Andrew Balis is a director of photography, an editor and a trainer who has worked with Final Cut Pro since its inception. Andrew consults with and trains many production companies and filmmakers in the L.A. area. He also is a guide/moderator at 2-pop.com, the on-line Final Cut Pro discussion forum and information site.

Max Grundy has been a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer for the majority of his life and an art teacher for several years. His work is shown throughout the United States.
Formally, he is interested in propaganda style imagery and vintage poster design. Specifically, nuclear era Russian propaganda art (around World War II). He admires its use of unusual perspective, limited color palette, dramatic text and design to create maximum effect. He believes this style has the ability to reach out and grab a viewer because of its economical graphic quality.

Producer of six features and a number of documentary and narrative shorts, J.R. Hughto has worked in production and post-production for the better part of a decade. Hughto specializes in producing with an eye towards using new technologies to drive down cost while improving quality. As a workflow consultant, Hughto has advised dozens of filmmakers from pre-production through their films' final outputs, on 35mm, HD, and SD.

Hughto works as a post production consultant for both Final Cut Pro and Avid projects, and also teaches a graduate course in HD & Digital Cinema Production at the California Institute of the Arts.

Hughto's films have screened at festivals and galleries internationally, including the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Viennale, the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Luben House in New York City.

Hughto holds a Master of Fine Arts in filmmaking from the California Institute of the Arts, and is an Avid Certified Support Representative (ACSR).

Stephen Kanter is an Avid and Apple certified editor living in Los Angeles. A member of the Editors Guild, he has worked in television as well as on documentaries, and feature films as an editor, producer and post-production supervisor. Currently one of a handful of Apple Master Trainers, Mr. Kanter has been an Apple Certified Trainer since the program began, and has also served as a contributing writer and technical editor for much of the Apple Pro Training Series published by Peachpit Press, including Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors, Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Soundtrack Pro. He has also been a Technical Editor for the Apple Training books for GarageBand and iLife '08. He is currently a freelance editor and trainer for UCLA as well as Moviola.
Visit his website at http://web.mac.com/editdog.

Daniel McGilvray is an ACSR , Apple Certified Instructor, Post-Production Supervisor, and independent filmmaker.

In his role as an ACSR McGilvray has provided technical support and built feature film editorial and dailies workflows for dozens of projects and with clients including Dreamworks, Spyglass, Miramax, MGM, Warner Brothers, and Universal.  He specializes in location deployments and has set up cutting rooms and dailies systems in New York, Toronto, Paris, Vancouver, Prague, New Orleans, Winnipeg , and San Francisco.   He has also worked for numerous episodic television, documentary, and ad agency clients. 

With an interest in the emerging technologies of Digital Cinema Acquisition, McGilvray has built and managed dailies workflows for projects shooting on formats including Viper, Genesis, RED, F23, EX3, and P2.  As a post-production supervisor McGilvray has managed projects shot on 35mm, HD, and RED as well as other file-based camera systems.   For each project he works to leverage emerging technology to deliver a cost and quality appropriate finish. 

As a specialist in both Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro systems, McGilvray regularly leads training efforts for Editors, Assistant Editors, and ACSRs on all aspects of editorial systems operations and workflow.

As a filmmaker, McGilvray recently directed and edited the short film, The Silence, for which he won the Best Editing award at the Action on Film Festival.  The film is currently playing film festivals nationally.

Paul Petschek is an Avid-Certified Instructor and a member of The Motion Picture Editors Guild and The Directors Guild of America. He is an internationally known editor, specializing in feature films and documentaries, with experience in editing TV series, TV pilots, music videos, trailers, and commercials.

Paul has had the pleasure of working as an editor on films such as Waterworld, Flipper, Another Day in Paradise, and A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies. Petschek's editing project Most (The Bridge), was nominated in 2003 by the Academy for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

As a film editor, Paul enjoys being a key participant in "the final draft of the script," when every nuance and eye-glance counts. He finds it to be a creatively dynamic, magical process. Paul enjoys being both an editor and an instructor who can help pass along the tools that open up that process for students.

Initially trained in visual arts at Harvard College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, he also has had his photographic sequences exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and seen by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Tom Quick became a producer and director of live television and video documentaries following a career in the music business and live event production.

In the mid-nineties Tom made the switch to editing. In 2004, the National Television Academy nominated Quick for a Daytime Emmy: "Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Editing" for his Avid work on feature stories for the Dr. Phil show.

His credits also include: LAPD: Life on the Beat, Flipper, Big Brother 2, The Bachelor, and numerous other major network productions as well as On- Air Promotion for Fox Family Channel and UPN.

Tom is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and has been both an Avid Certified Support Representative and an Avid Certified Instructor since 1996. He is currently working in Hollywood as a staff editor on the Dr. Phil show for Paramount Television.