Making his start in the theater community in Phoenix, Arizona, Jay Holben directed several plays before transitioning into the filmmaking world. After moving to Los Angeles, he quickly made his way through the ranks from electrician to director of photography where he worked for several years on features, commercials, and music videos. Prior to his work as a cinematographer, he worked as a gaffer on many popular music videos for Korn, Brandy, Shaquille O'Neal and Ice Cube in addition to such feature films as the cult favorite Free Enterprise. Making his turn to directing, Holben's short film Paranoid, adapted from the poem by Stephen King, has garnered overwhelming praise for its stylistic excellence as well as high praise and support from Mr. King. An even shorter effort, an amazingly terse 50 second horror project, Hunger was spotlighted as one of director John Carpenter's favorites for a Halloween special he hosted on American Movie Classics and hailed by the New York Post critic Linda Stasi as her favorite of the show.Holben followed up those efforts with another short, Descent, a thrilling tale of a woman trapped in an elevator with the man she witnessed brutally murder her best friend. Descent had a successful run at the festival circuit, playing all around the world and winning several top awards. Taking a different turn, Holben is currently completing first feature-length documentary, CamGirls, which details the lives of some of the hundreds of young women who spend a significant portion of their life online for the world to see. Holben also produced and photographed the recently completed indie comedy Two Million Stupid Women (2009), directed by Jamie Neese. Holben is the Technical Editor of DV magazine and frequent contributing contributor to American Cinematographer and The Hollywood Reporter.

Having worked in the television, film and entertainment industry since 1970, Oliver Peters has accrued a diverse range of experience in all facets of production, postproduction and project management. In addition to "hands-on" positions, he has constructed various film and video facilities and served as project manager for many different entertainment venues. His credits include national and international TV and film projects, which have won such awards as the NATPE Iris, Telly, ITS Monitor, a national Addy and others. AVVMM Producer magazine named Peters one of the Top 100 Producers in 2001. He currently freelances as a project manager, editor and designer, as well as consult on facility design. Oliver is also a contributing editor to Videography and DV magazines and the Creative Planet Web sites, writing about editing and postproduction topics and products.

An author, editor, educator, and consultant on all things related to the Mac digital video world, Ned Soltz bought his first Mac SE some 15 years ago and never looked back. He began editing independent projects in Adobe Premiere but switched to Apple Final Cut Pro 1.0 the day after it was introduced at NAB. Soltz became one of the founding members of the L.A. Final Cut Pro Users Group, the largest FCP User Group in the world. Ned is a forum moderator on 2-pop.com and is the author of numerous articles and product reviews related to FCP, After Effects and the non-linear production environment. He is co-author of "Revolutionary Final Cut Pro 3" and "Revolutionary Adobe After Effects 5.5," a technical editor of three other volumes and is in the process of writing a yet-to-be-announced book. When he is not evaluating products, writing books and reviews or dispensing advice, he tries to find the time to shoot and edit documentaries as well as promotional and educational pieces for non-profit agencies. Soltz is a contributing editor to both DV and Videography magazines.

The editor of DV magazine and the conference chair of Digital Video Expo, David Williams grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and discovered his father's Super 8 camera in his early teens. He earned a BA in film production and theory at San Francisco State University, where he made experimental short films and dabbled in animation. In 1989, Williams moved to Los Angeles to join the staff of Film Threat magazine, a pioneering publication that documented the indie film scene long before it was chic to do so. At FT, he interviewed such unique filmmakers as Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jim Jarmusch, Dario Argento, Oliver Stone, Peter Jackson and John Waters. In 1995, Williams joined the staff of American Cinematographer magazine, becoming the senior editor while picking the brains of noted directors of photography and interrogating many other film professionals for the sake of AC's readership. He moved over to The Hollywood Reporter in early 2000 as the executive editor of features and special issues, coordinating coverage of such events as the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, the American Film Market, ShoWest and the Academy Awards, while also specializing in coverage on production technology, indie film, visual effects, film schools, cinematography and film preservation. The editor of DV magazine since the first day of the NAB Show in 2007, Williams has also contributed to such diverse publications as Details, Empire, Sci-Fi Universe, Wild Cartoon Kingdom and Avant Premiere.