Scott Simmons
Scott Simmons was born in rural West Tennessee and didn't really realize that movies and tv had to be made by actual people until he went to college. After getting degrees in both Television Production and Graphic Design he was in one of the early graduating classes at the Watkins Film School in Nashville, Tennessee. During that time at Watkins he discovered editing. While most of his classmates in film school wanted to be directors, Scott saw real career opportunities in post production and took a job as an assistant editor after completing film school. In 1999, Scott took the leap into freelancing and in 2007 accepted a position as an editor at Filmworkers - Nashville. In 2005 Scott created The Editblog a website dedicated to all things editing and post-production which is now housed here at PVC. Someday he hopes to edit on a beach with a touch screen device, a wireless hard drive and a Red Stripe.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
If you need to search your FCP media via words and spoken content then Get is for you.
One of the big hits at NAB 2010 was a little program set up in a tiny booth at the plug-in pavilion called ‘Get’, from a company called AV3 Software. Get isn’t really a plug-in at all but rather a stand alone application that works in conjunction with Final Cut Pro to phonetically index media and allow the editor to search for words within that indexed media. In its simplest terms, if you have an interview with a subject that’s talking about resumes, you can search for the word “resume” and Get will return results of all the clips that it indexed with the word “resume” including markers on each clip where the word appears. Since Get is a standalone application you then send the search results to Final Cut Pro where the clips will import with markers intact. Many editors will instantly see where this might come in handy.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
As in how they made a Home Depot spot with a bit of post behind the scenes
I love a good behind the scenes / how-to / how we did it piece that breaks down a complex shot or goes into some detail on how a visual effects sequence was created. There’s always more to learn for anyone in production or post. When you’ve decided that you’ve learned all you need to know in this business then that’s when others will eclipse you in both creative abilities and technical prowess.
There’s a nice 8 minute how-to that was recently posted on Vimeo that takes you through the creation of rather cool television spot for Home Depot.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
You can add BITC in both Media Composer and FCP (Premiere Pro too) but one is better than the other
If you’ve ever had to send out a copy of an edit for client review (and really, what editor doesn’t do this on a very regular basis) then you may have very well been asked to provide a BITC. BITC stands for burn-in timecode and is as old as editing itself. Dylan Reeve noted right after this post went up that in some countries it’s called TCIP for Timecode in Picture. The numbers running on a BITC give the client an exact number to provide back to the editor when commenting on specific points in an edit. That timecode references the master sequence timecode of the edit. Back in the “old days” of editing you often had to output a cut to videotape and then make a dub of that tape using the super-output of the deck. But today’s non-linear editors provide a filter that you can throw on a cut to produce the BITC. Media Composer and Final Cut Pro both have this effect but they operate in a very different way.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
A few great time-sucks from around the web
There’s a couple of really good multi-part interviews that have been airing incrementally around the Internet that I wanted to point to. If you haven’t been following them then you’re in for a real treat as you catch up. Hollywood Reinvented is currently in part 5 of an interview with Bill Warner, the man who created Avid. Flickering Myth is taking an extended look at the career of Walter Murch.
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Friday, August 06, 2010
Will they ever stop? (Maybe not if they’re funny)
And here is yet another NSFW animation from the xtranormal movie site that this time http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6876311/” title=“puts the vfx guy against the producer”>puts the vfx guy against the producer. It’s 4:31. I wonder what will be next: craft services vs. producer?
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
And yet another Xtranormal video. This time about editing.
Well here’s another little NSFW video (4:38) that someone made from the Xtranormal “movie” generation website that’s make its way around Twitter (thanks for finding it Shane). This one is titled SO, YOU’RE AN EDITOR…. You can just imagine the subject matter as an editor talks to a .... well I won’t spoil the ending.
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Monday, August 02, 2010
Edit Mule’s handy utility can save a lot of time and frustration
When I was teaching the Music Video Workflow class at NAB this year, one part of the discussion centered on the editing timeline and how, if you’re not careful, it can become a multi-layered, sloppy mess. Everyone has their own way of housekeeping within the editing timeline but one thing you should never do is turn over a sloppy, unorganized timeline to another editor. I got an email from one of the attendees after the class that pointed me to a program called Auto Collapse that can automate timeline cleanup in Final Cut Pro.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sure, we’ve all had this conversation haven’t we?
Here’s a fun little 2:48 video that’s been making the Twitter rounds (NSFW as there’s some language so be warned) so for those readers who aren’t on Twitter, the embed is after the jump. It’s called CINEMATOGRAPHER VS. PRODUCER, (make with the xtranormal animation website) is a fictional discussion of the lovely DSLR world we live in and even has a nice laugh in there for editors too! Sadly, it’s kinda based in reality.
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Adam Wilt | 09/05
Production stills from Art’s August evening outing with a prototype Alexa digital cine camera.
Allan Tépper | 09/05
Allan Tépper requests three improvements in iTunes’ podcast handling, plus one more thing
Terence Curren | 09/04
Philip and I discuss in the latest Terence & Philip show.
Chris Meyer | 09/04
Adding imperfections can make graphics more compelling to watch.
Alex Lindsay | 09/02
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