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

World Wars Premieres tonight on History

Happy Memorial Day!! If you like war documentaries, then you will love World Wars premiering tonight on History channel at 9pm. It's a three part - six hour mini series and is one of the [...]

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Go “GloCal” with Live Streaming! NAB2014 at Post Production World

As many of you know, I am huge fan of live streaming and spend most of my time away from editing cutting live shows and teaching live stream workshops. At NAB Post Production World this [...]

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Color Me, Pepper! PT.1 Speedgrade at Post Production World NAB2014

For the weekend leading up to the show floor opening on Monday it's all about tech training sessions at NAB. Year after year the Post Production World Conference has been the standout training event. The [...]

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Training the Trainer: Newtek Tricaster 8000

I'm heading down to San Antonio today to be a part of NewTek's first "Train the Trainer" dream team for the Tricaster 8000. I'm especially looking forward to learning any undocumented features and new workflows [...]

By |May 13th, 2013|Categories: Live Streaming, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Training the Trainer: Newtek Tricaster 8000
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