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Author Archives: Scott Simmons
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Useful Tool Updated: Post Haste 2.0
Way back in 2009 I posted about a useful tool called Post Haste. It was a little app designed by editor Paul Conigliaro that addressed his need to keep his post-production projects organized. That app has now been reborn and …
Useful Tools for Editors: e-Watcher
Way back in 2007 I speculated on what I thought would be a cool feature in Final Cut Pro (via a Software from the Future post): the ability to designate a folder as a Watch Folder. The idea was that …
The SuperMeet that Never Was Will Happen During IBC
Remember all the brouhaha that erupted just a week or so before the NAB 2011 FCPUG SuperMeet when Apple took over the event to preview Final Cut Pro X, thereby kicking out all the other presenters who had planned their own …
Useful Tools for Editors: DropCopy
I was happily installing the Mac OS 10.7 Lion update on my Mac Pro at home (Avid recently blessed Media Composer to run on 10.7) only to become somewhat less happy when I realized AirDrop, one of the features I …
Some FCPX Road Blocks and More
We’ve all been following the Final Cut Pro X saga since its release back in June. And we’ve all read about those many big things that FCPX seems to be missing … like XML in and out, third-party hardware support …
The $2 FCPX Manual We All Should Have
When it comes to training for Final Cut Pro X, you can find material that runs from a few minutes for free up to hours of material for hundreds of dollars. But when it comes to the user manual for …
Sony Video Cassette Demo, Circa 1971
In the spirit of the 1980 James L. Brooks TV Show Take On Network Censorship video posted here yesterday comes another vintage piece of video for all the post-production geeks out there. It’s a Sony U-matic demo from 1971, the …
Useful Tools for FCPX Editors: Event Manager X
One of the stranger things that Final Cut Pro X does during an edit is leave all your imported media online, all the time. Unlike most other NLEs out there FCPX keeps media (as in Events) separate from the editing …
Fed Up with FCPX? Join International FCPX Refund Request Day
Okay, it’s not really an official day as declared by whatever power out there that declares official days but it is one frustrated editor’s attempt to make a statement about his dissatisfaction with Final Cut Pro X. Mike J. Nichols …
Novacut: An Open-Source Video Editor
I don’t want to make a habit of throwing a bunch of Kickstarter projects on the blog (unless they are cool) but Novacut is just too interesting, from a video editor’s perspective, to ignore. If all goes well the Novacut …