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

NAB2013: Blackmagic Design Busts Open NLE Editing with Resolve 10

The NAB show floor opened today and approximately 90,000 attendees clammored to discover the new toys, technologies and services offered by the world's best television related companies. I scouted for editing and live streaming goodies [...]

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NAB2013: The Awesome Amalgam- Premiere Pro

Today is the second day of NAB 2013 and I am reporting from Future Media Concepts' Postproduction World Conference in the North hall where I have spent the last two days in class for the [...]

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MULTICAMp.tv and Adobe Award CS6 Production Premium Suites

Congratulations to Edward Pickart of Motion Post TV Chicago and Paul Galando, New York University, NYC for winning the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium suite of software. Thank you both for being a part [...]

Please Sign The ACE/MPEG Petition for Editors’ Recognition

It will only take a blink of an eye so please help give film and tv editors the recognition they deserve and click now: Sign The Petition for Editors' Recognition Editors Deserve Recognition! Unlike the [...]

Adobe Adopts Multicam Book for World-Wide Field Team

It was a real honor to get a call from Adobe's Evangelist Dave Helmly asking to adopt my book Mastering Multicamera Techniques (Focal Press) for the Adobe World Wide Field Team. Of course I said [...]

By |June 21st, 2012|Categories: Editing, Mastering Multicam, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Adobe Adopts Multicam Book for World-Wide Field Team
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