Bob Zelin is an old cranky video engineer who got his start in the professional audio business in 1977. By 1981, he was fired so many times that no one wanted to hire him, so he started his own company in 1982. Today, Bob makes his living by terrorizing southern editing facilities. He is nevertheless one ofthe industry's most respected systems contractors. You won't have to look hard to find him at The COW: he posts daily in over a dozen forums.
Bob Zelin is always willing to integrate the newest solutions for his systems integration clients. Only this one was VERY new... and if everything didn't go exactly right, it was game over.
If you don't want to know, don't ask. Bob Zelin is one of the industry's straightest shooters, and he'll tell you how he's seen things work during his 30+ years in the broadcast trenches.
In this article from The Creative COW Magazine, Bob Zelin discusses the imporance of monitor calibration, different monitor options and how to execute the calibration on these monitors.
In this editorial from The Creative COW Magazine, Bob Zelin unearths some of his favorite things that pass his grueling daily video production torture test. Lyn Norstad joins Bob for his own personal favorite.
You bought a new Final Cut Pro system to go with your Avid Media Composer or your other Final Cut Pro systems. You have an After Effects system with an AJA, Blackmagic or other card in it, so you can capture video and audio on this station as well. Your neighbor in the next office has a ProTools or a Logic system, and he wants to tie into some of your machines. You're on your way to becoming exactly what you didn't want to be – a facility. Oh no!
In this Creative COW magazine article Bob Zelin discusses what it takes to build a professional, modern, nonlinear editing machine room. Bob covers storage, monitors, scopes, audio mixers, routing, power, cables and more.
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Bob Zelin is an old cranky video engineer who got his start in the professional audio business in 1977. By 1981, he was fired so many times that no one wanted to hire him, so he started his own company in 1982. Today, Bob makes his living by terrorizing southern editing facilities. He is nevertheless one ofthe industry's most respected systems contractors. You won't have to look hard to find him at The COW: he posts daily in over a dozen forums.
