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-demand
10 Final Cut Pro things FCP editors might be missing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
A collection of Avid Media Composer related links for my NAB Migrating to Avid class
An elegant iPhone timecode calculator
Random notes from my first “real world” Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 edit
NAB 2012: SpectraCal
NAB 2012: Apple and Final Cut Pro X
NAB 2012: Lightworks
NAB 2012: Baselight for Avid Media Composer
NAB 2012: Quantel new Pablo and Neo Nano
NAB 2012: Promise Technology’s portable Thunderbolt J4 and J2
NAB 2012: NewBlueFX Titler Pro
NAB 2012: PluralEyes 3.0 from Singular Software
NAB 2012: Technicolor CineLights from the GoPro booth
Autodesk Smoke 2013: it really changed for the better
My top 5 (or so) Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 features
How to preview Avid Media Composer’s MXF files for free without Media Composer
My NAB 2012 Post|Production World classes
Baselight for Final Cut Pro is one of the most powerful legacy FCP grading plugins ever
ARRI’s DNxHD Alexa update, Sorenson Squeeze Pro and OP this, OP that
What’s happening at NAB 2012?
The C300 short Hustle and some before and after images
Tip Tuesday: Disable a clip in the Avid Media Composer timeline
Testing the 7toX Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X conversion
Q and A with Bunim/Murray’s Mark Raudonis about their recent Avid switch
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 18: Two FCP tips for today’s Quicktip

February 18, 2011 - There’s 2 Reader Quicktips here, timeline preferences and preferred effects

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Today’s a Reader Quicktip that is actually two tips from Final Cut Pro and After Effects trainer Clay Asbury. One tips is how he likes to setup his default FCP timeline settings and one is about using FCP’s Effect Availability option.

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 17: Using extended markers to create subsclips

February 17, 2011 - This Reader Quicktip explores FCP’s extended markers and making subclips from them

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This Reader Quicktip comes from Final Cut Coach. It involves using the markers and the extend marker option in Final Cut Pro. Plus there’s discussion of using markers to makes subclips. Final Cut Coach also has its own site that looks to be a growing Final Cut Pro tutorial site.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 15: Create audio synced subclips from overcranked footage

February 15, 2011 - This Reader Quicktip might be especially helpful for the music video people

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This Reader Quicktip comes from Matthew Gilna in Los Angeles. He’s been working on a cool series called The LXD or League of Extraordinary Dancers. This Quicktip is a technique that he’s been using quite a lot on this series to create new synced clips when he has to sync video with separate audio.

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 14: Better performance for .motn files in FCP Timeline

February 14, 2011 - This Reader Quicktip is for all those that use Motion projects in FCP

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This Reader Quicktip is all the way from Lu Nelson in Berlin. If you use Apple Motion a lot and integrate those Motion project files in your Final Cut Pro timeline then read on for what could be a nice realtime trick.

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 13: Overwrite bin column layout upon changes

February 13, 2011 - I change my column headings all the time and overwrite the old ones

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My editing user settings are constantly evolving. One things that changes a lot are the bin column layouts that I recall for various editing tasks. I use many different columns for both Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro. I very often resize columns and add or remove headings to saved layouts. Rather than always save a new heading or repeatedly change the same saved layout over and over I will save and overwrite an existing column layout.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 11: Playhead of your timeline to match FCP edit to tape In point

February 11, 2011 - This tip isn’t for everyone but if editing to tape it is a very good one

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There’s probably not near as many Final Cut Pro editors that have to perform tape output today versus just a few years ago (using the FCP Edit to Tape window) but for those of us that still do use tape we tend to use it on a pretty regular basis. This Reader Quicktip is from Ben Scott, a London-based editor who apparently has to do a lot of Edit to Tape work. It’s quite a deep and involved tip entitled Getting the playhead of your timeline to match the edit to tape window’s In point. In fact there’s a couple of tips within this one.

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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 09: A bunch of FCP tips from Digital Rebellion

February 9, 2011 - These are some oldies but goodies

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Here’s a big batch of Reader Quicktips that comes to us from Jon Chappell over at Digital Rebellion. They’ve always maintained a very good blog as well as providing the Final Cut Pro community with some very useful tools, including the FCS Maintenance Pack. Here’s four quicktips from way back in 2008. Click over to the full Digital Rebellion article for all the images and comments.

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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Quicktips 2011 Day 08: Add and Edit markers in FCP 7 for speed

February 8, 2011 - This Reader Quicktip was an addition to the FCP 7 update and one of the best

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This Reader Quicktip comes to us courtesy of Alex Ricciardi from Endless Picnic. It highlights the Add and Edit marker functionality that was added in the Final Cut Pro 7 update.

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