April, 2012...

...A management group hired P D Post to edit and WMV compress two videos comprised of a series of quotes from their employees (answering two questions) that were embedded into a PowerPoint presentation and played back at a small group meeting.  Shot on the new Canon 5D Mark III, each shot looked great but needed color correction and audio optimization in addition to a creative way to transition between employees.

... A healthcare organization hired P D Post because they needed a ten-minute educational video professionally edited and compressed for distribution on their website and on DVD.  The video was shot in high definition at their Chicagoland facility, with P D Post on-site assisting with the shoot and taking timecode notes for more efficient editing, which was done at P D Post using Final Cut Studio 3.  P D Post created an opening montage and animated graphics using elements and information from their PowerPoint presentation.

March, 2012...

...An education company hired P D Post to edit and DVD author a one-camera, 60-minute presentation, type-revealing audience questions and creating chapter markers to correspond with the pages of the embedded PDF file.

...A financial services company hired P D Post to capture several hours of a presenter shot with two cameras to be multi-cam edited using Avid Media Composer and compressed to high quality WMV.

February, 2012...

...A financial services company hired P D Post to edit several corporate communications videos at their in-house facility using Avid Media Composer for a variety of end uses including speaker and website support via high quality WMV compression.

...P D Post spent several full days catching up via Avid Media Composer 5.5 and 6.0 training.  After receiving a certificate from Avid in 1998 after training at that time, P D Post filled in the gaps in February in order to be just as up-to-speed with Avid Media Composer as Final Cut Studio. P D Post offers Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Studio and Adobe Premier broadcast and video editing services either at your facility, in our recently updated P D Post Edit Suite or on-site anywhere in the world via P D Post Mobile.

January, 2012...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to edit two commercials at their in-house facility for an auto part client which were aired during a nationally televised auto race.

...A financial services company hired P D Post to create a video reflecting internal quotes from employees regarding past and current procedures and future preferences.  The video was authored by P D Post with six other edited roll-ins to two DVDs and used as speaker support on two consecutive days at a Chicago-area meeting.

...P D Post completed installation of five-figures of hardware and software upgrades to the P D Post Edit Suite (with four new pictures added), some of which is also available to P D Post Mobile.  Please check out the two links for more information about what’s new!

December, 2011...

...A financial services company hired P D Post to create a looping DVD at their in-house facility regarding corporate communications to be shown to hundreds of their employees on monitors in common areas throughout their building.  P D Post also troubleshot and optimized their recently upgraded Final Cut edit suite.

...P D Post spent a lot of time and effort in December in researching five-figures of hardware and software upgrades to the P D Post Edit Suite, some of which will also be available to P D Post Mobile, and purchased them during the final two weeks of 2011.  More details are to come in January 2012 as P D Post’s broadcast and video engineer hat is on as each new item arrives and is installed throughout January!

November, 2011...

...A medical organization hired P D Post to create five main 2-4 minute videos and ten short “Quick Tip” videos to be mixed and looped on DVD and played in the waiting rooms of their members across the country.  P D Post created the animated graphic look of the one-minute-or-less “Quick Tips”, and mixed music behind two professional announcer voices.  The videos were shot in high definition at several Chicagoland facilities and locations, and edited at P D Post primarily using Final Cut Studio and Photoshop.

...P D Post has been very fortunate to do a wide variety of broadcast and video editing with a wide variety of corporate facilities, television stations, post production houses, advertising agencies, independent producers and videographers, and others for an even wider variety of end uses (television commercials, infomercials, syndicated shows including “Oprah” and “Hit City”, corporate communications videos, etc.) professionally since 1983.  But, up until a few months ago, I've never been contacted and quoted in a book about any of my full-time or freelance experiences!  Read my comments about my first non-linear editing system purchase of and user experience with the ImMix VideoCube in 1995 (on Locations 4462 and 4488, or you can just search for "DeFilippo") in Timeline 2 - a great eBook about the history of editing.

October, 2011...

...A financial services company hired P D Post to create six videos at their in-house facility, reflecting internal quotes from employees regarding their specific departments for use at a November conference in Miami.  Each person was shot in high-definition on green screen and edited chroma-keyed over a still background with Avid generated text and effects, then compressed to high quality WMV for approval and on-site playback.

...A healthcare organization hired P D Post because they needed a one-hour educational video professionally edited and compressed for distribution on DVD and their website.  The video was shot in high definition at three medical facilities in three midwestern states and edited at P D Post in Final Cut Studio.

September, 2011...

...A healthcare organization hired P D Post because they needed a five-minute informational video edited and professionally compressed for their website.  The video is mostly several HD Photoshop files animated by P D Post, with one of the files featuring historical Betacam footage.  P D Post also project managed the professional narration.

...A producer/cameraman hired P D Post to edit on-site, using P D Post Mobile at a downtown Chicago hotel, a dozen short videos to be played back the next day as questions from attendees to a panel at a medical company convention.

...A video producer contact from LinkedIn hired P D Post to shoot and edit four short videos of operations at a manufacturing plant, compressed as high quality WMV files and used in a PowerPoint presentation at a regional meeting.

...A financial services company hired P D Post to create two videos reflecting internal quotes from employees regarding current procedures and future preferences.  The videos were authored by P D Post with six other edited roll-ins to two DVDs used on two consecutive days at a meeting, where the subtly animated DVD menu seamlessly showed on the screen between each roll-in until the presenters called for next to start.  No on-site switching equipment or operator was necessary, but it looked like it!

August, 2011...

...A healthcare organization hired P D Post because they needed a 25 minute training video edited, authored onto one DVD and compressed for their website.  The video concisely represents the organization’s material, presented by two of their directors with edited PowerPoint slide support, in a way that is easy to understand for all of their members.

