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

Bxx: A New Multicamera Storytelling Format for Film

Talk about convergence! This is the intersection of technology and art: Big Brother house meets thriller meets real time drama. A new multicamera storytelling format has been developed with a format called Bxx. Viewers can [...]

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Rick Ross Press Conference – Live Stream -Powered by Telestream’s WireCast®

TODAY: Wednesday, May 2nd at 1pm EST Friends-  I am providing livestream production services for a special press conference featuring Rick Ross live from New York City - It is powered by Telestream's Wirecast on the [...]

Wednesday on “Cutting it Close- Live! from NAB with Mitch Jacobson

Today's live show at 3:30PM PST (6:30 PM EST) is our last program from NAB. Thanks to everyone who helped make this an incredible experience!... Today's guests include: Creative Cow Tech Guru Bob Zelin, Bryce Button-AJA, [...]

Tuesday on Cutting it Close- Live! from NAB with Mitch Jacobson

Today's live show  at 3:30PM PST (6:30 PM EST) guests include: Al Caudullo- 3D editing with Edius, Walter Biscardi-editor of Good Eats, Bruce Sharpe-Singulars Software/PluralEyes, Phillip Nelson- NewTek Tricaster, Jose Burgos- All Mobile Video and Virtual [...]

Watch us LIVE from NAB today at 3:30 PM PST

Watch us live today from NAB shows: "Cutting it Close- Live! from NAB with Mitch Jacobson" Guests include Gary Adcock, Ted Scilowitz, Ned Soltz, Phillip Hodgetts, Oliver Peters, Iva Radivojevic & Nick Harauz watch here: http://new.livestream.com/teradek starting [...]

By |April 16th, 2012|Categories: Editing, News, Technology|Comments Off on Watch us LIVE from NAB today at 3:30 PM PST

Cutting it Close- Live! from NAB 2012 with Mitch Jacobson

Hello from Vegas, everyone! I am happy to announce that I will be hosting my blog live from NAB again this year with my special live streaming series “Cutting it Close- Live from NAB! with [...]

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