The Sony HXR-NX70U high-definition camera. Professional Podcasts has acquired two of these cameras for enhanced quality productions for its clients.

“We’ve always had a strong commitment to providing our clients with the right video production tools for their needs,” said Steve Lubetkin, chief videographer and managing partner of the firm. “These Sony cameras take us to the leading edge in video production capabilities, with broadcast and documentary video production tools that will clearly differentiate our work. We look forward to using the Sony HXR-NX70U cameras to help our clients tell their stories in sound and images for years to come.”

Audio Production Capabilities Also Expanded

Azden 330ULT features two lavalier microphones feeding a receiver attached to the video camera.

The firm has also expanded its investment in audio production tools with the acquisition of an

Azden 330ULT wireless lavalier mic/body pack system ideal for video interviews, and a set of four Vocopro lavalier/body pack sets to complement its eight-channel Vocopro UHF-8800 wireless microphone system that provides audio support for large seminar/conference panels.

The two new Sony HD cameras join a stable of HD video cameras that permits Professional Podcasts and the other Lubetkin Media Companies to produce multicamera videos at a fraction of the typical costs for such videos.

For more information about the Lubetkin Media Companies and its Professional Podcasts video production division, please call +1-856-751-5491 or email steve@professionalpodcasts.com.

A montage of cicada imagery is available for license from Lubetkin Communications, and can be previewed in the player below. Please contact the company to discuss licensing the images for commercial use.

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The Sony HVR-M10 can record and play HD video tapes.

High Definition Video Tape Conversion Capability

We’ve added the ability to convert high-definition videotapes (HDV) in the MiniDV format, with a Sony HVR-M10 professional tape deck. This deck enables us to transfer for digital editing high definition video — at up to 1080p resolution — from MiniDV tapes produced on prosumer and professional HD video cameras. Videographers can call on us to convert their HD MiniDV tapes into digital video files editable on nonlinear editing systems like Final Cut Pro or Sony Vegas.

The Rapco Press Box delivers broadcast quality audio to up to eight users at your seminar or press event.

Audio feed distribution for broadcast news media (“mult box”) rental

For our clients conducting seminars or other public events, in addition to offering a wide range of video and audio recording of the event, we can now provide support for your broadcast media guests through the availability of our new RapcoHorizon PB-8 Press Box, which allows us to deliver clean, high quality audio to as many as eight broadcast XLR output connectors.

Both of these new services are available to clients at an attractive cost. Please email or call our office to get more information.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – Monday November 5, 2012: Leaders of Congregation Mikveh Israel gathered with videographer Steve Lubetkin to celebrate the two JASPER Awards won by videos Lubetkin produced for the historic synagogue. From left: Rabbi Albert Gabbai, spiritual leader of Congregation Mikveh Israel; Lea Alvo-Sadiky, executive director of the synagogue; and Suzanne Levy-Polikoff, daughter of Leon Levy and organizer of the video tribute to him; and Lubetkin.

Updated 11/5/2012 to include photo of  awards ceremony at Mikveh Israel.

CHERRY HILL, NJ – October 15, 2012 – For the second straight year, documentary videos produced by Cherry Hill, NJ-based Lubetkin Global Communications have been recognized with JASPER Awards from the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association (JSPRAA).  The 2012 awards are the fifth and sixth JASPERs the firm has won for its audio and video podcast productions. 

The firm won a Gold JASPER Award in the Television/Video Documentary (10-30 minutes) category for its video tribute, “Leon Levy Honored by Congregation Mikveh Israel,” produced to honor Levy, president of the Philadelphia-based congregation, the second oldest synagogue in North America, for more than 30 years. The video was shown at Levy’s retirement gala at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, which was attended by 300 guests including the late US Sen. Arlen Specter and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.

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The firm earned a Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video TV Special Programming category for a documentary about Congregation Mikveh Israel’s dedication of a new Torah scroll. The video captures the special “siyyum” ceremony to mark the completion of the scroll by a special scribe known as a sofer and includes interviews with the sofer, remarks by the synagogue’s rabbi, Rabbi Albert Gabbai, and shows scenes from the celebration.

