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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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Review: Apple Magic Mouse and Final Cut StudioI gave myself a week using the new Apple Magic Mouse with Final Cut Pro and Color
I’m on a constant search for the ultimate input device for editing. Look at my editing desk on any given day and there may be some mad combination of an Apple Mighty Mouse, a Kensington Expert Mouse (which is just a trackball), a Contour Shuttle Pro, a Wacom graphics tablet, a Poker Mouse and of course the keyboard. While the absolute best input device for editing is a keyboard it’s inevitable that you will have to reach for a mouse at some point during the edit day. Enter the new Apple Magic Mouse and its touch sensitive surface. But how is it for editing? more »
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Review: The Tangent Wave control surfaceThe Wave hardware makes Apple Color a much more pleasant working experience
I had a small wave of sadness come over me the other day as I boxed up the Tangent Wave control surface in order to return it back home to Tangent Devices in the UK. As I saw Color’s dark gray interface and colorful video scopes shinning in the back of the room I thought to myself ... “I’ve had my problems with you Color, I’ve said some pretty mean things about you in the past but I have to admit, I’m going to miss you
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ReelDirector lets the iPhone 3GS really edit videoIt’s a simple editor but it works
Months ago when the new Apple iPhone 3GS hit the market I questioned the claim that it could edit video, prefering the more proper term of “trimming.” But with the new app ReelDirector that desire to edit on the phone has become a reality. Word popped up on Twitter tonight that this app exists. I downloaded it and performed my first ever edit on an iPhone! more »
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First impressions of the Tangent WaveA control surface for Apple Color can really increase your productivity
I was very excited when a big FedEx box arrived a couple of weeks ago with a Tangent Wave control surface for Apple Color. I had a series of short videos that I was soon to be cutting and finishing and I wanted to finally give Color the proper test it deserved. I haven’t been a fan of Color in the past, what with its non-standard interface (when compared with most Mac applications), difficulty moving an edit from Final Cut Pro to the app and back again as well as general buggyness. Those issues have kept me from using it, instead opting for Colorista (when in Final Cut Pro) for color correction duties. After speaking with Tangent Devices, they agreed to send a Wave control surface over for testing. Combine that with the recent 1.5 update to Color and I decided it was time to give the app another try. But this isn’t about Color but rather first impressions using the Wave with Color. more »
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Advertisement WWDC keynote coverage for video pros around the webIt’s all been covered and discussed very well so here’s some links. The Apple keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference is soon to be a day old. If you are a pro-video user and you’ve been out of the loop today here’s a quick round-up from around the web as to some good blog posts and discussions on what went down today ... or the lack thereof. more »
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When your 16:9 tv isn’t enough there’s 21:9Philips ramps it up a notch but is it marketing more than good tech? Yesterday my PVC colleague Mark Christiansen posted this quick-link to to an utterly amazing promotional piece / short film from Philips touting their upcoming 21:9 television. It’s a fantastic piece of work with the camera drifting slowly through a crime scene in a bullet-time sort of way. Throughout the piece a number of the filmmakers step into the scene to explain various parts of their art and craft. Go and watch the piece and check out this new television and then come back for discussion. I call marketing bullshit on this TV. more »
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Kensington trackball as a poor man’s control surfaceMake your FCP color correcting just a little easier You may have never thought of using a trackball as a cheap substitute for a control surface when color correcting in Final Cut Pro but you can. At least you can use the functionality of a Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball This video says goodbye to Firewire 400Yes it’s silly but it will remind you about a lot of stuff I remember big, boxy Firewire 400 drive from some unknown company so many years ago that I can’t even remember when it was. When I showed it to my SCSI-loving editor/engineer he thought it was nuts and I wouldn’t use it for more than one job. Well we see where SCSI went. And I ended up with a lot of Firewire 400 drives after that. And I still have a lot of them. With the new Apple updates this week Firewire 400 is going. It’s 800 only now. TUAW has a post with this video embeded and it really reminded me just how many Firewire 400 drives, interfaces and appliances there are out there with Firewire 400. So get your 400 to 800 adapter and keep on working! Advertisement |
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to make using Colorista or the stock FCP 3-way color corrector to keep you hands off of the mouse. 
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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