Mark Stoeckinger is a sound effects editor and artist with over 80 motion picture credits and three Oscar nominations. His films include Star Trek (2009), Unstoppable (2010), Gladiator (2000) and Mission Impossible (2000 and 2006). He has supervised sound production

Libby Casey is a television anchor, reporter, writer and a Pulitzer Prize winner. What’s unique about her job is she anchors the streaming broadcasts of the Washington Post, one of the nation’s top newspapers. Casey is one of a handful

Founded in 2021, NBCU Academy is a journalism, media technology and content creation training and development program. It is designed to prepare college students for a career in the news and media technology industry and to help professional journalists gain

BirdDog, an Australian company founded in 2016, is relatively new to television broadcasting. It’s based on a new technology and a single concept: simplify global television production through the use of computer networks. The key technology behind BirdDog is NDI

As Senior Director of Global Innovation at Adobe, Michael Cioni lives and breathes digital cinema technology. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, Cioni went to Hollywood in 2003 and became a founding member of PlasterCITY Digital Post, one of the

Jeff Greenberg is an editor’s editor. He has over two decades of experience as a post-production consultant and instructor for Adobe, Apple, Avid and Blackmagic Design, specializing in editorial, workflow, compositing, sound, color grading and compression. Owner of J Greenberg

Vizrt sprung out of nowhere 23 years ago to grow into a video powerhouse whose products today are watched by three billion viewers in more than 100 countries around the world. Short for Visualization in Real-Time (Vizrt), a Norwegian company,

Scott Freeman is both a video editor and an engineer. This combination of skills has gotten him the nickname “Sherlock Holmes” due to his unusual ability to solve complex editing problems that slow down post-production workflows. Dozens of shows now

Al Roker is the current weather anchor on NBC’s TODAY show. Beyond that, he is a journalist, author and head of a multi-faceted film and video production company. In 2014, Roker attempted to beat the unofficial world record for an

Michael Kammes has designed and built thousands of video production and post-production systems, workflows and facility integrations during his nearly 20 years as a technology advisor in the media and entertainment industry. He’s a well-known public speaker on workflows, a

Gary Trenda is one of the world’s top frequency coordinators of wireless microphones. He has coordinated wireless systems on six Super Bowls; Cirque du Soleil; dozens of awards shows and music acts including Fleetwood Mac, Metallica, Toby Keith and The

When it comes to expertise in the recording of immersive sound, there are no greater experts in the world than Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz. Husband and wife as well as production partners in Anderson Audio, New York, Anderson and

Dave Hussey is one of the top colorists in Hollywood, having worked on dozens of feature films, commercials and more than 2,000 music videos. A multi award-winning senior colorist and founding member of Company 3, with offices throughout the world,

This is a very unusual Q&A because the interviewee died at age 93 in 2002. In April, 1987, I entered a classroom in Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles to begin a 10-week lecture course called

About to turn 80 later this year, Wes Dooley is a Pasadena, California-based audio pioneer with strong connections to the earliest days of audio history in the United States. The founder of AEA (for Audio Engineering Associates), Dooley’s mentor was