Diane is a 20 year veteran of video production and post production having worked in many capacities such as online assistant editor, Main and ISO operator, videotape playback, and post production supervisor, as well as having been a producer for digital visual effects and digital ink and paint. She is now an accomplished Apple Certified Trainer for Final Cut Pro editing software having served clients such as KTLA, CNN, the Associated Press, KGO-TV, and others in addition to teaching video operations for all of the major networks.  Extremely popular with her students, Diane is admired for her clarity of presentation and patient training methods.

Diane’s superb understanding of applications software and her clarity of presentation also make her an excellent tech writer with experience writing such as Quantel’s Q-Edit Pro, iLife and iWork Quick Start Guides for Apple’s High School Educator’s program, the Assimilate RealTime 2k playback system (Scratch), as well as Grass Valley’s NewsEdit system. She has also supported Diana Weynand’s book development for several of Apple’s Final Cut Pro books.  She is methodical, accurate, and extremely dependable.

Diane is a proud member of:
ACM (Association of Computer Machinery)
LA ACM-SIGGRAPH
Visual Effects Society
Digital Cinema Society