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
Project Beyond: 16 HD Cams, 360-degree, 3D video-capture device for Samsung’s Gear VR headset
Here is the future of virtual reality filmmaking: The new capture device from Samsung has 16 HD cameras with 360º 3D viewing. So cool! Check out this article from PC Magazine by Damon Poeter and [...]
New Thunderbolt Cameras for Multi-Cam
Ximea cameras featuring Thunderbolt interface Vision 2014 in Stuttgart, held from 4 to 6 November, saw the first cameras displayed with a Thunderbolt interface. Thunderbolt is a joint development by Apple and Intel which is [...]
Happy Halloween from the Pumpkin Patch!!
Here is a Flashback Friday pic taken about 10 years ago of my darling twin nieces Hannah and Madison when they were just little pumpkins. Have a great holiday everyone and don't forget to see [...]
Tear the Roof Off The Sucker!
George Clinton, of Parliament Funkadelic fame, is certainly the man about town these days. He's got a new book out and he's making the rounds with a re-mixed version of his 20-year-old HBO special Cosmic [...]
“Dress British, act Yiddish” – Financial Advice from Gene Simmons
I directed this financial segment with Gene Simmons for Yahoo! Studios as part of my training with Yahoo! Senior Director/TD Erin Bigelow. Gene was direct, pompous, funny and truly contraversial….everything you would expect from the demon [...]
Multicamera Madness at CCW | NYC
Mark your calendars for my upcoming session at CCW Content & Comunication World produced by NAB and Future Media Concepts! We will take a look into the latest trends in multi-camera, live-to-post workflows and demonstrate how to work [...]
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