What if you had an expert in your corner? Someone who has already seen your problem in a few hundred other edit bays, whose only agenda is solving your problems, and whose career doesn't depend on telling you what you want to hear.
Wireframe → render · Advanced is something you just don't know yet
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2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration
A few of the 300+ session titles
The number one question in the room
Which one of these sounds like your week?
For TeamsYour group, possibly producers and/or everyone in post
01
We're delivering. Painfully. And I don't think we know our own blind spots.
Then we build the map first. A flow chart of how post actually works here: camera to delivery, every handoff, every place a file changes hands. You wouldn't go on set without a shot list. You shouldn't run a production through a maze nobody has drawn. Most shops find their two worst problems while we're still drawing it.
Color. Sound. Not everyone here is on the same page.
Nobody's wrong. They've each designed their own way of working, which makes handoff more delicate than it should be. Instead of trying to create a specs document, we learn best practices so we're all working the same way. We're not taking away creative freedom. We're teaching creative process.
AI. It's moving faster than any technology before it. A large segment of the problem is a lack of understanding of what the tools can and can't do, along with the fallacy that they'll make us five times faster. Relying on them without understanding them leads to a path of spending 80% of your time on what AI broke. We focus instead on what deserves your attention, what actually can make a difference, and with awareness of client IP exposure.
Post is eighty percent planning and twenty percent execution, and most shops have it backward. A dollar in preproduction is a hundred dollars in post. Show me where the fire starts and it's almost always three decisions made before anyone opened an NLE.
For the Individual1:1 style of information and training
05
I need to upscale [TOPIC] yesterday.
There are times where being a good storyteller isn't enough. Where do you go when you need to get that skill educationthat's catered to you? It's definitely never going to be YouTube. Is it Color? Sound? Which new features are solid in the latest release? This is the help and education that meets you right at your need. And yes, if it's not something I'm strong at? You should bet that I know the person that fits.
How can we build better tools when the users don't always know what they need?
What if you had a focus group in a box, somebody who understood software development and user behavior, regardless of what lane they live in? Oscar winner, corporate jack of all trades, user-generated content creator; it doesn't matter. I can help you find the appropriate major wins for your product, help dial in your marketing, and help you create educational content when development is slower than we want.
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2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration
PackageHow to work smarterExpert session, personalized for your group.$720 2 hrs
PackageApplied AIWe figure out and test the best tools that are viable and working today, not just ones that have a great demo.$1,138 4 hrs
RetainerAn on staff post consultantDirect questions and support. I'm in your Slack, and we take a call a month. Expands as needed.$2,500 10 hrs · 3 mo min
PackageTargeted critical educationTwo 3-hour focus sessions plus two 1-hour review/Q&A sessions. Topics such as AI, colour, transcript-based editorial, colour matching, project organization.$2,397 8 hrs
PackagePipeline teardownThe outside voice. No politics, no career at stake. I find the blind spots and rank the fixes by hours saved. The workflow breakdown covers optimizing the NLE, third-party tools, AI, automation plugins.$2,997 10 hrs
For the Individual
Skip the search. Get answers and education that fit.
Free resourcesTen questions to find the gap, then where I'd actually send you. Most of it isn't mine.What to learn nextFree
PackageSkip the searchGet the right answer. Right now. No games. No sales funnels. Yes, I'll recommend someone else when appropriate or just tell you I don't know.$297 2 hrs
RetainerMentorshipTwo two-hour sessions. I review your actual colour or sound mix, or we talk it through.$750 2 × 2 hrs
Tool Developers/SaaS groups
Know what your users actually do.
Free resourcesTwelve questions about your own product. The last one is the real one.Questions about your productFree
PackageProduct insightsWhat's broken, what your competition is doing, and what your users actually want. I take the tool apart and use it on real work with the session recorded, then bring back what the room says about your category. I'm in those rooms every week.$2,997 10 hrs
RetainerThe voice of the prosProduct insights every week. You can't fly a plane without radar and instruments, and you're trying to develop product the same way.$1,200 per month
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2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration
Shepherding switchers since 2001
My favorite NLE? Yours.
I've been in all of them since they shipped. I've helped write their training
materials and taught their master classes. They are all wonderful and they are
all flawed, which is why I can't sell you the one I like best. I don't have one,
and you're likely using at least two of them anyway.
Switching between them? Let's make it easy.
