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

CineMontage: CUT/PRINT- Ray Zone on Mastering Multicamera Techniques

This review by Ray Zone appears in the current issue of CineMontage, The Editor's Guild Magazine: (March 2012- by Ray Zone) This is a monster of a book, certainly the last word on this large and [...]

Travel Tip: The Secret Double Life of Headphone Cases

I never like to travel without a pair of Bose Noise Canceling Headphones for obvious reasons...the tip is that the empty headphone case makes an excellent back support on airplanes and trains. Thanks to Craig [...]

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Seeking: Editing “artist” with “sizzle” …

...or What's an Editor to do? (More than ever)!  When young filmmaker/students ask me what I think they should learn about filmmaking, I say: "Learn everything because that is what you will have to do--EVERYTHING"!...This [...]

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Tax Preparation for Film Crews

Tax Preparation for Film Crews is a timely article brought to us courtesy Gotham Sound & Communications' The Gotham Gazette. (Revised January 2012) by Anne K. Johnson, Tax & Production Accountant The most important tax change [...]

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Meet Elroy! Very Cool Remote Trucks from Aura Sonic

I met Steve Remote on-location while shooting a livestream gig with Alisha Keys in November. He rolled in with a very jamming flypack system to mix the show. The first thing I noticed was the [...]

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