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Shane Ross
Los Angeles, California USA
Shane
Ross is a broadcast television editor in Hollywood. Well, OK, Los
Angeles. He only had one job that was actually in Hollywood. He is a
documentary and narrative editor and has edited shows for the History
Channel, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and Nickelodeon…plus a
handful of short films, spec commercials and demo reels.
He was born in Missoula, Montana, the only son of a Feminist and an Erotic Artist. Inspired by the Star Warsfilms, he started out his illustrious career when he made his first
film at the tender age of 10, using a super 8 camera and his stuffed
animals…and cardboard space ships and special effects consisting of
lasers and explosions scratched onto the film.
Early in
his "film" career he worked at countless video stores, and a small
video production company where he transferred people's super 8 mm and
16mm films to video. He eventually ended up at Montana State University
in the Media and Theatre Arts program where he realized that he didn't
want to direct, but rather enjoyed shooting and editing. While there he
worked as an Associate Producer at Native Voices Public Television, a program devoted to producing the works of Native American filmmakers. During that time he also managed the Video Rodeoand school movie theatre. His senior year the school acquired an Avid
editing system and he had the privilege of being the first student to
edit his senior film with it.
Upon graduation, he
moved to Phoenix, Arizona, with a girl he hardly knew, but planned to
marry. While she attended ASU he worked at…yet ANOTHER video store,
all the while littering the town with resumes in hopes of landing
production work. Then one company, tired of receiving his resume, hired
him as a Production Assistant on a couple local commercials. This
lead…essentially nowhere. He ended up working as a technical support
specialist at Apple, providing phone tech support during the "Performa
years."
Meanwhile, he married the girl, with whom he had become better acquainted.
After a year at Apple, during which he had a brief stint as an extra on
TIN CUP, he knew he wasn’t going to get anywhere in the industry
without a demo reel so he approached the production company that hired
him and pleaded to use their Avid. The producer said "Oh, you know how
to use an Avid? There is a company making a movie out here who is
looking for an apprentice editor and they need someone familiar with
the Avid."
The interviewer indicated that he was waiting to be impressed. As if
on cue the director’s assistant bursts into his office saying that her
computer needed to be taken in for service. It was an Apple Powerbook.
After 5 minutes Shane fixed her computer and was promptly hired. Thus
began his editing career…Apprentice Edtior on U-TURN (uncredited…sigh)
where he rubbed elbows with Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte,
Jaoquin Phoenix, Billy Bob Thornton, Claire Danes…and some unknown
actress named Jennifer Lopez.
Desperate to make editing his career, he spoke to friends in the
industry and they said, "California is the place you ought to be, so he
loaded up the truck and he moved to Beverly. Hills that is. Swimming
pools…movie stars." OK…Van Nuys actually, so porn stars.
He has since worked on WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK, AMERICAS FUNNIEST HOME
VIDEOS, JUDGE JUDY, EVEN STEVENS, THAT’S SO RAVEN and countless History
Channel and Discovery Channel shows.
Shane and his wife currently reside in Van Nuys with their three daughters who are budding filmmakers in their own right.
In this in-depth series of 9 video tutorials spanning over 90 minutes, CreativeCOW.net leader Shane Ross will show you time-saving techniques for project and media management that the manual left out. For every version of Final Cut Pro.
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the worlds most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, hes compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shanes Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. Here in Part 3, he covers QuickTime issues, timecode management, P2 tips and much more, including one of the most frequently questions of all: how to open new projects in older versions of FCP.
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world's most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he's compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane's Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. In part 2 he covers HDV monitoring, editing web codecs, working with Photoshop files in FCP, and much more.
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world's most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he's compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane's Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. In part 1 he covers lossless QuickTimes, digitizing across timecode breaks, some of his favorite freeware add-ons, and more.
Apple Final Cut Pro has a lot of great filters, and Creative Cow leader Shane Ross found a number of them that he thought would look great as transitions. It turns out that really do! In this video tutorial, he shows you just how easily you too can build truly unique transitions with filters.
P2 workflows are among the very hottest topics at the Cow, and with extensive experience with P2 in broadcast editing, leader Shane Ross is one of the industry experts in the new features to support P2 in Final Cut Pro 6. In this video tutorial, Shane covers new techniques for bringing in captured footage, and as always, tips for project organization and media management for the best results with the least effort.
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross wasn't convinced that the Matrox MXO could really provide the CRT-accurate monitoring through an Apple Cinema Display he demands for his HD broadcast workflows. After working with it for nearly a year, through multiple upgrades and in a variety of configurations, he tells you here why he's convinced now.
You know you want to install OS X Leopard as soon as you can. For your production machine, though, you probably also know that you should wait. You also know that you're probably going to do it anyway. Whether you do it at the right or wrong time, there's a right way to do it. Creative COW Leader Shane Ross tells you how.
In this reprint from Creative COW Magazine, Creative Cow leader and broadcast editor Shane Ross uses his work for The History Channel to illustrate end-to-end workflow using P2 media and the Panasonic HVX200: from a multi-camera shoot in the middle of blazing gunfire, all the way to your living room.
Creative Cow leader Shane Ross saved you a trip to Amsterdam -- further for some Cows than others, but pretty far for most. As always, you can count on Shane to tell you exactly what he thinks about what he saw: AJA, Sony XDCAM EX, Edit Share, and That Other Camera.
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross shares the great news: both performance and protection with CalDigit's new HDPro RAID! Supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6, the HDPro even works with your laptop. It's the answer to Shane's prayers. He thinks it might be the answer to yours too.
In this Final Cut Pro video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses taking 60p footage shot with DVCPRO HD and slowing it down to 23.98 so that it's slow motion. Please note that this only works if you are working in a 23.98 or 29.97 timeline.
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses creating movement on stills in Final Cut Pro. Many people call this the Ken Burns effect, but Shane wants to point out that this effect is been used long before Ken Burns made it so popular. In fact, Shane would like to someday have it called the 'Shane Ross Effect.'
In this video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross gives users a quick tutorial on how to import footage from a Panasonic P2 card into Apple Final Cut Pro.
Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro by Shane Ross 
