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Don Trepczyk

Don Trepczyk

Video Technician

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Y-4 Journey Engineer at 20th Century Studios, a Walt Disney Company

  • Education

    • Milwaukeee Area Technical College

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      Associate degree in Electrical Technology Communication TV Broadcast

      Activities and Societies: Student run PBS station

  • Experience

    • Technicolor Video Cassette

      Aug 1981 - Oct 1986
      Video Technician

      Broadcast and consumer equipment maintenance related to VHS and Betamax dubbing for the home movie rental market.Originally was a division by Vidtronics until the acquisition by Technicolor.

    • The Video Tape Company

      Oct 1986 - Mar 1991
      Video Engineer

      Broadcast equipment preventive maintenance and operations support.

    • Film-Video Masters

      Mar 1991 - Sept 1992
      Director of Engineering

      Supported film chain bays (telecine) and tape machine room. Implemented relocation of company to new building in Hollywood.

    • Paskal Video

      Sept 1992 - Aug 1994
      Director of Engineering

      Involved in relocation of Film-Video Masters from North Hollywood to Hollywood with the company name changing to Paskal Video.After initial shake down, continued with various post production engineering duties involved with technical support in film and broadcast hardware plus workflow creation.

    • Todd-AO Video Services

      Aug 1994 - Mar 1997
      Director of Engineering

      Paskal Video (aka Film-Video Master) was acquired by Todd-AO Video Services.Duties included annual management budget support for Engineering. Continued film/telecine and tape machine technical support.Design and implementation of expansion projects.

    • Vidfilm

      Mar 1997 - Feb 2002
      Systems/Film Engineer

      Support for SD and HD telecine chains (e.g. Rank Mark 3C & Philip Spirit DataCine) with DaVinci color correction. Worked closely with operations to resolve technical issues related to SDI Video and Audio workflows.

    • Technicolor

      Feb 2002 - Nov 2015
      Sr Prod Sys Engr

      Creating and testing new workflows in digital media which includes baseband and filebased systems (e.g. Clipster/Fuze, Amberfin & Digital Rapids/StreamZ):- Created mezzanine-level programming media files (J2K-AS02) to be aired on HBO- Testing mezzanine files (J2K-Op1A) for WB TV archival content preservation project - Using ProRes source files to encode and deliver IMF test files for Disney following basic spec’s from SMPTE 2067-20 (IMF App #2)Documentation of various processes and workflows for Operations, Engineering and On-BoardingMaintaining Production and Data Systems equipment.Annual Academy DVD Screener Project. Delivery of feature discs for academy member review creating ripped watermarked discs from Rimage duplicators and Civolution WM servers.Designed and implemented the relocation of the Glendale facility to Burbank which included QC Bays, Machine Room and Data Center. Show less

    • 20th Century Fox Film

      Mar 2016 - Mar 2019
      Y-4 Journeyman Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • 2K & 2K Plus Engineering Course

      DaVinci Academy
      Sept 2002

    • Rank Mark 3C/Turbo Training Course

      Cintel International Ltd
      Mar 1993

    • VTR (BVH-2000) Instructional Program

      Sony Broadcast
      Feb 1986

    • Fundamentals of AutoCAD Course

      CAD Institute
      Sept 2006