Desktop Video Studio Bible : Producing Video, DVD, and Websites for Profit

A detailed roadmap to setting up and operating your own desktop video studio, covering both the powerful new tools and radical new business models created by digital technology.

George Avgerakis was born in Trenton, New Jersey and educated in the public school system of Ewing Township. As an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, he taught film making under the guidance of fine artist/educator Henry Niese. Upon graduation, Mr. Avgerakis attended the London Film School, where he studied under film director Mike Leigh.

Mr. Avgerakis began his professional career in London, as a post-production scriptwriter, later moving to Princeton, New Jersey where he worked as a freelance film editor and director. He has lectured at London University, City University of New York, and at various seminars in the United States and abroad. After brief engagements as an art director, TV commercial producer, and corporate video manager, he co-founded Avekta Productions in 1982, establishing a studio in midtown Manhattan, for which he serves as V.P. Creative Director to this day.

Mr. Avgerakis has produced work for such clients as AOL-Time Warner, Phillips Petroleum, Forbes, Akzo Nobel, Brink's, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, and The American Museum of Natural History. He produced the first co-production between a corporation and the Public Broadcasting Network, and the first infomercial for Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.

A Contributing Editor to Videography and Digital Cinema magazines, Mr. Avgerakis has published an average of 5,000 words monthly since he began writing technical articles in 1990.

Mr. Avgerakis lives in Yonkers, New York, with his wife Maria. He is the father of Stephanie, a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a son, Alexander, a student at the Pratt Institute.