It’s that time of year again! That’s right, the 5DayDeal is back and better than ever, featuring three bundles with nearly 35 amazing filmmaking products and services for one super low price.
If you’re new to one of the best annual deals for filmmakers, 5DayDeal allows your favorite filmmaking brands to bundle their best products at a discounted rate that they wouldn’t normally be able to offer on their own. But the deal expires at 12 noon PST on June 14, 2022, so act quickly.
Why are so many filmmaking brands coming together?
It’s for a good cause! 5DayDeal gives 10% of every purchase away to charitable organizations like Make-A-Wish, Rise Against Hunger, Action Against Hunger, and Street Child.
In this 5 Day Deal review, we highlight some of the best offerings in each bundle of the 2022 5DayDeal.
- Main Bundle
- Pro Bundle
- Charity Bundle
Here are our favorite picks for each 5DayDeal Bundle…
2022 5DAYDEAL MAIN BUNDLE
The 2022 5DayDeal Main Bundle includes 20 products that range from courses, SFX, VFX, LUTs, plugins, and more. Now, 18 of the products are automatically available once you buy the Main Bundle, but two of the projects will only unlock when the 5DayDeal campaign reaches its goals.
The retail price for everything in the 2022 Main Bundle is valued at $2,100 – but with the 5DayDeal, you only pay $98! You get tons of amazing filmmaking tools while providing meals and education to those in need. That’s why we really love this deal!
Below are our top five favorite products in the Main Bundle.
Budget Maximizer 2.0
- Finance
- Workflow
- Video Tutorial
Budget Maximizer 2.0 is ideal for independent filmmakers and small production companies. The Budget Maximizer allows you to take the guesswork out of building budgets and developing estimates for your clients. It’s a tool that helps you figure out how much to charge for a specific job so you can ensure that you’re making a profit.
Main Features:
- Quickly and efficiently create a new estimate in minutes
- A streamlined process for creating new estimates, organizing project estimates, and keeping track of past budgets
- A proven strategy on how to present estimates to clients
- Reveals how to take care of your contractors in order to secure future work
- Save time when speaking with a new client to determine if the client’s expectations and budget will work
AE Academy Volume II
- After Effects
- Workflow
- Video Tutorial
AE Academy Volume II by Motion Science supplies 6+ hours of on-demand educational content to master After Effects and operate the program like a professional! Just take a look below at all of AE Academy Volume II training topics.
Main Training Topics:
- The Value Graph & Speed Graph
- UI Interface Build
- Wiggle Expressions, Time Expressions & Loop Expressions
- Expression Shortcuts
- Coloring Techniques & Coloring with Interpret Footage
- Working with Proxies
- Using Keylight & Luma Keying
- The Rotobrush
- Transfer Modes
- 2D Motion Tracking, 3D Motion Tracking & Stabilizing with Motion Tracking
- Face & Mask Tracking
- Using Content-Aware Fill
- Advanced After Effects Rendering & Media Encoder Rendering
The Expedite & Explore LUT Pack
- LUTs & Color Grading
- Inspiration
- Compatible with Mac + PC
The Expedite & Explore LUT Pack includes 11 LUTs that are compatible with Premiere, After Effects, Resolve, FCPX, and Avid. These LUTs are perfect for fast-moving creatives who frequently find themselves in run-and-gun situations.
These LUTs take your footage to the next level and are designed for both dark and light skin tones. You can use the LUTs on your field monitor or on-camera monitor for stylish tonality while maintaining full dynamic range.
So, whether you want to impress clients while on set or need some inspiration for a starting point for creating your own look, these LUTs will push your shots to a near-final grade in a matter of seconds.
Cinematic Drone Secrets
- Drone Photography & Videography
- Composition
- Workflow
Cinematic Drone Secrets by Drone Pro Academy is a complete course for the drone pilot who wants to master cinematic drone shots. This drone course starts with drone safety and how to register your drone as well as getting permission to fly in airspace.
Then, expert drone operator Chris Newman reveals his favorite techniques, demonstrates top-secret settings, and shows the essentials for cinematic drone shots. In addition to all of the above, you’ll get the top cinematic drone shots ebook, entrance into the drone secrets members-only Facebook Group, and drone and gear recommendations.
Main Training Topics:
- Navigating the FAA Crash Course
- Getting Started with your Drone Bootcamp
- Pro Drone Secret Sauce Settings Workshop
- Cinematic Foundation Masterclass
- Cinematic Drone Shot Secret Framework
Final Cut Pro X Editing Workflow
- Made for Final Cut Pro X
- Video Editing
- Workflow
With Final Cut Pro X Editing Workflow, Full Time Filmmaker guides you every step of the way inside Final Cut Pro X to efficiently create masterful edits. This course is three hours of organized training videos that amount to 20 video lessons. In the course, you can download keyboard shortcuts, LUTs, and practice footage. There are also quizzes at the end of each workshop to empower learning.
Main Training Topics:
- Intro to FCPX
- Data Management
- Starting a New Project
- Keyboard Shortcuts FCPX
- Sifting Process Part 1 & Sifting Process Part 2
- Editing To Music
- Export Settings
- Speed Ramping
- Stabilization
- Digital Zoom, Vertigo Effect, Reframing
- Light Leaks
- Creating Basic Motion Titles
- How to Green Screen
- Optical Flow (How to Fake Slo-Mo)
- Where to Find and License Music
- Sound Design 101
- Color Correction 101
- Color Grading – How to Install & Apply LUTS
- The Orange & Teal Look Explained
2022 5DAYDEAL PRO BUNDLE
If you’re a professional who chooses to upgrade to the 2022 5DayDeal Pro Bundle, you get everything in the Main Bundle plus nine more exclusive creative products. The Pro Bundle is valued at $3,100 retail but is available for just $137 during the 5DayDeal.
