review and tutorial of CineGrain, a hard drive which allows you to add real film grain to digital footage.

Vincent Laforet goes over how he sets up his Canon 5D Mark II for shooting video. He says, "These settings are meant to work well for web, broadcast televisions and motion pictures – but will require grading (color correction) to add saturation and contrast back in. The idea is to capture the flattest image possible with the most amount of detail and range of exposure possible.

Filmmaker Phil Arntz gives a step-by-step breakdown of his gear and instructions as to how he goes about making his time-lapse films, like the one found below. He says of his gear, "The body [of the Canon 550D] is cheap, the lenses are cheap, the cards are some of the cheapest you can find and the batteries are nearly free! If this isn’t a motivation to get you out and shooting, then I don’t know what is."

Check out these step-by-step instructions from AETuts+ on how to edit a time-lapse video using Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Quicktime and a DSLR of course. Read them here.