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DVDs of the videos are available for purchase in the Lubetkin Communications online store.

The JASPER awards were presented to Lubetkin Global Communications at JSPRAA’s awards dinner at the Robert B. Meyner Reception Center at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, Monmouth County, on October 12.

“This recognition of the quality of our video productions is especially meaningful to our firm because I did not enter the documentary video field through traditional film school training and apprenticeship,” said Steve Lubetkin, director and videographer for the two videos. “The composition and imaging skills I learned from my father Maurice ‘Murray’ Lubetkin – a professional photographer and photography instructor at Ft. Monmouth — coupled with my broadcast production experience from my years in radio, gave me the tools I needed to grow our successful documentary capabilities. The Internet makes it possible to gain wide audiences for documentary video and audio programs like the ones we produced for Congregation Mikveh Israel.”

In 2011, Lubetkin won Silver JASPER Awards in the Television/Video Documentary (10-30 minutes) category for its video documentary produced for The Pines at Whiting, a continuing care retirement community in the Whiting section of Manchester Township, Ocean County; and in the Television/Video TV Special Programming category for its promotional video prepared on behalf of the 2011 American Transplant Congress, a joint event of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation held in Philadelphia.

In 2008, Lubetkin Communications won a Silver JASPER Award for podcast audio programs it produced for NAPL, a global printing and graphic communications trade association, and in 2009 it shared a Silver JASPER Award with Take This Journey, another Cherry Hill-based video firm, for a video documentary, “Touching People’s Lives,” for the Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey.

About JSPRAA

In existence since 1965, the Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association has grown into the Central New Jersey area’s largest communications association, with members from the advertising, graphic design, marketing, and public relations professions. It established the JASPER Awards in 1974 to honor excellence in communications. More information is at http://www.jspraa.org/.

About Lubetkin Global Communications

Lubetkin Global Communications is a diversified communications and public relations counseling firm. Since 2005, its Professional Podcasts division has produced news and documentary style video, audio, and other multimedia content, and provides podcasting services for corporations and professional organizations. The firm advises clients about the effective integration of social media, like audio and video podcasts and blogs (online journals) into their public relations and communications outreach, to facilitate two-way communications with customers, employees, and others.  The firm also provides executive training and coaching in presentation skills and news media interviewing. More information is available at http://www.lubetkin.net/.

News Release

CHERRY HILL, NJ – July 26, 2012 – Lubetkin Global Communications LLC, the Cherry Hill-based audio and video documentary production company, has won an Astra Award from the New Jersey Communications, Advertising, and Marketing Association (NJCAMA). The award is the sixth honor the firm has earned for its multimedia productions since its founding in 2004.

Members board the bus for Burlington County Chamber of Commerce economic development tour

Lubetkin Global Communications won a Bronze ASTRA award  in the “Video longer than three minutes” category for “Burlington County Chamber Members Learn about County Economic Development,” a video report it produced for the Burlington County Chamber of Commerce. The Astra award was presented at NJCAMA’s awards dinner at Jasna Polana in Princeton on July 25.

The report, featuring video recorded during the Chamber’s economic development bus tour of Burlington County last August, includes voice over by Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Lubetkin Global Communications, and comments by leaders at several business establishments visited on the tour.

“It’s tremendously gratifying to have NJCAMA’s jury of professional communicators recognize our video production,” said Lubetkin. “Producing high quality video for the web that tells an organization’s story vividly, with images of its activities, is no longer expensive or difficult to do. Producing radio and TV style content for the Internet can help organizations reach a worldwide audience cost-effectively. Nothing is more valuable for raising an organization’s visibility in a Google search than creating high-quality video and audio news programming on a regular basis.”

This is Lubetkin’s second ASTRA Award. In 2010, the firm received a Silver ASTRA award for a series of business-to-business audio podcasts produced for The ACE Group, a global insurer-reinsurer.

The firm has also won four JASPER Awards from the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association (JSPRAA).

In 2011, it won a Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video Documentary (10-30 minutes) category for its video documentary produced for The Pines at Whiting, a continuing care retirement community in the Whiting section of Manchester Township, Ocean County; and a Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video TV Special Programming category for its promotional video prepared on behalf of the 2011 American Transplant Congress, a joint event of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation held in Philadelphia.

