At Magnet Media, we bring today's top industry professionals
to you to teach you everything you need to know about
today's hottest multimedia software.
We work with instructors who are active professionals
and leaders in their respective industries -- so they
always are on top of the latest developments in their
fields and ready to share their valuable perspective with
you.
From database integration to digital image editing and design for advertisements in Newsweek and Time, he has always balanced a passion for right and left-brain abilities. Daniel formed the web development team at Metagraphics in Palo Alto, California (now artmachine.com) serving clients such as Apple, Netscape, Sun, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett Packard. In 1998, Daniel joined Adobe systems in the role of "Evangelist" lending a hand in product development, marketing, interface design, and customer education for web development software and later video and motion graphics production. Daniel has since left Adobe systems to become a consultant where he remains a frequent speaker at industry events world-wide.
Megan Cunningham, founder of Magnet Media, has worked
as an editor, producer and post-production consultant
for ten years. She has trained many editors to use high-end
graphics and effects systems, and has participated in
Apple’s Motion beta program.
Inside Final Draft 7
Annie Young Frisbie is the writer and co-producer of SPEAK, a feature film that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003; with airings on Showtime and Lifetime in the Fall of 2005. Frisbie has worked in film and television since 1997, with credits that include Doug McGrath's upcoming Have You Heard?, People I Know starring Al Pacino, Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven, Spike Lee's 25th Hour and the television series The Education of Max Bickford.
Frisbie also teaches screenwriting at the college level and has served on the nominating committee for the IFP Market Awards since 2000.
Rob Griffiths is a
Senior Editor for Macworld, as well as the Founder
and “Chief Hintmaster” of macosxhints.com,
the web’s leading collection of OS X-related
tips and tricks. For over five years, the site
has been documenting all the “behind the
scenes” tips that make using OS X (and
its related applications) more enjoyable and
productive. Now part of the Macworld brand, Rob
continues to post new tips and tricks on a daily
basis.
In addition to updating the website, Rob
is responsible for a thrice-weekly hints blog on macworld.com,
as well as a monthly OS X tips and training column. In
addition, Rob's involved in the occasional feature article.
Recent feature stories include “Mac OS X Maintenance,” online “First
Looks” for both Pages and Keynote, a very detailed
online analysis of the Intel-powered Mac mini, and a
Mobile Mac column covering remote access options for
Mac users.
Inside
Mac OS X: Tiger
Todd Howard,
founder of Massachusetts-based media production
/ consulting company Howard Digital Media, has
conducted hundreds of hours of training seminars
and one-on-one instruction on Mac OS X Panther,
Jaguar, Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, as
well as Adobe® PhotoShop® and GoLive®.
He is the author of “Who’s Afraid
of HTML?” and is the producer/editor of
the indie feature The Trouble with
Boys and Girls.
Jim Kanter has been working in computer graphics since 1985 and has been
teaching digital filmmaking since 1994. Jim has won awards for filmmaking
and broadcast journalism, and has served on the faculties of several
universities. He is a popular presenter at trade shows, workshops, user
groups, and Apple events. Jim currently serves as Training Director for
the Digital Film Institute and continues to create content through his
production company, D-Film. His clients
include CNN, Turner Entertainment, Scripps Productions, The Weather Channel,
NASA and the US Armed Forces, along with numerous television stations,
production companies, and independent filmmakers.
Dave Marcus is the co-creator of Magnet Media's award-winning
Digital Media Training Series (DMTS™) and the DVD
subscription series, Zoom In. Dave has produced every
DMTS™ and Zoom In title since Magnet Media's founding
in 2000. He is also the instructor on the best-selling
DMTS™ title, "Inside Panther". Some of
his editing credits with Magnet Media include, "Video
on the Web", "Internet Marketing Strategies",
"John Dowdell: Digital Intermediates", "Chad
Sipkin on Editing" and others.
Outside of Magnet Media, Dave has worked in a number of
positions including two years as Multimedia Director for
NYC event production company Choobahouse, Inc., as well
as the editor for various documentary projects. Dave has
spoken on several occasions in front of the NYC Final
Cut Pro Users Group and has given demonstrations at the
Apple Store Soho and J&R Music World. Mr. Marcus holds
a Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College. You can contact
Dave directly at dave@davemarcus.us.
Alex Meillier is an independent producer/director of commercials,
music videos, narrative and documentary subjects in nearly
all formats. He is currently co-director of the downtown
filmmaker's boutique, DV Dojo. Alex is the former Deputy
Director of the New York Film Academy, and he is a graduate
of NYU Tisch School of the Arts Department of Film and
Television.
Jürgen Miller has been working as a motion graphic
artists and compositor for over 5 years. In addition ,he
teaches beginning and advanced courses in After Effects
at The Fashion Institute of Technology and the Computer
Instruction Center at The New School University.
