Black Friday Deals 2020 – MZed, Lutify.me & FilmConvert

Special Deals

by Olaf von VossNovember 25^th, 2020

Black Friday 2020 is kicking in and so are the accompanying deals with it. in this part of our ongoing Black Friday Deals series, I’ll cover interesting deals from MZed, Lutify.me and FilmConvert. Happy shooting and happy shopping!

No valuable filmmaking can be achieved without knowledge, and even if you already have gathered some nice shots you’ll need software to process them so we’re going to dive into some nice deals on online workshops and post production software!

Black Friday Deals 2020 – Workshops by MZed

MZed has quite a long history of holding quality workshops mostly targeted at creatives all around the globe (like this one here by Tom Cross ACE). Their workshops are hosted by professionals and highly regarded members of their respective field of work and these classes are mostly not only about learning a certeain piece of software or how to light a scene using 3 lights. They are also about the accompanying emotonal impact on the audience, lots of background intel, the whole creative process from start to finish, not only a simple how to.

For Black Friday 2020 MZed is offering the following:

• Join MZed Pro for $299 $199 (saving: $100). This grants you access to over 450 lessons across more than 350 hours worth of content for a full year. This includes monthly member gear giveaways and also includes the chance to win a Canon EOS C70 cine cam (“I’m an MZed Pro” contest). Furthermore you’ll get the Osiris LUT pack for free.
• Save 65% on all courses from Shane Hurlbut ASC
• Save 70% on Cinema Sound
• Save 50% on Master the Moment fro Ray Roman
• Save 50% on The Art & Technique of Film Editing with Tom Cross ACE

Lutify.me Deals

Lutify.me is an online tool for managing and creating your LUT library within a convenient online interface (read here for our coverage). There are a a bunch of pre-defined LUTs available, and, depending on your tier level, you can also export your very own LUT creations to use them in any NLE.

• Lutify.me Basic tier: $29 / 1st year, $19.90 for every additional year
• Lutify.me Standard tier: $39 / 1st year, $19.90 for every additional year
• Lutify.me Professional tier: $59 / 1st year, $19.90 for ever additional year

Since the higher price for the professional tier is only valid in the first year, I think it’s the best choice, really. For Black Friday 2020, they offer 30% off of everything, jsut make sure to enter the coupon code BF202030OFF at checkout.

FilmConvert Nitrate Deals

Once you’re done shooting you need to get going with your post production workflow. And one of the easiest ways to achieve consistent, yet appealing, color grading is to use FilmConvert Nitrate. It emulates real photochemical film stock in order to get that nice look you’re after.

FilmConert comes in many shapes: as a standalone version, as a plugin for Adobe After Effects or Premiere Pro, as a plugin for Final Cut Pro or as an OFX plugin (for use with DaVinci Resolve for example). The standalone version is the most expensive one but it includes all plugins as well.

• FilmConvert Nitrate Bundle (standalone + all plugins): $249 $139 (savings: $110)
• FilmConvert Nitrate Adobe Plugin: $179 $99 (savings: $80)
• FilmConvert Nitrate OFX Plugin: $179 $99 (savings: $80)
• FilmConvert Nitrate FCPX Plugin: $179 $99 (savings: $80)

There’s also the new CineMatch plugin for color matching different cameras in post production.

• CineMatch Adobe Premiere Pro Plugin: $259 $149 (savings: $110)
• CineMatch DaVinci Resolve Plugin: $259 $149 (savings: $110)
• CineMatch Bundle: $389 $219 (savings: $170)

That’s it for today, we’ll keepp posting more deals once they surface. Since we try not to publish just random deals, we will categorize them as far as possible.

What do you think? Are any of these deals worth a closer look? Share your thoughts in the comments below!