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.

My lengthy Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review now online
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
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

My lengthy Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review now online

Studio Daily posted the review last week after pounding the thing on a number of edits

Last week Studio Daily published my Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review. It’s a longie but a goodie as I tried to go into detail about what I really like and what I kinda don’t like about this brand new Premiere Pro. I had been pounding it hard on several projects before writing the review. I have had a few questions about exactly what kind of jobs I’ve been working on with it.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Final Cut Pro X Multicam Editing webinar now available on-demand

Plus a little screencast in this blog post on a topic we didn’t get to cover.

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I had great fun last week presenting the Final Cut Pro X multicam editing webinar for Moviola Filmmaking Webinars. It was a lightning fast 90 minutes and we covered a lot of ground but we didn’t get through everything I wanted to cover. The On-Demand version can be purchased and I recorded an extra screencast about one topic that I didn’t get to cover in the webinar. Check it out after the jump.

 

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Friday, May 11, 2012

10 Final Cut Pro things FCP editors might be missing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

These are a few of the things that I found myself searching for as I’ve been moving over to Premiere Pro CS6 as a FCP 7 replacement

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Adobe is making a big play for Final Cut Pro users with their CS6 release of Premiere Pro. It’s vastly improved over the Premiere Pro of old and is a lot like Final Cut Pro. There’s even a keyboard shortcut layout for Final Cut Pro users. But it is a totally different application than our old Final Cut friend and some things you’re used to in Final Cut Pro either aren’t there or just work differently. Figure out the differences and work with the changes as Premiere Pro CS6 is a great application … and as we all know Final Cut Pro 7 isn’t going to get any better.

 

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Thursday, May 03, 2012

A collection of Avid Media Composer related links for my NAB Migrating to Avid class

I promised to post a bunch of helpful links for migrating editors so here they are.

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With the 2012 NAB show a thing of the past that means the Post|Production world conference is a thing of the past too. One of the classes I taught this year was Essentials of Avid Media Composer Editing for Migrating Editors . It was a great class and a full house of people moving or thinking about moving to Media Composer. I promised the class I would post a list of links and resources they might find useful when moving to Avid. Here’s that list.

 

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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

An elegant iPhone timecode calculator

UPDATE: ALL THE FREE CODES ARE GONE Panoptik has created a very good looking, easy to use timecode calculator

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Many, many years ago I wondered if we were going to get some good filmmaking apps for the iPhone. That was 4 years ago and it didn’t take long for some timecode calculators to enter the store. Now there’s a whole website devoted to iOS filmmaking tools. A timecode calculator is still one of the most useful things on an iPhone and the makers of Panoptik Timecode have offered a a few free codes for our readers to get a copy of their good ole timcode calculator app.

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Monday, April 30, 2012

Random notes from my first “real world” Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 edit

The new Premiere continues to impress.

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I was fortunate to get my hands on an early release of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and an edit that came up last week seemed like the perfect place to test it out. It wasn’t an overly complex edit, a 3 minute piece shot on RED with interviews and b-roll. I cut the offline and it will then go to an After Effects artist for some fancy graphics and Baselight for color grading. As I was taking notes on the new version of Premiere Pro for an upcoming review I thought it might be interesting to just publish those notes in a blog post about Premiere Pro CS6. Here they are.

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

NAB 2012: SpectraCal

This may be one of the most affordable monitor color calibration systems.

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One little booth I happened to come by as I walked the NAB show floor was SpectraCal. A bright red screen with a little device attached to it was all that I needed to stop by and check it out. SpectraCal was showing their solutions for measuring and calibrating accurate color on your client and grading monitors. Why do you need an accurate monitor? Are you using DaVinci Resolve?

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

NAB 2012: Apple and Final Cut Pro X

Apple has meeting offsite but their products had a huge presence on the show floor.

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Apple didn’t have a booth at the 2012 NAB show, and no one expected them to. Even though no one was surprised they weren’t there a lot of folks commented that they thought it would’ve been more appropriate than ever given that Apple now has a shipping version of Final Cut Pro X. But Apple’s presence was felt all over the show floor with tons of Apple products on display. They were even having on the record meetings off the show floor and I was lucky enough to be invited to one of them.

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Studio Daily posted the review last week after pounding the thing on a number of edits

Last week Studio Daily published my Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 review. It’s a longie but a goodie as I tried to go into detail about what I really like and what I kinda don’t like about this brand new Premiere Pro. I had been pounding it hard on several projects before writing the review. I have had a few questions about exactly what kind of jobs I’ve been working on with it.

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