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

My latest cut: Kid Rock: Live at Graceland on PBS

Kid Rock, Getty Images Kid Rock: Live at Graceland premiered Friday on PBS and Hulu Plus nationwide. It's the third episode I edited for Live from the Artist Den. This was a 15-song set, eight camera [...]

The Great Gibson Guitar Raid

Filmmaker and Facebook friend Anthony L. Fisher, produced this great piece about an unusual case against Gibson Guitars...Check it out: http://youtu.be/V5IYGroW1nA About 6 minutes. Written, produced, and narrated by Anthony L. Fisher; shot by [...]

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Overcome New Wireless Mic Hurdles

TVBDs: Understanding How They'll Operate and How to Best Avoid Interference Hosted by Henry Cohen Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 10:00am at Gotham RSVP to gotrsvp+rf@gmail.com Refreshments will be served. The next big hurdle for wireless [...]

By |February 20th, 2012|Categories: Editing, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Overcome New Wireless Mic Hurdles

Rip Curl’s 30 Camera GoPro Array

I love the GoPro multicamera arrays that people are using. I just shot a music video with a 10 camera array.  Now that GoPro has a wifi connection it should be easier to start and [...]

By |February 14th, 2012|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Rip Curl’s 30 Camera GoPro Array

My Damn Channel and Kelly Guenther Win Mastering Multicamera Techniques Book at Recent Workshops

I would like to introduce a few new friends who won my book at recent multi-camera live streaming workshops I presented at B&H Superstore's The Studio in NYC and at Future Media Concepts' Editor's Retreat [...]

By |February 13th, 2012|Categories: Editing, Mastering Multicam, News, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on My Damn Channel and Kelly Guenther Win Mastering Multicamera Techniques Book at Recent Workshops

Top MultiCam Shooting Considerations

Here is a short list of things to consider when shooting with multiple cameras. There are many more things to know, in fact there is a whole book about it 🙂 Check out the list [...]

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