Claude Booth

Owner Broadcast Video Engineer Designer at Claude Booth Company
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

May 1991 – Present (17 years 3 months)

Broadcast video equipment repair and installation, facilities design, Edit bays, Machine rooms, DVD authoring suites, Animation work stations.
My company is 17 years old and back through the years I have achived as a small company many things. The best one happened lately. I took a department with in a company and gave birth to a brand new company through an engineering project and facilities build. I've had the pleasure of representing my company to Warner Bros mastering for over a decade. Turner Entertainment I designed the first practical and portable QC station. Coppos films I designed the production facility. Ground Zero advertising the dieing swan edit system became a Phoenix, repackaged state of the art. Spinach Productions Designed and Built by Claude Booth a full HD system. I candy interactive redesigned editbay and entire system. In 17 years there literally are 100's of projects in my portfolio and 1000's of repaired VTR's, Cameras, Video Systems, and Monitor's.

Senior Video Engineer at AME Inc
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; AME; Broadcast Media industry)

December 1985 – May 1991 (5 years 6 months)

Senior engineer in charge of post production and picture quality for the entire operation, five companies. My speciality at this company was monitor calibration and systems modifications to multiple standard and format monitors. During this time I had the pleasure of working with on a personal basis many famous production companies, with directors as clients, and colorists as coworkers. It was my understanding of colorimetry and color rendition from film to tape that saved the company tremendous sums of money and gained a well earned reputation for AME as a quality film to tape house. I Executed facilities design and installations in team enviorment. Ame was a employee owned company and I was involved at just after start up to final sale.

Senior Video Engineer at The Vidtronics Company
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

February 1978 – December 1985 (7 years 11 months)

Senior video engineer in charge of postproduction monitors and colorimetry. Large company who's motto was " the greatest name in video tape " and that was and is very true. If you look in video engineering books of the pioneers of this industry you will read the names of the people I worked with here. This was my first taste of a professional post production house and as part of the engineering team I was given the responsibility of all in house monitors. I sat down with Sony and Minolta companies and consulted in the design, test, and perfected the first color analyzer. Vidtronics was a very special company we as engineers where always encouraged to excell.
I was so very lucky to be one of the babies of The Vidtronics Company.