Avid Media Composer 5.5
Final Cut Pro 1.2
Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0
DaVinci Resolve 9
Every tool I've taught
Adobe Audition
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Encore
Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Prelude
Adobe Premiere Rush
Adobe SpeedGrade
Apple Color
Apple Compressor
Apple DVD Studio Pro
Apple LiveType
Apple Motion
Apple Soundtrack Pro
Avid 3D
Avid DS (master trainer)
Avid DVD
Avid Marquee
Avid NewsCutter
Avid Symphony
Avid Xpress Pro
Blackmagic Fairlight
Blackmagic Fusion
Boris Continuum
Boris Continuum Titler
Boris Sapphire
Discreet Cleaner XL
Final Cut Pro Classic and 7
Final Cut Pro X
Grass Valley EDIUS
Ocean Systems dTective
ScriptSync and PhraseFind
Sony XPri (master trainer)
Sorenson Squeeze
Telestream Episode
Telestream Wirecast
I appreciate your OS agnostic stance — around here that's a huge
minority.— NAB Vegas attendee
Master-level certified by four companies that compete with each other.
Adobe
Apple
Avid
Blackmagic Design
The hard problems get sent to me.
A lot of the people in my rooms are other instructors. That's a harder room than
a room of students, and it's the one that decides whether any of this is real. If
your problem were easy, you'd have already solved it. The ones that aren't easy
are the ones that land on my desk.
Jeff is the guy the other instructors, editors and trouble shooters
turn to when they get stumped.— Che B.
I hear what's breaking before the vendors do.
I'm in someone else's edit bay most weeks of the year, and I moderate five
editing communities, about a million people. Problems reach me early, in volume,
from rooms that have no reason to be polite about it. That's why I can usually
tell you whether the thing you're worried about is real or a rumor.
Of all the presenters, you stood out the most because you made it
not about you.— InterBee
Meeting you at your individual level.
One of the things that makes consulting, working with clients, or educating
identical is meeting the audience where they're at. It doesn't make a difference
what the title of the topic is. The concept is the path of acquiring and learning
new information and new workflows, which is a little different for each person.
Sometimes they need more explanations about color
management. Sometimes it's more about compression. Sometimes it's more about making
the tools feel like extensions of their hands. I won't judge you or your team for
what you don't know. I know that's hard to believe. My one rule there: I'm able to
teach you as long as you can do undo from the keyboard. If you can't do that, we're
going to be in trouble.
He was very willing to adapt his language and presentation of complex
information to the level of the attendees.— Adobe MAX attendee
2026Building Customized LLM's for Your Content2026Leveraging AI for Your Business2026Privacy-First AI Tools: Local Tools You Can Use Today2026Birds of a Feather — Artificial Intelligence2026AI Anxiety and Your Career: A Therapy Session2026Staying Relevant in the Age of AI2025Is it Real or AI Video2024Did You Hear That? AI Plugins and Tools for Audio2024Saving Time in Post thanks to AI2024Gen Video: Is it Real or AI2024LLM: ChatGPT to the Rescue — Using LLMs in Post2024AI Tools to Enhance Your Workflow2023Practical AI Tools2023AI Audio: From Smart EQ to Stems2023The Digital Revolution: A Cloud Odyssey2022AI Tools for editors2021AI Tools for editors2026Building Customized LLM's for Your Content2026Leveraging AI for Your Business2026Privacy-First AI Tools: Local Tools You Can Use Today2026Birds of a Feather — Artificial Intelligence2026AI Anxiety and Your Career: A Therapy Session2026Staying Relevant in the Age of AI2025Is it Real or AI Video2024Did You Hear That? AI Plugins and Tools for Audio2024Saving Time in Post thanks to AI2024Gen Video: Is it Real or AI2024LLM: ChatGPT to the Rescue — Using LLMs in Post2024AI Tools to Enhance Your Workflow2023Practical AI Tools2023AI Audio: From Smart EQ to Stems2023The Digital Revolution: A Cloud Odyssey2022AI Tools for editors2021AI Tools for editors
2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration2026Advanced Color Correction for AV Content2026Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess2026The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro2026Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors2026Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask2026Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More2026Making it as a Freelancer2025Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve2025Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial2024Video Compression Bootcamp2024Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve2024Remote and Cloud Editorial2024Skills I Wish I'd Learned2024Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care2024Subscription-free Lifestyle2023Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy2022Closed and Open Captions2021Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page2021eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration
Speaking events
25 years of audience feedback: biggest complaint? It was too short.
The biggest secret of every talk: the audience should always be wanting
more. The best sin a speaker can commit is finishing on time and leaving
the room wanting to come back, not just for your session but for the event. That's
why I coach other speakers and other instructors.
The secret that goes with it: Empathy. You have to be able to identify with the
audience, emotionally and intellectually. If you can't feel what they're
feeling, what they need, and where they're struggling, how are you supposed
to help them find the path to it?