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to edit a short farewell video for a retiring executive at the health services company. The video was compressed by P D Post as a high-quality WMV file as a memento for him.

July, 2011...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to edit on-site, using P D Post Mobile at their downtown Chicago facility, several training videos (as they were shot) to be played back the next week as speaker support at a Las Vegas resort for a health services company convention.

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to edit two humorous videos featuring a comedian interviewing attendees at a health services company convention shot on site at a Las Vegas resort. The videos were compressed by P D Post as WMV files for internal use.

June, 2011...

...An independent video production company hired P D Post to download several videos shot on flip cameras at their offices around the country and uploaded by the attendees for use at a national sales meeting of architects.

...A financial services company hired P D Post to Avid edit a bring-your-kids-to-work-day event at their facility.  DVDs were authored as a memento for each kid.

May, 2011...

...An education company hired P D Post to edit and DVD author a one-camera, 90-minute presentation, type-revealing audience questions and creating chapter markers to correspond with the pages of the embedded PDF file.

...A financial services company hired P D Post to create a short video recapping recent actions and successes by their natural disasters team.  The video was authored to DVD and compressed for internal use.

April, 2011...

...A post-production company hired P D Post to edit at their facility several videos recapping a national meeting of an education company in Chicagoland.  P D Post compressed the videos for web delivery as high-quality WMV files.

March, 2011...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post because they needed several testimonial videos created for their client, a healthcare/science company.  The videos were edited with P D Post created graphics and compressed for use both on the company’s website and on iPads at their trade shows.

...A financial services company hired P D Post because they needed several short videos created during the month for various internal uses.  The video was authored to DVD and/or compressed for web use.

February, 2011...

...An independent video producer hired P D Post to finish editing an hour-long sports program aired on Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

...A financial services company hired P D Post because they needed a 3-minute retirement video created, based on several historical photographs.  The video was played back at a conference with other roll-ins edited by P D Post, and also authored to DVD and compressed for web use.

January, 2011...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post because they needed two videos created for use at their company meeting.  P D Post shot and edited at the client’s location, and the humorous videos received a good response within the company.

...A producer/cameraman hired P D Post to edit several videos used as roll-ins by an international navigation company at a corporate meeting in Arizona.

December, 2010...

...A healthcare organization hired P D Post because they needed four 25-30 minute training videos edited, authored onto one DVD with submenus and embedded PDFs, and compressed for their website.  The videos concisely represent the organization’s material in a way that is easy to understand for all of their members.

...A financial services company hired P D Post to edit a multi-camera shot video news release aired the following day.  P D Post multi-cam edited the video on-site at the client’s facility, and compressed and uploaded the video for air on CNN and other news outlets.

November, 2010...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post because they needed several testimonial videos created for their client, a healthcare/science company.  The videos were edited with P D Post created graphics and compressed for use both on the company’s website and on iPads at their trade shows.

...An education company hired P D Post to edit an internal presentation including adding and animating the presenter’s PowerPoint graphics.  The final video was compressed for DVD and internal training use.

October, 2010...

...An independent producer hired P D Post to edit four political commercials for a Chicago north shore candidate for Congress. The commercials were edited with P D Post created graphics and aired on all Chicagoland television and cable channels.  They were also compressed for use on the candidate’s website and on YouTube.  See Commercial 1, Commercial 2 and Commercial 3.

September, 2010...

...A producer/cameraman hired P D Post to edit a “thank you” video for a donator to a major Chicagoland museum.  The video was authored to a looping DVD by P D Post.

August, 2010...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to edit a fun recap video of their summer party.  P D Post compressed the video for internal use.

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to edit a local commercial, aired on Chicagoland cable outlets and compressed for use on the company website.

...A financial services company hired P D Post to edit a public service announcement played back on a scoreboard during a professional baseball game.

July, 2010...

...A legal services organization hired P D Post to shoot a continuing education meeting at a downtown Chicago hotel, edit it with the PowerPoint slides of several presenters, author the day’s presentations with sub-menus to a four-DVD set and compress it for internal web use.

...An independent producer hired P D Post to edit roll-ins for a company meeting held in California.  The roll-ins were authored to DVD by P D Post.

June, 2010...

...A financial services company hired P D Post to edit a video regarding their experiences coupling their services with a related but different company.  The video was compressed for DVD for internal use nationally.

May, 2010...

...A healthcare organization hired P D Post to edit several videos to be used with print and online training materials.  The several videos were compressed using Flash compression.

April, 2010...

...A financial services company hired P D Post to edit a five-minute informational video.  It was compressed for DVD and internal use nationally.

...An independent producer hired P D Post to edit a television commercial for a plumbing company, aired on all Chicagoland television stations.

...An independent producer hired P D Post to edit on-site, using P D Post Mobile in a downtown Chicago hotel, candids videos played back the next day at an international conference for a legal services company.

March, 2010...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to on-site shoot and edit their sales pitch for a healthcare company.  P D Post also authored the presentation to DVD.

February, 2010...

...A fellow broadcast and video editor hired P D Post to provide tech support and tips and tricks with the Accom Affinity non-linear editing system, one previously bought in 1995 by P D Post and retired in 2005.

...A healthcare organization hired P D Post to edit and compress several videos to be used in a PowerPoint presentation.

January, 2010...

...An advertising agency hired P D Post Mobile to record and rough-cut edit four national service finding commercials on-site while they were taped at a downtown facility for instant client approval and continuity testing.  See Commercial 1 and Commercial 2.

...An advertising agency hired P D Post to edit two commercials for a Florida auto dealership.