Scott Simmons
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Scott Simmons
@editblog.bsky.social
Editor
@davidpierce.xyz a real bummer you guys put the weekly Installer behind the pay wall now.
May 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hey USA 🇺🇸 freelancers, Q1 2025 tax estimates are due today. You know … on 2024 tax day. It’s big day 💸💸💸
April 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@martintlaskal.bsky.social congrats on the Baselight for Mac release! I know that one has been a long time coming. At least I think so. I remember seeing Baselight running on a Mac laptop years ago at NAB.
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This Saturday, Feb 22nd is the 2nd annual Nashville Filmmakers Guild Community Flea Market. Come out and browse or buy or sell some of your old filmmaking stuff! 🎥📹🎞️

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NFG Filmmakers Flea Market 2025
Check out NFG Filmmakers Flea Market 2025 by Nashville Filmmakers Guild!
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February 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So is the Getty / Shutterstock merger really an exciting thing? Or is it gonna make prices go up? Or is that a cynical view?
January 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you've got a long drive or flight today then give the latest Alan Smithee podcast a listen. Or tune your family out for an hour! Katie, Michael and I wrap up the year & look at the next. And get into an argument about "creators."

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Art of the Frame Podcast: The Alan Smithee Round Table – Getting Ready for 2025 by Art of the Frame - ProVideo Coalition
In their year-end roundup for the Alan Smithee podcast, hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen, and Michael Kammes discuss the media and entertainment industry’s evolving landscape as 2024 draws to a close...
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December 24, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Hello #postchat friends ... I'm working on a new The Angry Editor blog post, this time about the massive time suck it can be to search stock and template sites for the perfect graphics template. It's the new music search black hole.

What say you? Any thoughts or stories? Am I totally wrong here?
December 18, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I tried the online cancel of the increasingly expensive YouTube TV and got offered $10 off a month for 6 months. So it worked.
December 15, 2024 at 9:00 PM
I'm at the point where I now believe that the biggest editor time suck is going through the stock sites looking for a graphic element. It used to be stock music but I think graphics have replaced music. #postchat

Search: simple title w/ background
Results: 784,345,156 items and templates returned
December 5, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Dearest @bsky.app friends and users. You do no have to repost, resky, retweet every goddamn thing you come across. Please don't make this app an endless stream of repost, resky, retweets ... I know it's easy to do and you want others read stuff. But at least provide commentary. Or don't do it.
December 5, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Come on BlueSky #postchat #postsky folks...surely you've got some suggestions for unique Christmas 🎄 gifts for editors. So for both Twitter and Threads is winning as far as suggestions go!
November 26, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Timeline is a great book and a must read for those interested in the tools we use.
Is Pixelmator the new KeyGrip aka Final Cut? @gruber.foo wonders out loud -> tinyurl.com/mrxrrvdt

My full book on FCP -> tinyurl.com/yhbfvddk
November 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
@jaredmartin.bsky.social hey I really enjoyed Shiny Happy People. I worked on the Willis Family show so when I saw them pop up in there… 😳
November 23, 2024 at 4:19 AM
A new Alan Smithee Roundtable is out where Katie, @michaelkammes.bsky.social and myself share our top 3 media creation tech things we're most THANKFUL FOR that have impacted our lives & careers. I've embedded some other's as well in the post.

What's yours?

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Art of the Frame Podcast: The Alan Smithee Round Table - Our Top 3 Tech Things by Art of the Frame - ProVideo Coalition
In this edition of the Alan Smithee podcast, hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen and Michael Kammes discuss technological advancements that have significantly impacted their careers over the past two de...
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November 20, 2024 at 9:06 PM
t's about time for my annual Christmas Gift Ideas for the Editor... and after 14 years, I've got nothin'.

Do you dear editor blieskyers have any good Christmas Gift ideas for the editor?Sure an M4 Mac mini is an easy one but what's something cool & unique in your edit suite? Watcha want for Xmas?🎄
November 20, 2024 at 1:41 AM
So about this BlueSky #postchat thing.. there is a glimmer of hope that we can move some of the cherished post community here. Many folks are coming over. Please do be offended if I unfollow you if all you do it repost/resky/retweet political and election stuff. Enough of that elsewhere
November 19, 2024 at 4:14 PM
So Michael, Katie and and I are about to sit down this morning to record an epic new episode of Alan Smithee podcast. Our three favorite industry techs from the last decade or so is the topic.

What’s yours?
November 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Ok BlueSky… here’s a Resolve question for you on something I’ve never tried… is there no way to use a pin tool or something similar to draw a mat on a clip to just cut a hole in it without using Fusion? That seems pretty basic and I had always assumed it was there.
November 15, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Well well hello again BlueSky. We tried to move the Twitter #postchat community over here a couple years ago maybe. Wasn’t much of an uptake. Maybe this time will be different because Elon. 🤷‍♂️
November 15, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Do you ever need to sync clips in your video editing app? Of course you do. Here’s a sync shootout with the third party tools. (They can do it better than your NLE)

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October 5, 2023 at 10:48 PM
Here’s a picture of a dog lying flat in mulch on a 100 degree day because he can.
August 25, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Monday morning on Blue Sky. How’s it going out there with the hurricane CA folks?
August 21, 2023 at 11:47 AM