When I was in high school, I was introduced to video. Our school had received a black & white camera that was connected to a portable video recorder. We only had use of this unit for a short time but it sparked my interest in video. Before that I found myself cutting the Super8 home movies my father would shoot at all of our family get togethers. It wasn't until years later when I had a part-time job selling computers at a local store, that also sold VCR's, Video Cameras, that my interests in video were re-sparked. At that time editing was done deck-to-deck and the features we now have were not possible for the hobbyist.

In 1990 I was able to purchase my first video camera. It was a Panasonic PV-5200 VHS Camcorder, In fact, I still have that camera. It was great, I shot many hours of tape that first year on a trip to Disney and many family get togethers. The only thing missing, was an easy way to edit the footage. Later I retired that camera for a Sony Hi8 Handy Cam. This was great. The tapes were 1/3 the size of the VHS tapes. The camera itself was much smaller and the batteries lasted much longer. Still, I didn't have an easy way to edit.

As time passed, while, selling Apple Macintosh computers, I came across editing software that would run on the Macintosh computer allowing me to do non-linear-editing (NLE). The only problem at this point was, video footage took up lots of hard drive space and hard drives were small when compared to hard drives now. I could only edit short portions of the video at a time.

Later Apple released an editing software package called iMovie. Wow, now I could edit much longer videos. This worked seamlessly with the Macintosh computers and came bundled with the iMac. At that time I was managing an Apple Dealership. I created a training room at our office and started giving classes on iMovie. Apple expanded their editing software to Final Cut Pro and we expanded our training and seminars for our customers.

Around 6 years ago I decided to go full-time into video production. From weddings I've expanded into many other areas, including corporate, and marketing, and dance recitals. When I went into video full-time I also expanded my shooting to include multiple cameras at most events.