Jürgen has worked with an extensive list of clients
from non-profit, to corporate to broadcast; producing
animations for video, television and multimedia.
Terry Nauheim is a digital arts instructor and visual
artist in New York City. As an instructor, she teaches
digital video editing and related digital/creative arts
topics at Harvestworks, New York University's Center for
Advanced Digital Applications, New York Insitute of Technology,
and Pratt Institute.
Her drawings and installations have been exhibited at
the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the Contemporary Museum,
Baltimore; Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts; Musée
Art Contemporain Lyon; Nomads, a web-based "audiophile",
and Works/San Jose. Future exhibitions include the Sculpture
Center in Long Island City, New York. She is a recent
participant of the Bronx Museum of the Arts "Artist
in the Marketplace" program. In 2002, she received
the Maryland State Arts Council Individual "New Genre"
Artist award.
Terry received her MFA in mixed media/digital arts in
2001 at University of Maryland and BFA in painting at
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1992 where
she received a William Fett Drawing Award. She has also
managed exhibition and design projects at the Contemporary
Museum, Baltimore; the Walters Art Museum; and University
of Maryland.
He is the founder of the New York City Logic Pro Users Group, and is the co-founder
of Mac Audio
Trainers, which offers Logic certification courses, customized classroom
training, and private instruction. He is the Associate Director of the Sonic
Arts Center at The City College of New York, where he has shaped
the growth and direction of a unique 4-year BFA training program in Music and
Technology, offered to a select group of talented young producers from around
the world.Jonathan has assisted a diverse range of
artists, composers and producers, including: Pat Metheny, Shep Pettibone (Madonna),
John Cale (Velvet Underground), Angelo Montrone (Anita
Baker), Richard Einhorn, Earl Rose, Graham Haynes, and Stuart
Matthewman (Sade). In addition to his active teaching
and training schedule, Jonathan provides underscore and sound effects for video
projects, and consults with composers on film and video.
For more than 12 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on
the cutting edge of the digital 'video-journalist' revolution.
In fact, he coined the phrase. "Video-journalism
is more than just teaching someone to shoot and edit their
own video," he says, "It is teaching creative
people to be 'literate' in the most powerful medium in
the world today."
"Television is a medium that has been traditionally
closed to all but a select elite, and as a result, what
we see on television, and increasingly on the internet,
is for the most part banal, insipid and uninspired. It
is the natural end of turning over our primary means of
communication to a handful of people, no matter how well
intentioned."
Leading the drive for video literacy, and the complete
rethinking of how television is made and controlled, Rosenblum
has been on the leading edge of the digital video revolution
for more than a decade. His work has included: the creation
of 'VJ' units for BBC and Oxygen , the complete conversion
of The Voice of America, the United States Government's
broadcasting agency (and the largest broadcaster in the
world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting
and webcasting using the 'VJ' paradigm (1998-present),
as well as the construction of NYT Television, a New York
Times Company, and currently the largest producer of non-fiction
television in the U.S. Rosenblum was both the Founder
and President of NYT TV (based on the 'VJ' paradigm, 1996-1998).
He was also the President and Founder of Video News International
, a global, VJ-driven news gathering company, with more
than 100 journalists around the world (1993-1996).
Michael has also designed, built and implemented VJ-driven
news channels around the world, including Time/Warner's
New York 1, Associated Newspapers (UK) London-based Channel
1 , Switzerland's largest commercial TV broadcaster, TeleZuri
, as well as a host of smaller projects such as Eritrea's
ERI-TV and Sri Lanka's SLBC . His consulting clients include
The BBC, TV-24/Germany, TV4/Sweden, Oxygen Media, National
Public Radio, Danmarks Radio (DK), TV-3 Sweden, Norway
& Denmark, Tokyo Broadcasting, Korea Broadcasting.
He has conducted his unique VJ training classes all over
the world, from Thailand to Marakech, and has lectured
extensively both oversees and in the US. He is an adjunct
professor of communication at New York University , where
he teaches "Television and the Information Revolution,"
a course of his own design.
While a film student at the School of Visual Arts, Evan
Schechtman had an unfortunate incident with a Moviola.
The bloodletting, coupled with the frustration at the
restraints of modern technology, led him to think about
the future of post production.
In the years that followed, Evan became
an expert in desktop technology and in 1998, founded Outpost
Digital, which fast became known for its innovative
use of next generation media technologies. In 2000, Outpost
was acquired by bicoastal/international @radical.media
and Evan became radical’s Chief Technology Officer,
while still heading up Outpost Digital’s New York
office, as well as their new facility in Santa Monica.
Over the years, Evan has built a core
group of people who share his creative vision, as well
as his passion for technology.
Outpost has done extensive work in broadcast, film and
commercials, working with such networks as ABC, CBS, MTV,
VH1, ESPN, and the Food Network, agencies like Ogilvy
& Mather, BBH, and Weiden+Kennedy, as well as Steven
Soderberg, Gus van Sant and Danny deVito.
