It was honor to direct the John Hopkins School of Advanced Studies' livestream event "A Special Relationship in Transition: US-China Power Dynamics in the Emerging 21st Century" for Planet X in Brooklyn recently. It was a nice tech mashup of an animated UnReal Engine [...]
If you are a tech lover like me and haven’t tuned in to Alex Lindsay’s Office Hours daily webinar, what are you waiting for? I’ve been enjoying and learning things like how to build a virtual computer on AWS, UnReal Engine and integrating Zoom [...]
By: Mitch Jacobson, Category Five Studios | NYC The geek in me feels like a groupie today except I'm not backstage at a rock concert. I'm at the historic DuArt Film Lab Building in New York City and the “rockstar” I’m here to meet is [...]
Dan Zimmerman, A.C.E., was born and raised in California. You could say editing is in his blood. He is the son of legendary editor Don Zimmerman, and his twin brother Dean, and younger brother David are both editors. The Zimmermans cross the fourth dimension as his sisters Dana and Debbie [...]
I had the privilege of on-line editing the new PBS concert special Andrea Bocelli: Cinema for the Great Performances team in NYC this month. My favorite segment features Andrea Bocelli singing a virtual duet with Ariana Grande E più ti penso from Once Upon a Time in America. The [...]
Pietro Scalia has worked closely with several of the worlds best directors including Bernardo Bertolucci, Oliver Stone and Ridley Scott. He has won an Oscar for JFK, Most recently he completed The Martian, starring Matt Damon and sat down with me for a nice talk about editing films. Jacobson: Hi, Pietro. I [...]
Mitch Jacobson: This film is the greatest action movie of the summer, a real feel good film. You must be really proud. Eddie Hamilton: I am enormously proud of the film and how hard we worked on it. It was a very intense 11 [...]
Hi, Everyone. I'll be at AbleCine tomorrow (Tuesday June 8th) to show-and-tell about a very cool workflow I have been using on a lot of award shows lately: Edit-While-Recording: Live Multicam in Premiere Pro. I'll present a demo with 8 cameras feeding a MacPro with Softron's [...]
Here's to fresh air, clean water and great family & friends! I hope your Earth Day was over the Moon! I took this picture today from the Staten Island Ferry looking at the new Manhattan Skyline...ain't she a beaut!!!
DaVinci Resolve has added multicamera editing along with a whole slew of editing updates to version 12. The multicam mode acts like you would expect it to with very familiar steps for syncing angles and cutting in the timeline. From the Blackmagic website: Multi-cam editing in [...]
