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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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Magic Bullet Grinder grinds your DSLR footage into a more editable formatWhile Grinder may seem redundant it’s fast, cheap and easy to use
Red Giant Software has just dropped a new tool into the family of Magic Bullet products and it might be of great interest to the DSLR shooter. Magic Bullet Grinder is a simple application tasked with transcoding your Canon 5D/7D/1D files out of their H.264 native state and into something a bit more usable. It also can create lower resolution offline versions of the same clips for editorial should you be in an offline to online position. While simple, Magic Bullet Grinder works quite well and has a few tricks up its sleeve. more »
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1st Video ships bringing more video editing to the iPhoneApp updated to encode better video.
There’s another entry into the iPhone video editing app category that has just hit the iTunes app store in the last day or so. VeriCorder Technology’s 1st Video (which I previewed here thanks to HandHeld Hollywood just after NAB) aims to one up the previous king of iPhone video editors, ReelDirector, by providing a bit more functionality and moving it beyond a novelty or a toy. UPDATE: 1st Video has received an update to output better video:
This is good news if you’re planning on buying the app as the video quality was one of its weakest points. more »
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The DV Show lists 14 FREE FCP tools. Here’s 14 paid ones as well.A great list of FCP freebies got me thinking about what are the must have paid tools as well The DV Show dropped a great post over the weekend that answered a question from one of their readers: “I’m looking for some plugins or tools to enhance my productions. I mainly use Final Cut Pro and was wondering if there are any free or low cost alternatives to make my videos look better.” With that they listed 14 Must Have FREE Plugins & Tools for Final Cut Pro. It’s a fantastic list of a number of great tools that will be right at home in any editor’s toolbox. But this post got me thinking about some of the paid plug-ins and tools that are great in the FCP editor’s toolbox as well. more »
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Another video editing app coming to the iPhone1st Video attempts to make an almost professional editing app
VeriCorder Technology was showing an entry into the iPhone video editing app with 1st Video. Hand Held Hollywood grabbed a little demo video of the app in action. It has apparently been submitted to the app store for approval so it may come to life any day now. more »
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Advertisement Come to NAB for my Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors classIf you’re at all curious about Avid Media Composer then this class can help
I’m very excited for my trip to the National Association of Broadcasters convention this year as I’ll be leading a couple of the In Depth sessions of the Post|Production world conference. The first, on Tuesday morning from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and part of the Avid Editing Workshop is, Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors. The second, Wednesday at 10:00 am, is Music Video Workflow. You must register to attend the educational part of the NAB show (unfortunately it’s not free) at the Post|Production World conference. This particular post will discuss the first class: Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors. Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors isn’t meant to be an epic battle royalé between the two applications where we compare and contrast item by item, or feature by feature. Instead it’s meant to take a look at Avid Media Composer through the eyes of an editor who either spent their whole editing career on Final Cut Pro or an editor who has an idea of what Avid is all about but still spends most of their time cutting on FCP. more »
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A few more notes on the EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro
I played around with the new Canon EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro this morning and I noticed a few other odds and ends after some discussion about the tool with folks on Twitter. Canon has a very detailed information page of their own which is helpful as well. If you haven’t downloaded yet then you can grab the plug-in here. more »
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Canon finally releases their DSLR plug-in for Final Cut Pro’s Log and Transfer toolUse the FCP Log and Transfer tool to directly transcode and import into FCP
We all know this fact: The Canon DSLRs (5D, 7D, 1D) use the H.264 codec for the video they shoot and wrap that into a .mov QuickTime. While Final Cut Pro does work with .movs, these H.264 versions are clunky to edit requiring much rendering when in a FCP timeline. H.264 wasn’t designed to be a robust edit format anyway so the files need to be transcoded into something more edit friendly. Enter the new EOS MOVIE Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro. You can download it from Canon’s website my selecting Mac OS X from the Drivers / Software Selection on the website. more »
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Q&A with the creator of FCS Maintenance PackJon Chappell talks about a tool that might save your butt
If you’re a serious Final Cut Pro user then you are probably aware of Digital Rebellion and the tools that they make. Be it their popular Video Footage Calculator, Preference Manager for Final Cut Studio or the recently released FCP Versioner (which I reviewed on PVC) these tools tend not to be flashy but rather very, very useful. They have also recently release FCS Maintenance Pack. Jon sent me a copy and after using it I had a number of questions about the product. A question and answer session follows. more »Page 18 of 21 pages « First < 16 17 18 19 20 > Last » Advertisement |
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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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