About the Reviewers

Tyler Knowles is a certified Final Cut Pro editor as well as an Apple certified trainer and technician.Tyler has over a dozen years of experience in digital video production and post-production.In six years as a professional living in Los Angeles, Tyler's editing work has been lent to five feature films, a children's television series, National commercial spots, music videos, student shorts, and numerous productions around California.Tyler is also noted as a Cinematographer, Sound Designer, Producer, and Director.Recently, Tyler directed an 87-minute mockumentary road trip mvie about two guys hauling a horse trailer full of beer across the United States entitled Go West Happy Cow.

David J. Smolar is an Apple-certified Final Cut Pro Editor and award-winning Producer with over 20 years' experience in digital media production, broadcasting, and production management. He has a B.A. from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Digital Visual Media from American University. As a grad student, David designed, opened, and managed American University's School of Communications' first Digital Video Editing Lab. He mastered his instructing skills by teaching nearly 50 undergrad and grad students Final Cut Pro. David's M.A. thesis documentary was the first in the school's history to be shot, edited, and output entirely in the digital realm.

David's early career began as an ngineer, roducer, and ssistant ditor for all-news WTOP while writing and reporting traffic and weather for Shadow Broadcasting. He spent over four years with Discovery Communications where, among other things, he supported executive producers on over 100 hours of programming, including the very popular series I Shouldn't Be Alive, A Haunting, and the history-making series of programs on the first tomb discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since King Tut was unearthed.He supported, reviewed and vetted programs for the Discovery, Science, Military, Times ID, and Discovery en Espa?ol channels.

Working for esteemed studios and from his home post-production studio, David crafted DVDs for industrial and government clients, wrote and produced a number of live musical performances, and trained non-technical clients in both Final Cut Studio and switching from a PC to a Mac. A member of AFTRA and the Screen Actors Guild, David appeared in the HBO series The Wire and VEEP along with a smattering of major studio films. In 2012, David designed the curriculum and lead classes for the DC-area MVI Media Academy, teaching anyone from any background everything about moviemaking.In May, he began work as a Quality Control Analyst for the new Verizon Digital Media Services group, helping create and maintain a fully-automated mass transform farm for major broadcasters, Hollywood studios, hotel chains, and international news conglomerates.