Getting up in front of a room isn't about being the topic expert. It's
about being an expert storyteller and communicator. Public speaking, editing and
teaching all walk the same path: storytelling.
Want me to speak at your event? A single conference talk is as easy as
flight and hotel. Beyond one talk it's a conversation where we work inside
of the budget. And yes, I've built several successful conferences. I know
the sessions that put butts in seats.
The Honest no: If I can't help, I'll say so
Let's make this simple: 30 minutes of my time right now, for free.
If I can solve something simply and quickly, I'll just do it. Why? Because if I do,
you'll tell everyone. It's the best marketing out there.
If it's something that takes more time, we'll figure out how we can make it work
together.
If it's something I can't do or can't find someone amazing to work with us?
I'll say no.
Or, as the back of my business card has
said for years: Go ahead, email me that question that was bothering
you.
Learning in public
What I'm running, what I threw away.
Updated when it changes, dated so you
can tell when it didn't. The discard column is the useful one. It's the time I
already spent so you don't have to.
AS OF JULY 2026
In the rotation
Resolve · Premiere Pro · Media Composer · Final CutAll four, on purpose. It's how I stay unable to have a favorite.
Whisper, running locallyTranscription that never leaves the machine. The whole privacy argument in one tool.
ParakeetThe other local speech model. Same rule as Whisper — the audio never leaves the room.
Adobe PodcastAudio repair on session recordings. Does one thing extremely well.
Wispr FlowVoice to text, system-wide. Faster than typing for a first pass, and a first pass is all it has to be.
Claude · Claude CodeWhere most of the thinking-out-loud happens.
ChatGPT · CodexSecond opinion from a different model family. Different failure modes, which is the point.
Antigravity · Antigravity IDEA third vendor's answer to the same problem. Watching how they disagree is most of the education.
Kiro IDESpec first, code second. It writes the plan before it writes anything you have to live with.
CodexBarUsage for Codex and Claude Code, in the menu bar. Knowing what you're burning changes how you work.
FathomMeeting capture. I stopped taking notes in calls and got better at calls.
ObsidianPlain markdown, mine, on my disk. Nothing to migrate off later.
DropboxEvery handout I've ever given out lives here. Unglamorous, unbroken.
Dropped, and why
Gamma · Beautiful.aiUndecided — still on the fence. Gamma was great for four of my five NAB 2026 decks, and destroyed the color class, the one where the visuals were the content. Fine for structure, not for craft. Beautiful.ai is the other one I keep circling. I haven't called it either way.
EvernoteFifteen years in, and getting the data back out is its own project. That's the tell.
CometTried the AI browser. Back to Chrome inside a month.
SquarespaceFourteen years. This site is the exit.
Sorenson Squeeze · Cleaner XLLeft here for the people who remember. Compression stopped being a product and became a checkbox.
The desk
AlfredLauncher, clipboard history, and a slew of workflows I've built up over years. The keyboard layer over everything else.
MoomWindow management from the keyboard. With this many screens it stops being a preference.
Stream DeckOne button for anything I do more than twice a day.
SnapCursorMine — I built it. A menu bar app that finds and snaps the cursor, because across three screens the pointer goes missing constantly.
FantasticalBack in the rotation, after dropping it once.
Jump DesktopRemote into the bay from a hotel room. Holds up on conference wifi, which is the only test that matters.
ParsecFor when the remote work is interactive — colour, playback, anything where lag is the problem.
Insta360 webcamFor teaching remotely. It tracks when I move, and I move.
Apple Vision ProImmersive video is a delivery format now, whether or not anyone is ready for it.
Receipts
I've been teaching this since 2001.
A session list. Every one of these was a room full of
people.
Advanced Color Correction for AV Content · Building Customized LLM's for Your Content · Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess · Leveraging AI for Your BusinessInfoComm · 4 sessions
Staying Relevant in the Age of AI · Making it as a Freelancer · Privacy-First AI Tools: Local Tools You Can Use Today · The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro · Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors · Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask · Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More · Birds of a Feather — Artificial Intelligence · AI Anxiety and Your Career: A Therapy SessionNAB · Las Vegas · 9 sessions
Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve · Is it Real or AI Video: The Impact of Gen AI on Post · Getting the Most out of Transcription-based EditorialNAB · New York · 3 sessions
Video Compression Bootcamp · Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve · Did You Hear That? AI Plugins and Tools for Audio · Remote and Cloud Editorial · Saving Time in Post thanks to AI · Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial · Skills I Wish I'd Learned · Gen Video: Is it Real or AI · Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care · LLM: ChatGPT to the Rescue — Using LLMs in PostNAB · Las Vegas · 10 sessions
I was consulting on machine learning around 2014, back when nobody was calling it AI. Much of what's below predates ChatGPT being public in November 2022. I mention it only because the shape matters more than the dates: tools, then what's actually useful, then what's real versus hype, then how to run it locally so client footage never leaves the building. You can't skip the middle.