Here are our favorite products in the Pro Bundle.
Unreal Engine 5 for Beginners Course
- Video Editing
- Video Tutorial
- Inspiration
Comprised of 25 lessons and a complete runtime of five hours, get started with Unreal Engine 5 and the basics of Virtual Production in this exciting and hands-on course by Cinecom.net. Unreal Engine 5 for Beginners is a hands-on and exciting course for novices who learn the fundamentals of virtual production, such as live camera tracking, chroma-keying, and DMX. You can also expect to learn about the user interface and build realistic landscapes and interior scenes.
By the end of the course, you will be able to create your own scene and set your preferred mood using lights. You can animate virtual cameras or record live tracking using your phone. These stunning cinematic sequences will be easy for you to export and share online.
Double Your Rates Masterclass
- Marketing
- Finance
- Inspiration
Double Your Rates is a complete masterclass on pricing that will help you change your mindset on how you charge for your video work. This Masterclass contains the recordings of 12 live coaching sessions taken from Eric Thayne’s Six-Figure Filmmaker program. In fact, members of the program pay $1,000/month for access to these private sessions. And now for the first time, they are opening them up to the general public.
Topics covered in these value-packed sessions include:
- How To Know When it’s Safe to Raise Your Rates
- How To Get Your Past Clients to Increase the Amount They Spend
- The Secret to Keeping Your Prices High (and even Increasing Them)
- Why Most Clients Don’t Care About Your Lowest Price (and What They Actually Want)
- The Three Ways to Make More Money as a Filmmaker
- The Simple Mathematical Formula for Making More Money
- Three Things You Must Never Do in an Economic Crisis (and Three You Must Do)
- The 5 Reasons to Charge More for Your Work
- How To Get Clients Practically Begging to Pay You High Prices, Because They VALUE You
- The Top Three Ways to Make More from Each Job, Even if You Only have Cheap Gear
Color Grading Secrets Pro
- Compatible with Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve & Final Cut Pro X
Color Grading Secrets Pro – Advanced Module furnishes professional Color Grading instruction for Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or Final Cut Pro. This package is guaranteed to improve the look of your videos and films.
Main Features:
- Creating Mood
- Contextual Looks
- Suggesting Time of Day
- Dialing Looks to Taste
- Creating Looks Around Skin Tones
- Auditioning Different Looks
- Contrasts of Color Introduction
- Complementary Contrast
- Contrast of Saturation, Contrast of Hue, Contrast of Light and Dark
- Memory Colors and What Colors Mean
- Color Schemes and Harmonies
- Creative Looks Based on a Color Scheme
- Bleach Bypass
- Day for Night
- Cross Process
- B&W Look, Vintage Look, Cosmetic Look, Orange: Teal Look
C❤️MPLETE CHARITY BUNDLE
The 2022 5DayDeal Complete Charity Bundle is the ultimate super bundle worth over $4,300 in retail value. However, during the five days of the 5DayDeal, you can get nearly 35 products for only $166! The Charity Bundle includes everything in the Main Bundle, Pro Bundle, and the Exclusive Bonus. This translates to 180+ instructional videos, 56+ hours of training, and 3,000+ LUTs, effects, and tools.
These are our personal favorite products in the Charity Bundle.
Cinematic Textures Music Pack
- Audio, Music & Sound
- Registration Required
- Inspiration
Cinematic Textures Music Pack provides high-end cinematic music for your film projects. The tracks are designed to add depth and emotion and are not overly musical in the melodic sense. Instead, they sit in their respective emotive spaces and help you tell your story.
The Electric Pack
- Flash & Lighting
- Visual Effects
- LUTs & Color Grading
Want to add electric effects like Thor or Black Adam, along with a superhero-style look and feel? The Electric Pack by Triune Digital is a collection of over 260 stock footage assets for VFX compositing and graphic design. Rendered in ProRes and 4K ready, these assets are great for electric and lightning effects, superpowers, magic, sci-fi, motion graphics, and more.
Superhero LUTs
- Post Processing
- Visual Effects
- LUTs & Color Grading
Superhero LUTs provide a pack of 31 LUTs that deliver a superhero style to any of your films and projects. There are Alexa, REDLog, Blackmagic, Canon C-Log, V-Log L, S-Log2, S-Log3, Standard LOG, and .rec709 versions of each LUT.
LUTs include styles like:
- Avengers
- Batman (1989)
- Batman vs. Superman
- Black Panther
- Blade
- Captain America
- Chronicle
- Deadpool
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hellboy
- Kick-Ass
- Logan
- Man of Steel
- Robocop
- Spider-Man (2002)
- The Crow
- The Dark Knight
- The New Mutants
- The Suicide Squad
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Unbreakable
- Watchmen
- Wonder Woman
- X-Men
GET 2022 5DAYDEAL BUNDLE
The 5DayDeal is a small price to pay for the extensive tools you’ll receive to improve your filmmaking arsenal and help a good cause. And as freelance filmmakers and business owners, it’s an important practice to invest in charitable causes that truly matter. Once you get your bundle, you’ll be able to access the content via the Creative Highway login you create following your purchase.
