Alexis Van Hurkman

Alexis Van Hurkman is a writer, director, and colorist based in New York. Alexis works on a wide variety of narrative and documentary programming that has aired on Mojo HD, The History Channel, BBC Four, and WNET, including the cable series “Survival School,” and the documentary feature “Prodigal Sons" which screened at the 35th Telluride film festival. Alexis' own feature "Four Weeks, Four Hours" has screened internationally at festivals including Breckenridge, Salento, Longbaugh, and Toronto ReelHeART. He has written extensively about postproduction with books including the "Encyclopedia of Color Correction," and the user manuals for Apple’s Color, Shake, and Final Cut Pro.

Andrew Balis

Andrew Balis is a cinematographer, editor, post production consultant and Apple certified instructor teaching classes in Final Cut Pro to industry professionals at Moviola Education and UCLA.

Brian Gary

Brian Gary is CEO of Flying Chaucer Films and an award-winning filmmaker (director, producer, editor). His three part mini-series, Jefferson Davis, An American President (PBS) has garnered multiple 2009 Best Documentary of the year awards.

He has also produced and edited festival award winning independent films; worked extensively in television, most recently directing and editing the series SpeedFreaks (ESPN and MavTV); and as a commercial and video director crafting campaigns for clients such as: Dow/Jones Factiva, Verizon Wireless, and Lucky Brand Jeans. Upcoming projects as a producer are the feature film adaptations of Stephen King’s Bag of Bones and James Ellroy’s Clandestine.

Christine Steele

Christine Steele is the founder of Steele Pictures, a Los Angeles- based post and consulting firm. She has worked on film and video for broadcast at ABC, Paramount, MSNBC, Frontline, Showtime, PBS, VH1, Zoetrope, MTV2, Bravo, LinkTV and Electronic Arts. Recently, Christine has been busy post supervising and editing for talhotblond - currently the number one documentary in iTunes.

Mark Spencer

Mark Spencer is a bay-area based producer, editor, teacher and writer. He runs a website dedicated to Motion users (www.applemotion.net). Mark is also an Apple-certified instructor for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 and the author or coauthor of 5 books on Motion, including the Apple Pro Training Series Motion 5, all from Peachpit Press.

Steve Martin

Steve Martin is the creative force behind Ripple Training and has been using and teaching Final Cut Pro since 1999. Since Final Cut Pro's introduction, he has introduced thousands of people to Final Cut Pro through his classes, workshops and training products.  He has consulted and/or trained for Apple, Adobe, Disney, Canon, Walmart and other companies.  He is also a writer, producer and photographer and is a Master Trainer for Apple's Authorized Training (AATC) program.

Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor is founder and Senior Creative Director at Digitla Spatula, a boutique motion graphics and video post production company based in Los Angeles. With over 25 years film and video experience, Steve's passion for creating compelling visuals have garnered him high profile clients like Sony, ESPN and BMW.