Mitch Jacobson

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Mitch Jacobson
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Born1963 (age 61–62)
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation(s)Producer/director
Video editor
Educator
Years active1984–present
Website categoryfivestudios.com

Mitch Jacobson (born 1963) is an American producer/director, video editor and educator specializing in multi-camera production.

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Early life and education

Jacobson attended the film program at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He then worked at a public access television station in Tampa, and as a freelance director/cameraman for a decade. [1]

Career

Multi-camera editing

Jacobson is an editor who has cut feature-length concert films and short-form publicity programs for numerous musicians including the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Paul McCartney and U2. [2] [3] He has produced and directed NFL and MLB programming for Fox Sports Channel, and edited comedy, music and awards shows for MTV. [3] [4] Paul McCartney Live In St. Petersburg, which he edited, was nominated for a 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, [4] and it was featured on the DVD Paul McCartney Live in Red Square, which won the MIPCOM Award for best music DVD of the Year. [5] Paul McCartney: The Space Within Us is the largest multi-camera show Jacobson has edited, with 26 unique camera angles. [1] He has also edited for numerous television shows, including Great Performances on PBS from 2008 to 2010, [1] the Montel Williams Show from 2007 to 2008, [6] America's Got Talent season 7 on NBC in 2012, [7] Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out on MTV2 in 2013, and The Wendy Williams Show since 2011. [8]

He is the owner of Category Five Studios, a creative editing and color boutique in New York City, [2] [9] and a member of the Motion Pictures Editors Guild. [10]

Teaching

Jacobson is an Apple Certified Pro and trainer for the NewTek TriCaster multi-camera production system. He specializes in Avid, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and NewTek TriCaster systems. [3] [4] [11] He regularly presents multi-camera live stream, editing, directing and encoding workshops called StreamCamp across the US, for industry trade groups and conferences. [3] [7] [9] In 2011, he began hosting Cutting It Close, a live web talk show for editors. [9]

Jacobson's textbook Mastering MultiCamera Techniques was published by Focal Press in 2010. Intended for producers, directors and editors, it has information on multi-camera productions from a 2-camera interview to a 26-camera concert, and includes a DVD tutorial with multiple angle concert footage from Paul McCartney and Elton John. [6] [10] [12] The book's foreword was written by Academy Award-winning editor Thomas A. Ohanian, formerly of Avid Technology. [10] [13]

Filmography

Television

Concert films

Bibliography

Books

Articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rob Feld, “Concertmaster,” Editors Guild Magazine, volume 30, number 3, May–June 2009.
  2. 1 2 Mitch Jacobson, “Multicam Madness!” Creative COW, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 4 “Mitch Jacobson Deploys Telestream Pipeline for Quick Turnaround Multi-cam Edit While Ingest,” Telestream. Accessed December 26, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 “SVG Summit,” Archived 2014-12-27 at the Wayback Machine sportsvideo.org. Accessed December 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ “2005 MIPCOM DVD Awards Winners Announced,” [ usurped ] International Digital Media Alliance, 2005.
  6. 1 2 Scott Simmons, “Master Multicamera Techniques is a must have book for editors,” Pro Video Coalition, October 8, 2010.
  7. 1 2 Amy Cassell, “Digital Cinematography Program Hosts Multicamp Workshop,” Full Sail Blog, November 8, 2012.
  8. ↑ “Meet the Experts,” Archived 2014-09-02 at the Wayback Machine Tekserve, March 26, 2014.
  9. 1 2 3 “The master becomes the student,” Post Magazine, August 2011, p. 40.
  10. 1 2 3 Ray Zone, “Cut/Print,” CineMontage, March 2012.
  11. ↑ “Improve Your Workflows, Improve Your Skills,” Adobe TV, 2013.
  12. ↑ Jan Ozer, “Multicam Editing in Final Cut Pro,” Archived 2014-12-27 at the Wayback Machine Streaming Learning Center, June 1, 2010.
  13. ↑ Nick T. Spark, “Stepping Out from Behind the Curtain,” Archived 2014-12-27 at the Wayback Machine The Motion Picture Editors Guild Newsletter, Vol. 20, No. 2, March/April 1999.
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