Gary Lieberman

Gary Lieberman is a Broadcast Production and Post Production Professional with over 30 years of industry experience.

Early Years:  Fresh from graduate school at The University of Kansas, Gary began working on newscasts in Topeka, Kansas and was soon promoted to weekend newscast director.  Two years later he moved to Atlanta and worked at WAGA-TV, then a CBS affiliate. While there, he quickly was promoted to Staff Director and not only directed evening newscasts but pioneered post-production at the station, winning 4 Emmys.  His radical design for a new live control room is still in use two decades later. 

    In 1988, folks at Ampex Corporation, the original inventors of video tape, enticed Gary to leave his staff position and explore a career as an independent video editor and trainer.  Ampex sent Gary around the world to demonstrate and teach their post production equipment.  Extended jobs at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, post production houses in Athens, Greece, and movie and TV studios in Munich, Germany highlighted his early years as a freelancer.

By 1995, Gary landed an 2-year contract as the lead editor for the Atlanta Olympic Committee.  During that time, former product managers at Ampex had moved to the Abekas Corporation, leaders in DVE technology.  Gary was commissioned to develop demonstration materials and help launch a worldwide product tour, introducing the Dveous digital video effects device.  To date, the Dveous is the best selling DVE of all times.

In 1997, in response to a great need to share end-user experience on Dveous and Accom's Axial Edit Controller, Gary co-founded Editsuite.com, an early example of a social-networking website.  Along with co-founder and Axial trainer John Henkel, Editsuite.com grew to attract over 1000 daily editors and technical directors.  Today, Editsuite.com serves as a meeting place for Technical Directors and  is sponsored by Sony Corporation, Thomson/Grass Valley, Abekas, and Snell & Wilcox; All broadcast industry leaders.

In 2001, Gary transitioned to non-linear edit systems, choosing the higher end compositing systems by Discreet and Autodesk.  As a Discreet Smoke freelancer, he worked primarily on network promotions for CNN and The Weather Channel.

             Today, with the accelerated progress of Apple and Adobe products, Gary works almost exclusively on High Definition projects using After Effects and Final Cut Pro applications and other tools in the Adobe Production Premium and Apple Final Cut Studio software bundles.  Along with the staff at ImageMaster Productions in Atlanta, he has developed competencies in Blu-ray disc development, DVD authoring, multi-camera editing, and Web streaming.

Training History:  Throughout his career, Gary has helped train editors and TD's at a wide variety of broadcast networks, cable networks, TV stations, post houses, ad agencies, corporate and government in-house facilities.   The list includes ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, Telemundo, USA Networks, MTV, KERA, WTTW, WAMI, Crawford Communications,  Editworks, Peachtree Post, DDB/Needham, Coca-cola, Delta, Lockheed, the CDC, NSA, Army Pentagon, and Navy in Norfolk and San Diego.  Courses include Ampex, Accom, Abekas, Sony, Chyron, and Autodesk/Discreet post production products.

Product Demonstration:  Demonstrated at 15 National Association of Broadcasters shows for Ampex, Accom, Abekas, Chyron (Jaleo Introduction), and Thomson.   Also, demonstrated at the International Broadcast Convention in Amsterdam, Switzerland and trade shows in Brasil and Austrailia.

Editing/Compositing: Productions in English, Greek, Spanish, & French.  On projects ranging from an hour long special on NBC to corporate message delivered via Internet and Blu-ray disc at ImageMaster in Atlanta.