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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. 
Final Cut Pro X Multicam Editing webinar now available on-demand10 Final Cut Pro things FCP editors might be missing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6A collection of Avid Media Composer related links for my NAB Migrating to Avid classAn elegant iPhone timecode calculatorRandom notes from my first “real world” Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 editNAB 2012: SpectraCalNAB 2012: Apple and Final Cut Pro XNAB 2012: LightworksNAB 2012: Baselight for Avid Media ComposerNAB 2012: Quantel new Pablo and Neo NanoNAB 2012: Promise Technology’s portable Thunderbolt J4 and J2NAB 2012: NewBlueFX Titler ProNAB 2012: PluralEyes 3.0 from Singular SoftwareNAB 2012: Technicolor CineLights from the GoPro boothAutodesk Smoke 2013: it really changed for the betterMy top 5 (or so) Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 featuresHow to preview Avid Media Composer’s MXF files for free without Media ComposerMy NAB 2012 Post|Production World classesBaselight for Final Cut Pro is one of the most powerful legacy FCP grading plugins everARRI’s DNxHD Alexa update, Sorenson Squeeze Pro and OP this, OP thatWhat’s happening at NAB 2012?The C300 short Hustle and some before and after imagesTip Tuesday: Disable a clip in the Avid Media Composer timelineTesting the 7toX Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X conversionQ and A with Bunim/Murray’s Mark Raudonis about their recent Avid switch
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NAB 2012: Quantel new Pablo and Neo NanoOne of the high-end finishing, color grading and DI stations goes software only with a second panel option.
If you’re lucky enough to work in the rarified air that is Quantel then you’re probably well aware of all their product offerings. If you’re not then it’s worth noting that Quantel has entered into the “lower cost” post-production arena by introducing lower cost versions of some of their hardware and software, including a software only option for their flagship Pablo product. Of course “lower cost” is a relative term and the mid-five-figures might be lower cost to some an not to others. more »
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NAB 2012: Promise Technology’s portable Thunderbolt J4 and J2Thunderbolt is beginning to live up to it’s promise of small, fast and portable storage. Affordable remains to be seen.
Promise Technology has become a major player in the relatively new Thunderbolt storage market and their Pegasus RAIDs were all over the NAB show floor. If you’ve never seen a Pegasus RAID, they’re big, fast, multi-drive units, just like a professional desktop RAID should be. Promise Technology also introduced two new small drive enclosures that will them continue to be leaders in all things Thunderbolt. more »
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NAB 2012: NewBlueFX Titler ProThey call it “A Titler for the Professional Editor’s Schedule.”
NewBlue, Inc. is a software developer that had a booth in the South Hall’s plug-in pavilion. They were showing their NewBlue Titler, a dedicated title creation and animation tool that resides in most all the major NLEs. It has a clean, simple interface that didn’t look like it breaks any new ground as far as design goes but that may be okay if you’ve got the need to create and animate your titles in a hurry … which many of us do. more »
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NAB 2012: PluralEyes 3.0 from Singular SoftwareBelieve it or not I think tiny little PluralEyes 3.0 is the NAB 2012 product I’m most looking forward to using.
One of my favorite products being shown at NAB 2012 is the upcoming PluralEyes 3.0 from Singular Software. Many of use have been using PluralEyes for a lot of years now in all of our NLEs but when PluralEyes 3.0 ships, probably this summer, you’ll see a totally different and cleverly redesigned application. more »
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Advertisement NAB 2012: Technicolor CineLights from the GoPro boothA simple, affordable color correction application for the GoPro crowd might be useful in other circles as well
I wandered into GoPro’s rather large booth on Thursday morning as they had both a Porsche 911 and Ford GT40 on display with a ton of GoPros attached. An announcement late in the NAB week was that an update to the tiny GoPro cameras would finally give them 24 frames per second capability. It was also a surprise that none other than Technicolor was going to supply a flat cinema-style picture profile for a bit more dynamic range in your GoPro footage as a part of that firmware update. I was even more surprised to see Technicolor demoing a new color correction application called CineLights in the GoPro booth as well. more »
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Autodesk Smoke 2013: it really changed for the betterAnd at a new lower price of $3,495 it’ll find its way into a lot more edit suites
Autodesk has been saying for quite a few weeks now that Smoke is changing and they were right. What was previously a very high-end, very expensive, somewhat inaccessible piece of post-production software is now a very high-end, much more affordable (though still expensive for many) and more approachable piece of post-production software. The biggest news of all is that Smoke for Mac has gone from $15,000 down to $3,495. The second bit of news is that it should be a lot easier for editors to use. more »
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My top 5 (or so) Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 featuresThere’s a lot packed into the upgrade. It’s not perfect but it makes a big leap forward.
The cat is out of the bag on the Adobe CS6 Production Premium. It isn’t shipping yet but I’ve been able test out some of the CS6 products for a few weeks now. While there’s big additions and changes in the entire Creative Suite my first and main focus was to see just how Premiere Pro has changed, what new features have been added and what hasn’t been addressed as of yet. Overall, Adobe continues to make Premiere Pro a better product that will let you “edit your way”. It isn’t perfect (no NLE is perfect) but it’s a lot better than 5.5 … and 5.5 was pretty good itself. Here’s my top 5 (or so) features in Premiere Pro CS6 and a couple of comments on what is still missing. Please forgive some wonkieness on PVC if you’re not seeing certain images as we’ve been having some server issues recently that they are working to fix. A reload of the page might help. more »
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How to preview Avid Media Composer’s MXF files for free without Media ComposerCalibrated Software makes some very handy tools for the working video professional
Here’s a handy little tip for viewing and previewing Avid Media Composer .MXF files outside of Media Composer itself. It came up via Twitter recently and it’s one of those little tips that I can’t believe I didn’t know before now. It’s mainly for those moments when you wonder … “what’s in the file that is called OS020705A01.CBA36E04F7E03DB.mxf?” Is a human really supposed to be able to read those things? more »
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LIGHTING: Advanced Cucoloris Use Illustrated by a Solar Eclipse
Q: What happens when you stack several pattern-making devices in front of a light? A: Extreme lighting goodness. Learn why here…
I love stacking cucolorii (plural of “cucoloris”) and I thought it was time to write an article about how this technique works and why I like it so much. I was a bit stretched for ideas that would illustrate this concept… and then an eclipse happened. Why that made a difference is a very interesting story…
Compositing in FCP X
On this week’s MacBreak Studio
On this week’s MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training a few things I’ve discovered in my exploration of the compositing features in Final Cut Pro X.
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