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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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Update Alert: FxFactory 3.0A solid update to the popular plug-in tool brings new effects, new development partners including Nattress
A big update just hit the Final Cut Pro / Adobe After Effects world this week with Noise Industries FxFactory 3. This update to the popular plug-in architecture introduces not just a lot of new effects but a new interface to the actual FxFactory program. This release sees an interesting new color correction tool from Yanobox and the first FxFactory tools from Nattress and an FCPX only transition package from idustrial revolution. more »
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Wes’ Home Depot How-ToAs in how they made a Home Depot spot with a bit of post behind the scenes I love a good behind the scenes / how-to / how we did it piece that breaks down a complex shot or goes into some detail on how a visual effects sequence was created. There’s always more to learn for anyone in production or post. When you’ve decided that you’ve learned all you need to know in this business then that’s when others will eclipse you in both creative abilities and technical prowess. There’s a nice 8 minute how-to that was recently posted on Vimeo that takes you through the creation of rather cool television spot for Home Depot. more »
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VFX GUY VS. PRODUCER. Yep another xtranormal animation.Will they ever stop? (Maybe not if they’re funny) And here is yet another NSFW animation from the xtranormal movie site that this time http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6876311/” title=“puts the vfx guy against the producer”>puts the vfx guy against the producer. It’s 4:31. I wonder what will be next: craft services vs. producer?
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How they made the Old Spice Super Bowl commercialA nice lesson about a great spot
If you watched the Super Bowl just a couple of weeks ago then you probably say the Old Spice The Man Your Man Could Smell Like spot. If you didn’t see it it’s embeded above. IMHO it was one of the most clever ads of the night. It looked practical like it was done in camera with the exception of a couple of elements that had to have been cgi. The creators of the spot were recently interviewed by Leo Laporte on TWIT where they discussed the creation of the stop. It’s very clever how they pulled it off. The video is after the jump. It’s just under 20 minutes long. more »Advertisement 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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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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