Creative COW Forum Host, Magazine Writer, Web Writer, Contributing Editor, Author
Jerry Hofmann
JLH Productions Denver, Colorado USA
"After
having interacted with Jerry Hofmann online for quite some time in the
Final Cut Pro forum here at Creative Cow and elsewhere," says Kathlyn
Lindeboom, "we finally had the chance to meet Jerry Hofmann during
Maxon's 'Product Bash'
at NAB 2001 in Las Vegas. He was great to speak with and is as nice in
person as he is online. It was funny, he came up and introduced himself
and he said he was glad to finally meet Philip Hodgetts and many others
on the Cow team. We told him that we were thrilled to finally meet him!
But it still took us until October to convince him that he'd be perfect
on the FCP Team and he'd should send his picture. Well, here it is and
now he's a part of the team and we are so happy he is."
During
his 32 year professional show business career, Jerry has become an
award winning theatrical actor, TV and film editor, writer, director
and producer. He started his pro career as a theatrical producer,
director and actor. He founded his first television and film production
company in Los Angeles in 1978. During those years, he produced
hundreds of TV Commercials, industrial films, as well as broadcast
television shows. Currently, he is a partner in Bat-Mann Productions.
Their clients range from product manufacturers to development of
feature films, as well as industrial clients which include Merck
Pharmaceuticals and the National Jewish Medical Research Center.
Jerry
has produced in excess of 600 projects. He was a beta tester for Avid,
helping them develop the world's premier non-linear editing solutions.
For
the past couple of years he has been teaching part-time at The Colorado
Film and Video Instructional Studios, a joint facility shared by the
Aurora Community College and the University of Colorado at Denver in
the art and craft of production and post production in a laboratory
with 20 Final Cut Pro bays.
He received his BA in Theater and a BA in Communications (emphasis on TV and Film Production) from the University of Denver.
Jerry's new book published by New Riders Publishing, Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4 is available in the Dairy Store.
In this article, Jerry Hofmann reviews the Sorenson Squeeze 4 Compression Suite. "If you've read my reviews before about Sorenson's efforts in the Mac World, you'll know I've long been a fan of the company's products. The ALL NEW version of Sorenson Compression suite 4 is shipping now, and is by far the company's best effort to date, and I've been running the Squeeze 3 version, and have always found it easy to use, but this new version really takes the cake. Sporting a much beefier interface, Sorenson's new release adds new support for HD, including Apple's own recent codec, H.264. This is just the beginning however."
Jerry Hofmann has been impressed before by Sorenson Media's efforts -- afterall, he reviewed Sorenson Media Squeeze for Quicktime. But with Sorenson's new Compression Suite, Jerry is totally blown away by the Suite's deceptively simple but incredibly powerful new interface. It just doesn't get any easier than thisif you want to compress video for the web, email or CD!
Jerry Hofmann Reviews ''The Troubleshooter'' from Intelligent Assistance. If you get yourself into a bind technically with your setup whether it's HD or DV, this Companion to the Companion is an incredibly reliable way to get yourself, say ''out of jail''. It's another clever and well-executed product from the company leading the way of interactive help and teaching of many media programs. Jerry recommends ''The Troubleshooter'' highly for anyone tired of flipping pages in a manual for a solution to their troubleshooting needs. It's a very reasonable price too for a bunch for real honest-to-goodness professional quality help for a problem that's usually solved with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Need to do quality compressions of QuickTime movies and don't know much about it? Jerry Hofmann takes a look at a new product called Sorenson Squeeze brought to us by a company long recognized for supplying the finest codecs used for QuickTime compressions, Sorenson.
Jerry Hofmann takes a look at Tom Wolsky's Final Cut Pro 3 Editing Workshop published by CMP Books. This book is totally updated to include the new features in Final Cut Pro 3. It looks to be everything it promises to be.
There's been a lot of 'hype' surrounding Digital Film Tools' new 55mm Plugins for NLE's. In this article Jerry Hofmann, one of CreativeCOW's Final Cut Pro forum leaders lets COW members know whether the description of the tools is hype or if this set of filters deliver on the promise.
MovingPicture from StageTools is a dedicated program made for panning and zooming high resolution photographs for inclusion into projects edited in all the popular NLE's. In this article, Jerry Hofmann gives his impression of this great tool.
CreativeCOW leader, Jerry Hofmann has long been a fan of Pixelan's products and he's not disappointed by the latest set of offerings: Spices for NLE's! This is a review and a tutorial.
One of CreativeCOW's Final Cut Pro® forum leaders, Jerry Hofmann takes a look at the DV Companion, The Intelligent Assistant for Final Cut Pro 3. What it is, what's new if you're already experienced with the DV Companions and why it's a 'must have' if you're editing with Final Cut Pro 3.
One of CreativeCOW's popular Final Cut Pro® forum leaders, Jerry Hofmann takes a look at Automatic Composition Import FCP for Final Cut Pro users from Automatic Duck. 'I'm a believer. Can't get over it. Gotta have it.' Jerry says these are the words that come to mind after using the new tool...
One of CreativeCOW's popular Final Cut Pro® forum leaders, Jerry Hofmann takes a look at fellow leader Tom Wolsky's new 'Final Cut Pro 2 Editing Workshop'. Jerry teaches FCP at a university, so he's always on the lookout for good teaching resources and he concludes that Tom's book is a triumph for beginner and intermediate users of Final Cut Pro 2
