Mitch Jacobson
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
Around The World in 40 Days
2011 culminated in a globetrotting, livestreaming whirlwind as I traveled four continents in 40 days to shoot livestream events for Western Union's World of Betters campaign featuring Alicia Leys, John Legend and Pitbull. Here are [...]
Multi-Cámara Locura: CineVideo Expo, Mexico City
After participating in this year's FMC Editor's Retreat, I was approached by fellow editor and certified Avid Trainer Carlos Alberto Rojano of Artec and the Center of Art and Technology (CAT) in Mexico City, Mexico. [...]
Love Your Thumbdrive
This is a hard disk drive back in 1956... with 5 MB of storage. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first 'SUPER' computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed [...]
Fear No Gear: A Report on the Developments at NAB 2010
by Mitch Jacobson and photos by Mark Forman The buzz was apparent the moment I landed in Las Vegas. People just seemed excited. I was not disappointed either as NAB 2010 turned out to [...]
We’re Cutting It Close!!!
Welcome to my new blog...as with a lot of editors, we chase deadlines AND trim a tight cut, I'm almost always "cutting it close". This blog will be a place for me to post my [...]
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