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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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FCP: an annoying delete, duplicate bug found while I was remapping the FCP keyboardIf it’s not a bug then it needs to be documented in the user manual
When I’m working I’m always in a constant state of awareness about how I can change my keyboard mapping to make my workflow faster and more efficient. The keyboard manifesto argues that changing Final Cut Pro’s default keyboard mappings can make your editing faster and more efficient. But it’s also important to be aware of changes that you might make. I never would have expected a couple of keyboard changes to cause me an hour of confusion and rebuilding a timeline but that’s what this FCP bug did. more »
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From reduser.net: Avid to Apple Color - step by stepA reduser user claims to have a tested methoed
I was slogging through the RED workflow section of Reduser tonight, as I tend to do from time to time, and ran across this post called Avid to Color - step by step. more »
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Automagic part 2: mocha for Final CutIf you need to gather tracking data to pass to FCP then this is the app for you
I am not a VFX artist. I think that if I could plug a data pipe straight into my brain and download an entire profession right into the gray matter ala The Matrix it might be some level of visual effects expertise. It’s amazing what you can do with affordable desktop software but even something as accessible as Adobe After Effects can take a whole career to master. It’s also amazing at the level of quality that one can achieve with all of the other desktop applications that are out in the world today. I received a copy of Imagineer Systems’ mocha for Final Cut a while back but I hadn’t had the time or the need to really use it. But at a recent automotive shoot for The Garage Blog we were looking at footage and someone commented that we should have put our own logo license plate on the cars before we drove them (never mind the fact that such a license plate doesn’t exist). Idea! I can do that in post and mocha for Final Cut will be the perfect tool. more »
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Digital Rebellion’s Footage Calculator adds more codecsI think that’s pretty much all of them now
A while I back I posted a round-up of various footage calculators around the Internet. The one from Digital Rebellion had the most supported codecs but was lacking some new ones like ProRes Proxy and ProRes 4444. Well Digital Rebellion has updated the Footage Calculator with ... well, pretty much all of them. more »
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Advertisement Review: Apple Magic Mouse and Final Cut StudioI gave myself a week using the new Apple Magic Mouse with Final Cut Pro and Color
I’m on a constant search for the ultimate input device for editing. Look at my editing desk on any given day and there may be some mad combination of an Apple Mighty Mouse, a Kensington Expert Mouse (which is just a trackball), a Contour Shuttle Pro, a Wacom graphics tablet, a Poker Mouse and of course the keyboard. While the absolute best input device for editing is a keyboard it’s inevitable that you will have to reach for a mouse at some point during the edit day. Enter the new Apple Magic Mouse and its touch sensitive surface. But how is it for editing? more »
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Review: The Tangent Wave control surfaceThe Wave hardware makes Apple Color a much more pleasant working experience
I had a small wave of sadness come over me the other day as I boxed up the Tangent Wave control surface in order to return it back home to Tangent Devices in the UK. As I saw Color’s dark gray interface and colorful video scopes shinning in the back of the room I thought to myself ... “I’ve had my problems with you Color, I’ve said some pretty mean things about you in the past but I have to admit, I’m going to miss you
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Top VFX/MoGraph Twitterers to Follow
Great Links to Cool VFX and Motion Graphics Served Fresh
Topher Welsh at the videohive blog writes exactly how I feel about Twitter:
“Personally I think that the whole “updating your status” part of Twitter is ridiculous. There, I said it. I don’t care what you are eating for dinner, or if someone is being annoying in the movie theatre. Keep it to yourself. The thing that keeps me addicted to Twitter is the people that tweet the cool stuff: The behind the scenes of Terminator Salvation, The VFX breakdown of Fast and Furious 4, the new tutorial that Aharon Rabinowitz just put onto Red Giant TV. Those are the reasons why I use Twitter, and these are the people that you should be following.”
See his short list of folks to follow here. Be sure to scroll down to the comments section for a few more folks to follow.
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