Where
Postapalooza · Editors Retreat, created · Final Cut Pro Creative Summit, created · NAB — Las Vegas, New York, London · IBC · InterBEE · CES · Adobe MAX · Post Production World · Post Production World NYC · Premiere Pro World · Government Video Show · Avid Government Video Show · Video Creator University · Input Conference, Israel · Supermeet · DMDC · NYDV · LADV · NATAS · LEVA · CABSAT.
Interviews from the stage
Stephen Rivkin · Paul Hirsch · Sally Menke · Rob Legato · Dan Lebental · Maryann Brandon · Craig McKay · Jay Rabinowitz · Stu Bass · Geoff Richmond · Billy Goldenberg · David Helfand · Rick Pearson · Steve Wozniak — and more I haven't dug out yet.
Session after session
Four to eleven sessions per conference, which is what a week at one of these actually looks like. The last decade is listed session by session. Before that, just the show and the year — the titles are in a filing cabinet, the rooms were full.
2026 Advanced Color Correction for AV Content · 2026 Building Customized LLM's for Your Content · 2026 Post Production in the Cloud: Managing Media Without the Mess · 2026 Leveraging AI for Your Business · 2026 Privacy-First AI Tools: Local Tools You Can Use Today · 2026 The Intuitive Guide to Color for Adobe Premiere Pro · 2026 Faster Motion Graphics Workflows for Editors · 2026 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Compression, But Were Afraid to Ask · 2026 Video Editors Meetup on Business: A Discussion on Rates for Clients and More · 2026 Birds of a Feather — Artificial Intelligence · 2026 AI Anxiety and Your Career: A Therapy Session · 2026 Making it as a Freelancer · 2026 Staying Relevant in the Age of AI · 2025 Working Smarter in DaVinci Resolve · 2025 Is it Real or AI Video · 2025 Getting the Most out of Transcription-based Editorial · 2024 Video Compression Bootcamp · 2024 Work Smarter not Harder in DaVinci Resolve · 2024 Did You Hear That? AI Plugins and Tools for Audio · 2024 Remote and Cloud Editorial · 2024 Saving Time in Post thanks to AI · 2024 Skills I Wish I'd Learned · 2024 Gen Video: Is it Real or AI · 2024 Color Management, HDR, and Why You Should Care · 2024 LLM: ChatGPT to the Rescue — Using LLMs in Post · 2024 Subscription-free Lifestyle · 2024 AI Tools to Enhance Your Workflow · 2023 Practical AI Tools · 2023 AI Audio: From Smart EQ to Stems · 2023 The Digital Revolution: A Cloud Odyssey · 2023 Staying Sane in a Freelance Economy · 2022 Closed and Open Captions · 2022 AI Tools for editors · 2021 Speed Editing on Resolve's Cut Page · 2021 eGPUs and Mobile Acceleration · 2021 AI Tools for editors
Editors Retreat 2012 · Boulder event 2011 · DMDC 2011 · DigiComm 2011 · Editors Retreat 2011 · IBC 2011 · Input Conference 2011 · NAB 2011 · Post Production World NYC 2011 · DMDC 2010 · Editors Retreat 2010 · IBC 2010 · NAB 2010 · Post Production World NYC 2010 · Editors Retreat 2009 · NAB 2009 · Post Production World NYC 2009 · DMDC 2008 · Editors Retreat 2008 · Film Meetup 2008 · NAB 2008 · Post Production World NYC 2008 · Avid Government Video Show 2007 · DMDC 2007 · Editors Retreat 2007 · Israel 2007 · LEVA 2007 · NAB 2007 · Post Production World NYC 2007 · Avid Government Video Show 2006 · DMDC 2006 · NAB 2006 · NATAS 2006 · Post Production World NYC 2006 · Avid Government Video Show 2005 · CES 2005 · DMDC 2005 · NAB 2005 · Post Production World NYC 2005 · Avid Government Video Show 2004 · DMDC 2004 · NAB 2004 · Temple University 2004 · Avid Government Video Show 2003 · DMDC 2003 · NYDV 2003 · Avid Government Video Show 2002 · LADV 2002 · NYDV 2002.
