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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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Q and A with Bunim/Murray’s Mark Raudonis about their recent Avid switchIf you haven’t heard they have moved from FCP7 to Media Composer Back in January news broke that reality television producers Bunim/Murray were switching their post-production facilities from Final Cut Pro to Avid Media Composer. This probably didn’t come as a great shock to anyone who follows post-production as the release of Final Cut Pro X had left many people (especially those in the broadcast world) a bit stunned at its lack of broadcast features. There was a lot written about this subject but I had a few more questions so I spoke with Bunim/Murray’s senior vice president of Post Production Mark Raudonis as he has been the public face of this switch. Our Q and A follows. more »
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Avid Media Composer 6 review onlinePlus a few other Media Composer 6 bits and pieces
Last week a review that I wrote of Avid Media Composer 6 went online over at Studio Daily. Here’s the link so if you’re interested in what I think is a rather thorough review that tries to go beyond just bullet points and a feature list then please give it a read. Now that I’ve had a couple of months beyond the first kicking the tires reaction here’s a few more MC6 observations. more »
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Update Alert: Magic Bullet Suite 11.2Avid Media Composer 6 support for Magic Bullet Looks is the big highlight
Red Giant Software must have been doing some work over the holidays (that or they’ve had a busy 2012 thus far) as just over week ago we saw an update to Magic Bullet Suite. Beside offering full Mac OS X Lion compatibility the big news is that Magic Bullet Looks now runs in Avid Media Composer 6. more »
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New That Post Show: Edit Pro SupergoodNew episode is a discussion of Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro X
Just over a week ago I enjoyed sitting in on another episode of That Post Show where we had a calm and rational (mostly) discussion of Avid Media Composer 6 and Apple Final Cut Pro X. While it might seem these two NLEs are rather far apart in their perception and target market they are indeed both non-linear editors that can be used to tell a story as well as the two newest NLEs on the block. The show is called Edit Pro Supergood and it’s a long one, clocking in at a bit over two hours. more »
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Advertisement Kicking the Tires on Avid Media Composer 6The rewritten application is now 64 bit, all new and yet very familiar at the same time.
Avid Media Composer 6 began shipping last week after being announced just under a month ago. The release has seen quite a bit of press as it was teased back in the summer and a large part of that tease was letting users know what they could expect when this version came along. I haven’t had a chance to really pound MC6 as of yet since it just shipped but I have been kicking the tires on it for the last few days. Keep an eye on That Post Show for upcoming episodes all about MC6. more »
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Avid Media Composer 6 is announced and it’s moving into the futureAn updated interface, 64 bit and more 3rd party hardware support are among the highlights
Today was the day for the Avid webcast where they announced a new version of Media Composer. Version 6 will ship on November 15 and may be one of the most important releases of Media Composer since … well version 5.0. Version 5 ushered in the big change that is the Smart Tools and caused quite a ruckus amongst old timers. Version 6 will see an updated interface. That interface is a surface change but there’s a lot of under-the-hood changes as well. In fact, I think it could be said that Media Composer 6.0 is sort of like a reboot, or maybe a reset as I heard one person say. The last time we heard the term reboot when talking about an NLE was Final Cut Pro going to version X. Avid’s reboot is much more subtle. It’s the kind of reboot that is needed, mostly under-the-hood that builds a platform to move forward into the future without sacrificing the features we’ve come to use and rely on. more »
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All of the Automatic Duck plug-ins are now freeWith the move toward Adobe Auto Duck is doing a solid for the editing and post community
It was just over a month ago that the post-production community was surprised by the news that the perennial workflow / transfer tools from Automatic Duck were suddenly gone. If you’ve been under a rock get up to speed on that news here and here. Another bombshell dropped Friday night when news broke that all those legacy Auto Duck products are now available for free. more »
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Update Alert: DaVinci Resolve 8.1: FCPX support, lots of little thingsThis latest update allows roundtripping to and from FCPX as well as refinements for other workflows
The engineers over at Blackmagic Design continue their mad dash to update and upgrade DaVinci Resolve. The end of last week saw the release of Resolve 8.1. This comes after the huge 7 to 8 upgrade we saw earlier in the year but this incremental update to 8.1 adds some pretty significant features itself. Probably the headline feature is support for Final Cut Pro X’s new XML format. Secondary to that but equally important to those using Resolve in a grading facility is better Avid Media Composer roundtripping and some FCP7 XML updates. Plus you can even use Resolve 8.1 as a go-between to move from FCPX to FCP& or maybe Media Composer to FCPX! That is if that need ever really arose. Read on for a list of changes and some experiments with roundtripping. more »
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2D Footage with a Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5
Edit and Optimize 2D Stereo Pairs from a 3D Video Camera or Twin Cameras with a Modified Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects CS5.5
Adobe included a 1-step option to create a 3D Stereo Camera Rig in After Effects CS5.5, to everyone’s enthusiasm for a simpler workflow in 3D space. Great if you are working in 3D space in After Effects, but what about an easy option for 3D Stereo pairs captured by a 3D camera or twin cameras on a rig? In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly modify the Stereo 3D Rig in After Effects to quickly mux your L&R video files and adjust the convergence for anaglyph, interlaced or stereo pairs output.
How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot
A contracted article, sponsored by Datavideo Corporation.
Our friends at Datavideo recently asked me to write an article called How to get the “24p” look for your live-switched multicam shoot. The article covers many factors involved in accomplishing that goal, including framerate, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, and menu settings in Datavideo’s digital HD video mixers (“switchers”) and recorders, and also the menu settings in several pro cameras from Canon, Panasonic, and Sony. The included chart explains which of the cameras have a direct HD-SDI output, and which require an optional converter to go from HDMI to HD-SDI to connect to the Datavideo digital HD video mixer. As you’ll see in the article, the approach is quite different from the workflows I normally cover, which are more appropriate when programs are to be edited, as opposed to when they are shot —and potentially broadcast— live. The graphics for this article were done by Victory Elliot of Datavideo Corporation.
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