Associate Producer/Video Editor Profile: Niel Loeb

Equipment:

• Power Mac 8100 - 82MB RAM
• Separate Hard Drive - 18 GB
• Beta tape deck and monitor
• Media 100 non-linear video editing system

Five most commonly used applications: Media 100, Adobe After Effects, SoundEdit 16, MoviePlayer, Adobe Photoshop

Overall role: "To put any video ACTION in the story onto our pages."

Daily duties:

• Reads in to find out what's going on in the world, at the network and on the site.
• Tracks down hard copy of video tape and transfers it to Beta standard.
• Feeds the Beta tape into the computer, saves it on the hard drive and compresses, edits and creates a QuickTime video. A 10-second piece of tape can be reduced from around 50MB in file size to about 400K.
• Capable of creating the same effects as a standard CMX post-production facility.

Personal stats:

• 34 years old
• Bachelor's degree in Radio, Television, Film from the University of Texas-Austin
• Niel has worked at CNN for 11 years. He spent his first two years at Headline News, first as a video journalist, then a production assistant and finally a writer before becoming a video editor/sound tech for seven years. After a one-year stint as CMX post-production editor, he joined CNN Interactive in August 1995 to upload stories and elements onto CompuServe. In November, he began editing the CNN "Time Capsule" CD-ROM on the Media 100, skills he brought back to the Web in January 1996.

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