In 2008, Lubetkin Communications won a Silver JASPER Award for podcast audio programs it produced for NAPL, a global printing and graphic communications trade association, and in 2009, it shared a JASPER Award for a video documentary with Take This Journey LLC, another Cherry Hill video firm, for a program produced for Samost Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Southern New Jersey.

About NJCAMA

The New Jersey Communications, Advertising and Marketing Association (NJ CAMA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1986. Its mission is to support a community of creative and business professionals with programs and resources that continually improve the effectiveness and integrity of communications, delivered through advertising, marketing programs, public relations and other tactical efforts. More information is at http://www.njcama.org/.

The ASTRA Awards give smart creative professionals an unprecedented opportunity to showcase what they do best – inform, persuade, inspire. It also provides a venue to share that work with peers. Through the ASTRA Awards, the New Jersey Communications, Advertising and Marketing Association (NJ CAMA) recognizes the top tier of the region’s marketing and communications work. This work runs the gamut from print and web design to broadcast and social media to envelope-pushing marketing and public relations.

“Steve Lubetkin was podcasting when you were scratching on cave walls. With seven years in the field, he is the “go-to” guy for questions about audio and video podcasting with a string of awards to show for his work,”  the Business Journal noted in citing Steve’s work.

The top projects were chosen by a panel comprised of independent judges and Business Journal staff based on how creatively the projects leverage social media to accomplish a business purpose. Winners will also be profiled in a special supplement on March 23 and honored at a cocktail reception on April 5 at National Mechanics in Old City. At the cocktail event, special awards will be revealed for Overall Excellence, Community Service, and People’s Choice, the later of which will be determined by an online reader poll starting March 23.

PRSA Philadelphia held a luncheon to honor holders of the "Accredited in Public Relations" (APR) credential, featuring a panel of chapter members who are APRs and members of the PRSA College of Fellows. From left, John Moscatelli, APR, Fellow, PRSA; Anne Sceia Klein, APR, Fellow, PRSA; Steve Lubetkin, APR, Fellow, PRSA; and Anthony Fulginiti, APR, Fellow, PRSA, who served as panel moderator. Photo courtesy Jerry Klein, Anne Klein Communications Group. Used by permission.

UPDATED 10/30/2011: Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Lubetkin Global Communications joined other members of the PRSA College of Fellows at PRSA Philly on Thursday, October 27  in recognizing and welcoming newly accredited members of the Philadelphia chapter. Steve and the other Fellows served on a panel discussing corporate and organizational trends in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The luncheon at the Union League Club in Philadelphia featured a panel discussion moderated by Anthony J. Fulginiti, APR, Fellow PRSA, Professor of Public Relations at Rowan University and included two other Philadelphia chapter fellows:

Anne Sceia Klein, APR, Fellow PRSA, President, Anne Klein Communications Group
John Moscatelli, APR, Fellow PRSA, Former COO, Anne Klein Communications Group

Manchester Township, New Jersey, USA - Thursday November 3, 2011: Members of the production team assembled with the 2011 JASPER Award presented to PROFIT Communications and Lubetkin Global Communications for the 10-minute documentary video about The Pines at Whiting Continuing Care Retirement Community. The firms received the award from the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association. From left: Steve Lubetkin of Lubetkin Global Communications; Deborah L. Israel, president and ceo, PROFIT Communications; Charity Roszel; Bill Janson, president, The Pines at Whiting; Mary Jane Ousley; and Paulette Kaufman, director of sales and marketing, The Pines at Whiting.

Cherry Hill, NJ-based Lubetkin Global Communications has won two 2011 JASPER Awards for its video productions from the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association (JSPRAA).  The awards are the third and fourth JASPERs the firm has won for its audio and video podcast productions.

The firm won a Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video Documentary (10-30 minutes) category for its video documentary produced for The Pines at Whiting, a continuing care retirement community in the Whiting section of Manchester Township, Ocean County.

