Studio/monthly—now an online-only publication—speaks directly to an independent or in-house video pro’s biggest concerns—how to get the most out of the tools you use every day. Whether you are part of a large production team or work on your own, our product reviews, tutorials, facility snapshots and technology analysis help you create passionately, invest wisely and, above all, stay competitive as technology races ahead.

	Editor-in-Chief, Studio/monthly Beth Marchant Beth is the founding editor-in-chief of Studio/monthly and co-editor of StudioDaily and has more than 20 years of staff editorial experience at trade and consumer publications. She has been covering the digital video, animation and new media markets since 1996, when she joined Multimedia Producer as a senior editor. In 2000, she became editor-in-chief of the newly merged AV Video Multimedia Producer. Beth has spoken on a range of digital content creation topics at the National Association of Broadcasters convention and at L.A.’s Film Finance Forum. In addition to her award-winning coverage of digital technology, her articles and profiles about technology and culture have been syndicated by the Gannett News Service and have appeared in Yankee and Harvard Magazine. She also reviews consumer technology for the site Techlicious. A graduate of Hamilton College and London’s British and European Studies Group, she holds an M.A. in English literature and film theory and is a past recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize.
	Contributors Scott Simmons Scott Simmons, creator of the popular Editblog, is a Final Cut Pro and Avid editor at Filmworkers in Nashville, Tenn. He is a regular contributor to the StudioDaily Blog and reviews software for Studio/monthly. He was born in rural West Tennessee and didn't really realize that movies and television programming had to be made by actual people until he went to college. After getting degrees in both Television Production and Graphic Design (though not at the same time) he was in one of the early graduating classes at the Watkins Film School in Nashville. 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. The years of freelancing in a market like Nashville gave him the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects from music videos and live concerts to commercials and television programs, industrial and corporate pieces to documentaries and the occasional narrative film. He joined Filmworkers in 2007. He has worked on projects from artists including Kenny Rogers, Kenny Chesney, Ronnie Milsap, Rodney Atkins, Mercy Me and Rhonda Vincent to name a few. Television networks include programming for CMT, Nickelodeon, Great American Country, Speed, HGTV, Gospel Music Channel and ABC Sports. Some day he hopes to edit on a beach with a touch screen device, a wireless hard drive and a Red Stripe. David English David has written more than a thousand articles for publications such as Attaché, AV Video Multimedia Producer, Business 2.0, CNET, Computer Shopper, Film & Video, Fortune, Hemispheres, Inc. Magazine, Maximum PC, Mobile PC, Omni, PC Magazine, PC World, Sky and ZDNet. He is the recipient of a national Editorial Excellence Award from the American Society of Business Press Editors for "Best Technical Article: Over 80,000 Circulation," as well as a Cahners Editorial Merit Award for "Best Subject-Related Series of Articles." David has served on the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Conference Advisory Board and appeared on industry-related panels, television broadcasts and radio programs. Before embarking on his career in technology journalism, he completed a master’s degree and most of the requirements for a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from New York University. Michael Grotticelli Michael Grotticelli is a senior writer/editor who regularly writes about the professional video production technology and the industry at large. He also is editor/publisher of the Goodman’s Guide series of user-friendly camera manuals. Debra Kaufman Debra has been an entertainment industry journalist for 20 years. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Wired. Her writing on production and technology also appears regularly in The Hollywood Reporter and American Cinematographer. She has directed a  documentary about literacy in Tibet and is the editor of Mobilizedtv.com, a site she created to cover emerging content and technology for mobile devices. David Leathers David is a musician, filmmaker, technologist and writer. After working in New York as a recording and touring musician and member of the rock group, Mink Deville, he moved to Los Angeles where he acquired extensive training in audio and video engineering, film, and video production. Peter Plantec Peter is a pioneer digital-media journalist. He wrote the first digital column for Animation magazine where he originated and hosted the Annual Golden Pixie Awards. He has been a respected and often controversial columnist with AV Video Multimedia Magazine for many years and a product reviewer for several magazines such as Computer Graphics World, 3D Artist magazine and many others. His latest book, Virtual Humans, is the last word on animated virtual human design.