About Mitch

About Mitch2017-08-10T01:43:44-04:00

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Mitch Jacobson

Mitch is a creative producer/director, broadcast editor and a multi-camera expert with 30 years experience in entertainment production. He has edited documentaries (Pavarotti and The Newport Jazz Festival), comedy (Guy Code, Wild ‘N Out), sizzles reels (Tommy Hilfiger, P Diddy, Pepsi), talk shows (The Chew, Rachael Ray and The Wendy Williams Show) & concert films (Paul McCartney, Aerosmith, Kid Rock). Mitch has directed and shot 100’s of live special events for Planet Hollywood, Universal Studios, Hard Rock Cafe and Disney.

Mitch is the owner of Category Five Studios in New York City. He also works on loan-out for broadcast and cable networks (MTV, Discovery, ABC, History) and the biggest brands in fashion, music, sports and entertainment.

He has been a keynote speaker at the NAB- National Association of Broadcasting conference, an editing instructor for The Motion Picture Editors Guild and a contract trainer for NewTek’s TriCaster and the presenter of “Stream Camp” a national touring live stream multicamera workshop. He is also the hosts the special webcast “Cutting It Close” a technolgy talk show.

His book, Mastering Multicamera Techniques: From Pre-production to Editing and Deliverables (Focal Press) has been published in English, Portuguese and Russian. It is also available as a Kindle e-book on Amazon.com

Mitch Jacobson’s Blog:

Cutting it Close

How it Works-Multicam in Final Cut Pro X

Multicam in Final Cut Pro X Here is a great article from Jan Ozer who takes Apple's FCPx for a multicam test-drive using footage from my book Mastering Multicamera Techniques: Let’s start with the highlights. [...]

By |February 4th, 2012|Categories: Editing, Mastering Multicam, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on How it Works-Multicam in Final Cut Pro X

Editor’s Retreat 2012

Eighty of the best film and tv editors made their way to Austin, Texas this week for The Editor's Retreat presented by Future Media Concepts. The history of the conference started in 1996 as the [...]

By |February 1st, 2012|Categories: Mastering Multicam, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Editor’s Retreat 2012

Livestream Adds Plugin for TriCaster

Livestream.com just released a brand new, fully integrated plugin for the NewTek Tricaster. This will make things so much easier for encoding and setting up a livestream.com channel. The new plug-in has the same great [...]

By |February 1st, 2012|Categories: Live Streaming, Mastering Multicam, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Livestream Adds Plugin for TriCaster

FCPx adds Multicam and much more

A new update for FCPx was released today that addresses a slew of requested features  including multicam! The NEW MULTICAM is boasting 64 active camera angles driven by the 64-bit engine. A big up for metadata control [...]

By |January 31st, 2012|Categories: Mastering Multicam, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on FCPx adds Multicam and much more

Pitbull’s World of Betters- Miami (livestream-highlights)

Follow Pitbull as he inspires the youth of Miami by creating a space for them to come and express their creativity. Check out the live stream highlights and my personal pictures: http://youtu.be/G8v-P7ZiLwA [wooslider slider_type="attachments" [...]

By |January 27th, 2012|Categories: Live Streaming|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Pitbull’s World of Betters- Miami (livestream-highlights)

Apple’s universal remote concept hints at future television set

Apple has shown interest in building a new, simplified remote control that would automatically control a variety of devices while reducing setup and frustration for the user. The concept was revealed this week in a [...]

By |January 26th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Apple’s universal remote concept hints at future television set
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