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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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Come to NAB for my Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors classIf you’re at all curious about Avid Media Composer then this class can help
I’m very excited for my trip to the National Association of Broadcasters convention this year as I’ll be leading a couple of the In Depth sessions of the Post|Production world conference. The first, on Tuesday morning from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and part of the Avid Editing Workshop is, Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors. The second, Wednesday at 10:00 am, is Music Video Workflow. You must register to attend the educational part of the NAB show (unfortunately it’s not free) at the Post|Production World conference. This particular post will discuss the first class: Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors. Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors isn’t meant to be an epic battle royalé between the two applications where we compare and contrast item by item, or feature by feature. Instead it’s meant to take a look at Avid Media Composer through the eyes of an editor who either spent their whole editing career on Final Cut Pro or an editor who has an idea of what Avid is all about but still spends most of their time cutting on FCP. more »
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Oscar winning animated short Logorama
Yesterday the word went around Twitter that the 2010 Oscar winning animated short film Logorama was available on Vimeo. It’s 16 minutes long and a very clever piece of filmmaking. If it gets pulled from Vimeo it’s also available in 2 different parts on YouTube as well as VodPod. The Wikipedia page has a bit of good info on the short. There’s also the official site were they list many of the awards that Logorama has won ... surprisingly (at the time of this writing) leaving off the Oscar! A few more notes on the EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro
I played around with the new Canon EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro this morning and I noticed a few other odds and ends after some discussion about the tool with folks on Twitter. Canon has a very detailed information page of their own which is helpful as well. If you haven’t downloaded yet then you can grab the plug-in here. more »
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Canon finally releases their DSLR plug-in for Final Cut Pro’s Log and Transfer toolUse the FCP Log and Transfer tool to directly transcode and import into FCP
We all know this fact: The Canon DSLRs (5D, 7D, 1D) use the H.264 codec for the video they shoot and wrap that into a .mov QuickTime. While Final Cut Pro does work with .movs, these H.264 versions are clunky to edit requiring much rendering when in a FCP timeline. H.264 wasn’t designed to be a robust edit format anyway so the files need to be transcoded into something more edit friendly. Enter the new EOS MOVIE Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro. You can download it from Canon’s website my selecting Mac OS X from the Drivers / Software Selection on the website. more »
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Advertisement NAB launches its own iPhone appEasily manage all of your time at the 2010 NAB Show
Going to the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters convention? Have an iPhone? Then you’ve got to grab the free NAB Show iPhone app (iTunes link). They’ve crammed a lot of information into this little program and you can find just about anything and everything about NAB 2010 right in the app. more »Q&A with the creator of FCS Maintenance PackJon Chappell talks about a tool that might save your butt
If you’re a serious Final Cut Pro user then you are probably aware of Digital Rebellion and the tools that they make. Be it their popular Video Footage Calculator, Preference Manager for Final Cut Studio or the recently released FCP Versioner (which I reviewed on PVC) these tools tend not to be flashy but rather very, very useful. They have also recently release FCS Maintenance Pack. Jon sent me a copy and after using it I had a number of questions about the product. A question and answer session follows. more »What about a low rez to hi rez conform option for 7D footage on an Avid?Is this a workflow you might be interested in?
There’s a forum topic over at Reduser.net that I’ve been following for quite a while. It’s called new Jamfuze info new Jamfuze info and is a discussion about a Macintosh software product, written by a user, that works to process RED .R3D media into mfx files for direct importing into Avid Media Composer. That thread eventually moved into a discussion of a similar product that might include processing of Canon 7D (and I assume 5D, 1D, Rebel T2i) footage as well. What might become 7Dfuze was born. more »
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Editing a multicamera concert shot on Canon 5DsIt was our first true multicam show with the 5Ds and the results were nice
It’s no secret that Canon 5Ds are everywhere. They’ve shot music videos, short films, commercials and more Vimeo videos than anyone can imagine. One place where I haven’t heard about a lot of usage (as of yet anyway) is in multicamera concert production. There’s very real reasons why you wouldn’t want to use any small-form-factor DSLRs (with no gen lock, timecode input or external monitoring) in a multicam production. But that doesn’t mean that they can’t get the job done. more »
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Adjustable Final Cut Pro Master Templates
An outstanding “hack” to make your Master Templates flexible
On this MacBreak Studio episode, I show Steve Martin a fantastic trick from fellow Motion Guru Patrick Sheffield’s new book How to Cheat in Motion that lets you adjust different parts of your Motion template - but directly inside Final Cut Pro. This is a great tip for anyone who works with Master Templates in Final Cut Pro.
Motion Tip: Alpha Channels and Outlines
Create an outline around any graphic or video that has transparency
I recently saw a question about how to create an outline around a graphic in Motion. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be, but it’s not too difficult either. Here’s a method that is quick and flexible.
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