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 [...]
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 [...]
Switching and editing live television programs is the most exciting part of the TV business for me. Lately, I've noticed a lot more calls for live editing-while-recording gigs, possibly due to the technology becoming more affordable and easier to use. For this years' Academy Awards [...]
New technology helps robotic cameras act like real camera operators and follow action with a human feel...Some day, we will be able to have computerized cameras and editing software completely produce a quality program...especially in this "good enough" era of professional TV production. From Science 2.0: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/this_robot_learns_your_every_basketball_move-152044 [...]
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 celebrities and famous entertainers that film and TV editors work [...]
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, Colorist Alexis Van Hurkman, AutoDesk's Smoke on Mac, Avid, NVIDIA, [...]
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 Mitch Jacobson” starting tomorrow. This three-day livestream series will include [...]
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 very complex subject that is of supreme interest, above all, [...]
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 show directed by JoJo Pennebaker cut on FCP 7 in [...]
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 stop all the cameras in sync. Here is one cool [...]
