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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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Quicktips 2011 Day 30 follow-up for the Day 27 Speed up FCP’s XDCAM exportFurther tests from this Reader Quicktip shows there might be more to this than originally posted.
This original Reader Quicktip about speeding up the FCP XDCAM export that came to us from James Stuckey Weber really showed he was having some very dramatic speed increases just by closing the FCP Canvas and Timeline. It seems after a bit more of James testing and discussing this with some fellow editors there’s a bit more to tell. It’s more about collapsing multiclips that closing the windows. Read on for James’ new testing numbers. more »
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Quicktips 2011 Day 29: Unlocking bins in Avid UnityFebruary 29, 2011 - Here’s a tip for dealing with locked bins when working in Avid Unity
This reader submitted Quicktip comes from Brendan McCullough. This is a tip for when you encounter a locked bin while working on an Avid Unity system. I don’t work on a Unity so I haven’t ever encountered this myself but it looks like a nice, sneaky little tip. I would say fair warning though to be sure you know what’s happening in the suite around you whenever modifying something like this in a shared environment. more »
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Quicktips 2011 Day 28: Playback Media Composer clips via thumbnailsFebruary 28, 2011 - When in Frame view in an Avid bin you can playback the thumbnails
In one of the earlier Quicktips I showed scrubbing through clips in a Final Cut Pro bin via the Thumbnail bin column. In Avid Media Composer there’s a tab at the top of the bin marked Frame. That’s a quick way to view Avid clip thumbnails in a bin. Plus you can playback and JKL scrub the clips as well. more »
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Quicktips 2011 Day 27: Speed up FCP’s XDCAMexportFebruary 27, 2011 - Conforming XDCAM can take a while but this tips speeds it up
This Reader Quicktip comes to us from James Stuckey Weber and it’s a tip to speed up the exporting process of the XDCAM format in Final Cut Pro. I don’t do a lot of XDCAM export from FCP so I can’t confirm the rather dramatic speed-up this tip claims but I can’t deny it either. When the XDCAM export does present itself next time I’ll be trying it out. more »
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Advertisement Quicktips 2011 Day 26: Use a zero in front of a number for better sortingFebruary 26, 2011 - Putting a zero in front of single digit numbers sorts them properly
Today’s Quicktip almost seems like a no-brainer but I’m surprised that I still see projects come in the door where items have been numbered in a bin 1, 2, 3—- 10, 11, 12 instead of 01, 02, 03—- 10, 11, 12. Why add the zero? So when you sort the items by name in the bin they are sorted properly. more »
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Quicktips 2011 Day 25: Two Avid tips for FridayFebruary 25, 2011 - These Reader Quicktips are great for the advanced Media Composer user
Today we have two Avid Media Composer Quicktips that come to us from Ra-ey Saleh, a Symphony Online Editor working in Sydney. There’s two tips here, one for the ever popular Avid Paint effect and one great tip for playing back the edit while in Color Correction mode. more »
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Quicktips 2011 Day 24: Access FCP’s timeline keyframe editorFebruary 24, 2011 - You can animate and keyframe filters and motion parameters right in the FCP timeline
Everyone who edits with Final Cut Pro knows that you have full access to animating and keyframing parameters via the Viewer. Double-click a clip in the timeline and it loads in the Viewer. There you can keyframe parameters in the Motion tab or parameters of any filter that might be applied. But you can also do this in the timeline as well. more »
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Quicktips 2011 Day 23: moving all keyframes on a shot in FCPFebruary 23, 2011 - If you’ve keyframed a shot in FCP you can move all the keyframes at once in the FCP timeline
This reader Quicktip comes over from Steve Sabban and it’s a follow-up to Quicktip number 7: changing FCP filters lengths partially applied to a clip. I thought that was a particularly handy tip but it didn’t go into any real timeline manipulation of keyframes. This tip does. 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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