David Roth Weiss is an independent producer, director, editor, and a leading industry consultant based in Los Angeles. He is a veteran of the motion picture and television industry with a broad range of creative and technical expertise and experience that includes film and television, documentaries, and corporate communications.
David’s professional credits include feature films, commercials, broadcast documentaries, network sports and promos, medical videos, and reality TV series. His award-winning documentary films have aired on National Geographic Explorer, Discovery, PBS, and the BBC. In 1983 he founded David Weiss Productions, Inc., which is still going strong today, specializing in High Definition post-production and complete film and video creative services on historical, political, and environmental documentaries; corporate communications; as well as technology-related consulting and problem solving.
David began his professional career on the documentary camera crew at the CBS affiliate, WNAC-TV in Boston, while studying Broadcasting & Film at the Boston University School of Public Communications. After graduating, he relocated to L.A., where he spent several years as a sound mixer and sound designer on hundreds of TV commercials. After his acceptance as a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute, he turned his attention to producing, directing, and later editing, which ultimately became his specialty.
David produced, directed, and shot the 1987 oceanographic documentary, An Incidental Kill, which received the prestigious Genesis Award from The Fund For Animals and won Best Professional Film, Best Underwater Cinematography (by renowned U/W cinematographer Howard Hall), and Best Investigative Journalism at the International Wildlife Film Festival in Montana. An Incidental Kill was also one of the first films featured on Discovery's Shark Week, and scenes from the film can be seen on permanent display at Disney's Epcot Center, Seaworld, and Marineland.
David's passions are historical, political, and environmental documentaries; true crime; his dogs Willie and Augie; and, of course, his golf game. David plays golf to a 5-handicap, so consider yourself warned. His favorite recent project was editing the 2007 feature-length documentary, Rush to War, about the war in Iraq and the history of American foreign policy.
David contributes to Creative COW magazine with popular articles drawn from his industry experience. He also writes for CreativeCOW.net and is a host of the Creative COW's forums for Final Cut, Apple Final Cut Pro Basics, Business & Marketing and Indie Film & Documentary.
Writer and contributing editor, David Roth Weiss, takes us takes us Behind The Scenes in Hollywood to the DreamWorks Animation Studios, where the masterminds behind the new hit film, Monsters vs. Aliens, are reinventing the art of storytelling using new state of the art 3D stereoscopic filmmaking techniques and technologies.
Writer and contributing editor, David Roth Weiss, takes us UNDER THE HOOD of HP's powerful new Z800 workstations. With a radical new design inside and out, created in collaboration with the BWM Designworks global design consultancy, the new Z800 is HP's most powerful workstation ever for image and processor-intensive tasks, such as: HD video editing, composting, and 3D animation. As an added bonus, David takes us BEHIND THE SCENES with HP to DreamWorks Animation Studios, where the masterminds behind the incredible new hit film, Monsters vs. Aliens, are reinventing the art of storytelling using exciting new state of the art 3D stereoscopic filmmaking techniques and technologies.
In this second installment in his series of articles on Adobes latest post-production powerhouse, CS4 Production Premium, veteran editor David Roth Weiss takes closer look at Adobe Speech Search, a new speech recognition and transcription feature in both Premiere Pro CS4 and Soundbooth CS4. Speech Search is one the most exciting and eagerly anticipated new features to hit the editing world in a long time. So, if youve been wondering about it, read on, as David tells us what Speech Search is all about, how it works, and if it truly makes the grade.
Los Angeles Director and Editor David Roth Weiss finally takes the plunge and tests CalDigits new HDOne, an affordable turnkey RAID-5 protected video storage system.
This is the first in a series of articles in which veteran editor David Roth Weiss dives head first into, what are for him, the uncharted waters of Adobes latest release, CS4 Production Premium, including the updated and cross-platform OnLocation, and advanced metadata creation and tracking.
Recently, CreativeCOW leader, David Roth Weiss purchased his very first CD and DVD duplicator. After a lot of research he chose the ILY SpartanPro, and it did not take him long to realize that he should not have gone so long without one.
You may not sell a million copies of your DVD... but at least it will sound like a million bucks. In this DVD authoring tutorial, David Roth Weiss explains how to author 5.1 surround DVDs with Compressor and Soundtrack Pro 2.
The old adage says 'cheaper, faster, better - pick any two.' But is it still true? David Roth Weiss isn't sure anymore. Still, there's something clearly missing in production circles. Veteran director/editor David Roth Weiss looks at what's changing in the world of post production - and what's not.
