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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. 
Q and A with Bunim/Murray’s Mark Raudonis about their recent Avid switchKicking the tires on the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 Multicam updateUpdate Alert: Final Cut Pro X goes to 10.0.3Adobe teases Prelude at the San Francisco Supermeet, FCPUG changes its nameTangent Element panels are now shippingAvid Media Composer 6 review onlineUpdate Alert: Magic Bullet Suite 11.2Update Alert: FxFactory 3.0The new Fotoshop by Adobé can change the way you look!Did you know MPEG Streamclip could convert YouTube videos?New That Post Show: Edit Pro SupergoodClean those Adobe Media Cache FilesChristmas Gift Ideas for the Editor in Your LifeKicking the Tires on Avid Media Composer 6The Adobe Premiere Pro timeline for Final Cut Pro usersAvid Media Composer 6 is announced and it’s moving into the futureAll of the Automatic Duck plug-ins are now freeA report on Walter Murch’s talk at the Boston SuperMeetA lesson learned from my FCPX to Resolve roundtripsUpdate Alert: DaVinci Resolve 8.1: FCPX support, lots of little thingsA Few Recent Avid Media Composer FindsA short Q and A with Automatic Duck about their Adobe moveSteve Jobs 1955 - 2011$995 Final Cut Pro to Media Composer crossgrade ending very soonKicking the tires on the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1 update
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Please label tapes and disks: An open letter to DPs, camera ops, DITsJust a simple label of format and frame rate will tell the editor a lot about what is on the tape or disk
Man, there are a lot of high definition formats out in the world today. Just to spell them out would be a dizzying array of letters and numbers. 720p, 1080i, 23.98, 30p ... this list could literally go on and on so I won’t even attempt a partial list other that what I have above. Just take a look at this HD format chart. That’s a lot of different formats and it doesn’t even take into account the different flavors of a particular format that camera manufacturers often come up with on their own. With that in mind this PVC post is an open letter to all DPs, ACs, camera ops, DITs, anyone and everyone associated with the camera department to please label their tapes and hard drives with the usable, relevant information of shooting format and frame rates, codecs and cameras so post-production will at least have an idea of what is being handed to them. more »
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RED announces REDCINE-X™Seeks to remove bad taste left behind by the original RedCine
RED Leader Jim Jannard today announced a new version of RedCine that they hope to be shipping sometime in August called REDCINE-X. For those of you who have used, or attempted to use, RedCine then you might have watched the video (see the embeded clip after the jump {sorry about the autoplay} or watch the full-rez version here) with quite a bit of shock and awe as it really looks and feels nothing like RedCine. And this is a good thing. more »
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The iPhone 3G S can’t really EDIT video!But it can TRIM it and shoot some fun stuff to boot
Okay, let’s get one thing straight about the new Apple iPhone 3G S ... it can’t edit the video it shoots. What it can do is trim the beginning and end of each and every clip. That may just be semantics talking but I’ve seen lots of stuff on the Interweb saying that you can edit the video that you shoot on the iPhone ... to me editing means that you can actually join two separate clips into one. You can’t do this on the iPhone 3G S. But you indeed can trim your clips to shave off unwanted frames at the head and the tail. It’s a really cool thing to be able to do, especially if you are running low on storage space on the phone. And considering you have to tap the start/stop button on the touch screen (as opposed to say a hard button on the side) you are likely to have some slop at the head and tail as you begin a shot. more »
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Take the Adobe Non-Linear Editing Software SurveyAdobe has recently posted an online survey about non-linear editing software. The link was floating around Twitter and it’s a great survey to share with the rest of the editing community. There’s a lot of questions focusing on 64-bit support and workflow. It’s great to see Adobe reaching out to the community and hopefully they will take the information to heart as they continue to further improve their video editing offerings. I wish they would have asked about Adobe help and documentation. As I try to learn more about After Effects and actually use Premiere Pro I get so frustrated when you go to the help menu for help and instead of getting a searchable pdf it takes you their website. Rarely do I ever quickly find an answer to a question there without a lot of searching. Advertisement Twitter find: The future of video editing?Super LoiLoScope is a unique NLE interface
Twitter user renatoghio posted a tweet earlier today with a link. He asked this simple question: The future of video editing? When I first watched this video of Super LoiLoScope in action I thought ... woah! That’s crazy. The creators of this unique editing product look to be taking something that today has an established paradigm, video editing and its timeline based way of working, and turning it on its ear. Most all editors we use today utilize the clips in a bin, preview and edit monitor, timeline way of working. This was established long ago and has served the video editing industry well for many year now but it’s nice to see someone thinking way outside the box when creating a new editor. more »
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Avid has their own pan and zoom tools as wellThere’s not as many options as FCP but one of the two are included
I recently pointed out three plug-in tools for performing "Ken Burns" style pan and zoom effects on still images in Final Cut Pro. Avid Media Composer has options for doing the same thing. While there aren't as many options (and one of them is the same as Final Cut Pro) there is one that is part of the software package. more »Web video: The Top-Ten Things I Wish I Knew About Final Cut Pro…Ten Years Ago.Great video full of good tips for the new Final Cut Pro user I don’t know how I missed this video when it was posted back in March at the great editing blog Suite Take ... but I’m glad I found it now! The Top-Ten Things I Wish I Knew About Final Cut Pro…Ten Years Ago more »3 tools for panning and zooming in Final Cut ProThe Ken Burns effect isn’t just for iMovie
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