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Mike Woodworth - Founder - Divergent Media

On January 3rd, Divergent Media released ScopeBox, the first ever high-end suite of Mac-based image monitoring, capture, and analysis software for video production and post production. This unique solution replaces thousands of dollars of traditional hardware waveforms, vectorscopes, preview monitors and direct-to-disk recording tools.  To learn more about ScopeBox, check out the website.

Mike Woodworth founded Divergent Media in 2001 to focus on post production consulting services for the television and film industry. He designed and oversaw the post production workflow for several long-running Oxygen Media reality tv shows including Women & the Badge and Real Weddings from The Knot. He has edited shows that have appeared on numerous cable networks such as TLC, The History Channel, Discovery and Discovery Health. He served as technical supervisor on the Sundance Award winning documentary MurderBall and HBO's Left of the Dial .  Additionally, he has worked as a colorist and editor on many documentary films.

He has been writing programs for twenty years; for the last six he has specialized in video applications, machine vision, robotics, and asset management. Divergent Media has designed custom applications for companies such as College Sports TV and Oxygen Media and for managing the post production pipelines of films such as MurderBall.

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Steve Kilisky - Senior Group Product Manager Adobe Production Studio

With the announcement that Adobe will be bringing the entire Production Studio to Intel Macs later in 2007, we thought it would be good to go to the source and learn what this means.

Steve Kilisky is Senior Group Product Manager for Adobe Systems Incorporated, where he is responsible for Adobe After Effects marketing. Kilisky joined Adobe in 1995, bringing a diverse background that included more than 10 years of experience in the video production, post production and computer graphics industries. His expertise and experience has helped to facilitate the merging of computer and video technologies.

Prior to joining Adobe, Kilisky spent six years as a product manager at Abekas Video Systems, and has also worked for Cubicomp Corp. and Varitel Video. He holds an A.S. degree in Telecommunications Technology from Napa Valley College, a B.A. in Broadcasting & Communication Arts from San Francisco State University and an MBA in Marketing from California State University, Hayward.

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