In collaboration with PROFIT Communications of Blue Bell, PA, Lubetkin Communications interviewed residents at the retirement community, who explained in their own words why prospective new residents should seriously consider moving to the community while they can enjoy activities and amenities there, rather than waiting until a health crisis forces them to choose a nursing care facility under emergency circumstances. The 11-minute video has been viewed more than 1,000 times. It can be seen on The Pines at Whiting’s website at http://thepinesatwhiting.org/, or on Lubetkin Communications website at http://wp.me/p10SEo-Nt.

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“The interviews we conducted of both new and longtime residents succeeded in capturing a very real snapshot of the dilemma facing today’s senior adults relative to how long do they wait to make changes in their living arrangements, and how best to make these decisions…independently or as a family. Their openness and honesty was very touching and struck those emotional chords,” explained PROFIT President Debbie Israel.

Lubetkin Communications also won a Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video TV Special Programming category for its promotional video prepared on behalf of the 2011 American Transplant Congress, a joint event of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation held in Philadelphia earlier this year. The video, viewed online more than 350 times, featured sights and sounds of Philadelphia interspersed with information about the medical conference, designed to create enthusiasm for the event and its location. The video, produced on behalf of Mt. Laurel-based Association Headquarters, which manages the medical conference for the two organizations, can be viewed on the Lubetkin Communications website at http://wp.me/p10SEo-RK.

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“The video Lubetkin Global Communications produced helped promote the sights and sounds of Philadelphia to the medical and healthcare professionals who are prospective attendees for the Congress, generating both excitement for the historic and cultural opportunities Philadelphia offers as well as the high caliber scientific presentations that are also important to our conference-goers,” said Linda Woody, communications manager at Association Headquarters, which managed the American Transplant Congress.

The JASPER awards were presented to Lubetkin Global Communications at JSPRAA’s awards dinner at the Robert B. Meyner Reception Center at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, Monmouth County, on October 14.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be recognized for a third and fourth time by our peers in the advertising and public relations communities for our content creation work with clients and partners — especially for meaningful projects like these two,” said Lubetkin. “The Internet’s ability to serve as a broadcast platform for audio and video programs means the video documentary format can move far beyond the traditional TV screen or movie theater, making these productions highly accessible — and easily affordable — for organizations of all sizes to tell their stories to interested worldwide audiences.”

In 2008, Lubetkin Communications/Professional Podcasts won a Silver JASPER Award for podcast audio programs it produced for NAPL, a global printing and graphic communications trade association, and in 2009 it shared a Silver JASPER Award with Take This Journey, another Cherry Hill-based video firm, for a video documentary, “Touching People’s Lives,” for the Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey.

About JSPRAA

In existence since 1965, the Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association has grown into the Central New Jersey area’s largest communications association, with members from the advertising, graphic design, marketing, and public relations professions. It established the JASPER Awards in 1974 to honor excellence in communications. More information is at http://www.jspraa.org/.

Rising Sun Lodge No. 15, F. & A.M., the largest Masonic Lodge in New Jersey, meets regularly on the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month at Haddonfield Masonic Temple, on Kings Highway. Primarily representing the communities of Haddonfield, Haddon Heights, Haddon Township, and Cherry Hill, Rising Sun Lodge draws members from throughout South-Central Jersey, from Philadelphia to the shore, and from Trenton to Vineland. Rising Sun Lodge can be reached via the internet at risingsunlodge.org, by e-mail at secRSL15@aol.com, or by telephone at 856-428-4193.

Howard Yermish, left, and Sandy Spadaro pose with Howard's iPad2 featuring Steve Lubetkin. Hey, someone had to make the photograph!

Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Lubetkin Global Communications and its award-winning podcast production arm, Professional Podcasts, will join Sandy Spadaro of SS Marketing Solutions and Howard Yermish of HowardYermish.com LLC as a panelist on the Philadelphia Business Journal’s “Social Media Crash Course,” on July 28 at the Enterprise Center on the campus of Burlington County College from 8 a.m. to noon.

Learn how to harness the power of social networking and integrate it into your marketing plan. Steve will discuss “Creating Video, Audio, and Photos for the Internet.”

Joining Steve on the panel, and their topics, are: