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 [...]
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 [...]
It was a real honor to get a call from Adobe's Evangelist Dave Helmly asking to adopt my book Mastering Multicamera Techniques (Focal Press) for the Adobe World Wide Field Team. Of course I said yes...they bought 50 copies! The team uses the book and [...]
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 new YouTube Live Channel for The Warner Sound. http://youtu.be/cF-NDs6xaoY [...]
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, [...]
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 Sets, Jenna Rappolt-Noyes- Tiffen. Join the conversation: #ASKNAB watch here: [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 then, check out my book Mastering Multicamera Techniques: Work backwards [...]