Outpost is constantly evolving with
the each new technological stride and has committed itself
to being at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies
and superlative post-production service.
Producer/Creative Director
Apple Certified Trainer
Jem is the president and creative director of Buttons
Productions, a CREATIVE company that specializes in providing
video production, DVD, web, audio and post solutions
for a variety clients (with particular focus on the film,
music and entertainment industries). Additionally, Clockwork
Cinema, a newly formed division of Buttons Productions,
provides DVD Producing, Design and Authoring services
for independent and studio feature films.
He is an Apple Certified Trainer in DVD Studio Pro and
Motion and teaches DVD authoring, sound design and motion
graphics, around the country, when not trying to meet
ungodly deadlines!
Jem has extensive music and audio experience in both
performance and post-production workflows. His fascination
with music began early in life and in school he was part
of a small jazz band. He continued performing with a
variety of groups after completing his education and
has since created original music for a diverse client
base (for web, DVD and video based delivery). He now
counts Soundtrack Pro as major component in his audio
toolkit.
You can find Jem as a leader in the Apple
DVD Studio Pro forum and the Apple Motion forum at CreativeCOW.net,
as a writer of feature articles and reviews for P3: Production
Update magazine, and regularly admitting that he is becoming
far too geeky for his or his family's own good!
Harry Seldom is an artist who has been working with computer
graphics systems for graphic design, image processing,
animation and video FX for over 18 years. He has also
spent many years training operators of video graphics
systems on behalf of their manufacturers, most notably
Pinnacle Systems, Inscriber Technology and Orad. For the
past several years he has focused his energy on video
editing using Final Cut Pro and producing digitally modified
photography using Photoshop. He is also the founder of
Electric Shaman Studios, a multimedia art conspiracy.
His artwork can be seen at www.harryseldom.com.
He can currently be seen as an instructor for the Digital
Media Training Series "Inside Photoshop CS: Working
with Digital Photos"
In 1998 Noah Todd was an assistant Editor for WNET/PBS
Thirteen, where he worked on the Metro Arts Program, a
daily 2-hour show. It was there that Apple made a special
presentation introducing Noah to their new software package
Final Cut Pro.
After Thirteen Noah carved out his role as the Interactive
Creative Director at Fortune 500 Company, AON. His V.P.
position was responsible for guiding the creative development
of all interactive projects. The projects ranged from
streaming online video, animations, and corporate presentations
for clients such as Canon, Lucent, WWF, Discovery, AT&T,
Celestica, L’Oreal, Washington Post, Toyota, among
others.
Today Noah Owns and operates Noah Todd Productions, a
full service production company located in Manhattan.
Noah Todd employs diverse production techniques in mediums
ranging from Digital Video, to high Definition, to glorious
35mm film. Projects include music videos, events, commercials,
documentaries, and television series.
Clients include Tommy Hilfiger, ELLEgirl Magazine, Seventeen
Magazine, Oxygen Networks, MTV, among others.
Noah earned a BFA in Theater, and Graphic Design from
the University of Rhode Island, and a Certificate in Film
Directing from New York University.
Zak has an extensive background training
students new to nonlinear editing as well as seasoned
editors new to Final Cut Pro.
In addition to being one of Apple's beta testers for Final
Cut Pro, Zak is the founder and supervising editor of
Swete Studios, a digital post house in New York City,
specializing in film and DV feature, commercial, and broadcast
documentary productions.
Steve Weinrebe is an Adobe Certified Photoshop
Instructor and has been teaching Photoshop since 1991. Steve
has over 30 years experience in commercial photography, photo-illustration
and digital imaging, and has won numerous awards, including
honors for some of the work contained on this disc.
As
President of Steve Weinrebe Productions, he routinely creates
magic with Photoshop and can effectively demonstrate myriad
techniques that will greatly enhance any Photoshop project.
Steve holds a B.A. from Beloit College, an MBA with Honors
from Temple University.
Zeth Willie is an experienced multi-media instructor, having taught classes in Film Production, Maya, After Effects and Digital Media at the New York Film Academy.
In 1998, he founded Cat Buks Productions, a company providing a full compliment of cross-platform multi-media services. Zeth's client list includes Ogilvy & Mather, GettyOne, ClearChannel, Bang Music, SchoolSports Magazine, Sasha and Digweed, Delta Heavy, Balance Promote and AnimationMD amongst others.
Zeth has also contributed to tutorials on Magnet Media's Zoom In DVD Series.
Jeff Witchel is an award-winning director,
writer, designer and producer. He is also an Adobe® Certified Instructor. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for clients including AT&T, Jell-O and Pfizer. His many awards include an Andy, as well as an Emmy Award nomination. As an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2, Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York area. He
counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios,
magazines, illustrators, and photographers.
