Education

• B.A. Pacific Union College

Principle Research Interests

Stew Harty was an early adopter, in the late 1980’s, of the AVID digital editing system. After a brief time working as an editor and assistant editor, he started a business renting and providing training for the AVID systems. Clients included top Ad Agencies, Hollywood Studios, Television Networks and Independent Production companies. During that time he became the official trainer, and his facility became the official training site, for the Editors Guild. Stew Harty trained numerous assistant editors and editors on the AVID, many of them Emmy or Oscar winners accustomed to editing with film. In the early 1990’s, Stew Harty co-founded LA Digital, an AVID rental and post-production facility. The company went from just under a million dollars in sales in the first ten months to $12 million in gross revenue by the third year. The company started with two AVID’s and a 2500 square foot office and grew to over 100 AVID’s and three facilities strategically located throughout Los Angeles and San Francisco. Through this time Stew worked occasionally as an assistant editor and regularly as a trainer and consultant on numerous television shows and feature films. He worked on such television projects as Friends, ER, JAG, Drew Carey and The West Wing. He also worked on such feature film projects as LA Confidential, Dragonheart, The Rock and all three Matrix films.

Academic Interests/Research Area: 

• Post-Production
• Church Media
• Broadcast Television

E-mail: sharty@lasierra.edu
Phone: (951) 785-2620