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 switch
Kicking the tires on the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 Multicam update
Update Alert: Final Cut Pro X goes to 10.0.3
Adobe teases Prelude at the San Francisco Supermeet, FCPUG changes its name
Tangent Element panels are now shipping
Avid Media Composer 6 review online
Update Alert: Magic Bullet Suite 11.2
Update Alert: FxFactory 3.0
The 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 Supergood
Clean those Adobe Media Cache Files
Christmas Gift Ideas for the Editor in Your Life
Kicking the Tires on Avid Media Composer 6
The Adobe Premiere Pro timeline for Final Cut Pro users
Avid Media Composer 6 is announced and it’s moving into the future
All of the Automatic Duck plug-ins are now free
A report on Walter Murch’s talk at the Boston SuperMeet
A lesson learned from my FCPX to Resolve roundtrips
Update Alert: DaVinci Resolve 8.1: FCPX support, lots of little things
A Few Recent Avid Media Composer Finds
A short Q and A with Automatic Duck about their Adobe move
Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011
$995 Final Cut Pro to Media Composer crossgrade ending very soon
Kicking the tires on the Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1 update
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Magic Bullet Grinder grinds your DSLR footage into a more editable format

While Grinder may seem redundant it’s fast, cheap and easy to use

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Red Giant Software has just dropped a new tool into the family of Magic Bullet products and it might be of great interest to the DSLR shooter. Magic Bullet Grinder is a simple application tasked with transcoding your Canon 5D/7D/1D files out of their H.264 native state and into something a bit more usable. It also can create lower resolution offline versions of the same clips for editorial should you be in an offline to online position. While simple, Magic Bullet Grinder works quite well and has a few tricks up its sleeve.

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compression
Editing
GentryMedia Sister Sites
ProPhoto Coalition
Post Production
Software • (1) Comments • Most recent comments by: DaneH, • Permalink


Sunday, May 23, 2010

1st Video ships bringing more video editing to the iPhone

App updated to encode better video.

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There’s another entry into the iPhone video editing app category that has just hit the iTunes app store in the last day or so. VeriCorder Technology’s 1st Video (which I previewed here thanks to HandHeld Hollywood just after NAB) aims to one up the previous king of iPhone video editors, ReelDirector, by providing a bit more functionality and moving it beyond a novelty or a toy.

UPDATE: 1st Video has received an update to output better video:

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This is good news if you’re planning on buying the app as the video quality was one of its weakest points.

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Cameras
Distribution
Editing
GentryMedia Sister Sites
Apps4Phones
Mobile Devices
Software • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: Scott Simmons, lightprism, • Permalink


Sunday, May 16, 2010

The DV Show lists 14 FREE FCP tools. Here’s 14 paid ones as well.

A great list of FCP freebies got me thinking about what are the must have paid tools as well

The DV Show dropped a great post over the weekend that answered a question from one of their readers: “I’m looking for some plugins or tools to enhance my productions. I mainly use Final Cut Pro and was wondering if there are any free or low cost alternatives to make my videos look better.” With that they listed 14 Must Have FREE Plugins & Tools for Final Cut Pro. It’s a fantastic list of a number of great tools that will be right at home in any editor’s toolbox. But this post got me thinking about some of the paid plug-ins and tools that are great in the FCP editor’s toolbox as well.

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Editing
Post Production
Software
Tips • (6) Comments • Most recent comments by: Jon Chappell, Oliver Peters, Matt Jeppsen, Graeme Nattress, Scott Simmons, Graeme Nattress, • Permalink


Saturday, May 01, 2010

Review: MC Color control surface

Euphonix’s entry into the more affordable color grading surface is a strong one

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A bit earlier this year Euphonix began shipping its highly anticipated MC Color control surface. This unit was designed for use with Apple Color and has been welcomed by Color users to add another option to their hardware based control surface choices. Until the MC Color came along your choices were either one of the JL Cooper units or the more affordable Tangent Wave. At $1,499 the MC Color doesn’t break what I think is the magic $999 mark (magic in the sense that it will put a control surface in the hands of a lot more users) but it’s right along side the Wave in price and less than the JL Cooper offerings. The MC Color is also a very new unit. There’s a few glitches and bugs than can probably be worked out in software but the hardware is what it is at this point and there’s both a lot to like and a missing feature in the hardware itself. But there’s one thing that’s certain, the MC Color makes the Color application much more useful than a mouse alone.

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Hardware
Post Production • (2) Comments • Most recent comments by: Scott Simmons, kondo, • Permalink


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