Ben Lay

Ben Lay started in working in technical support for video post production for Digistor in Australia, supporting clients working on Avid, Final Cut Pro and Lightworks including Sound Firm and Spectrum Films at Fox Studios in Sydney, as well as many other post facilities in and around Sydney.

While at Digistor Ben lead the support and development of the Olympic Transition Device that has been integral to the broadcasting of the Olympic games and many other televised sporting events starting with the year 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Ben was also instrumental in developing Digitor's SANman products that were possibly the first shared storage solutions to be integrated with Final Cut Pro and Lightworks.

Ben left his position at Digistor to pursue a teaching and technical support position at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. While at the AFTRS Ben pushed the technology of the Editing department forward, replacing 16mm film cutting rooms with Avid Adrenaline, Avid Unity and Final Cut Pro, while teaching and supporting coursework that included 35mm feature style workflows, 2D and 3D VFX films and multi-camera studio based television shows.

Ben joined Goldcrest in 2007 supporting all aspects of Video Post production from Avid and Final Cut Pro offline cutting rooms and video tape operations to Quantel Pablo Color Correction and Quantel iQ Finishing.