MARK KIRCHNER

I’m passionate about creating audio for picture. I have been involved in professional media production and post-production for the better part of my career, integrating years of hands-on audio post work with extensive experience in corporate program and project management.

Most recently I led efforts at Studio West in San Diego to increase their post-production studio revenue, and since 2010 the studio showed a 60% increase in this segment of the business income. Besides directing operations, I was able to spend a good portion of my time in session, working with agencies and film studio clients on post centric projects – almost always working to picture. This included extensive dialog recording and editing, sound design, significant music searching and editing, and stereo and surround mixing. The prep and wrap-up for these sessions often involved coordinating FTP exchange of OMF/AAF project files, ISDN interconnects for dialog looping sessions, encoding and format conversions of final mixes for delivery, and frequent restoration and repair of damaged or subpar audio elements.

While at Avid in the Bay Area I managed the Marketing Communications team that developed and produced all media for product rollouts, sales events, tradeshows and web streaming content between 1997 and 2002. This included the releases for Pro Tools HD and its line of five new hardware interfaces, the MBox and Digi 003 product lines, and the Nexus fibre channel shared storage platform among others. When we moved into our new Daly City facility in 2001, I worked directly with our VP of Facilities, Salter & Associates (acoustic consultants), and DPR Builders directing the design and build-out of our ten-room studio and edit facilities.

I’ve been involved with Avid end-user training and education since the program started in 2001, and I maintain my certification as an expert level instructor for Pro Tools and Media Composer. I’m extremely familiar with video editing workflows in Composer and Premiere, and the file interchange processes between them and Pro Tools (OMf/AAF). I’m also well versed in location sound recording, the mics and recorders used on the set, and the overall importance that properly captured location sound plays throughout the whole post process.

I thrive in fast paced dynamic environments, and I enjoy working with creative teams and the latest technology to deliver exceptional audio content - exceeding expectations, on budget, and always on schedule.