Education
In 1990, Budnitz graduated with an honors degree in Art and began working on two films, 93 Million Miles from the Sun and the 13-minute-long Ultraviolet.
In 1990, Budnitz graduated with an honors degree in Art and began working on two films, 93 Million Miles from the Sun and the 13-minute-long Ultraviolet.
He also owns and runs Budnitz Bicycles in Burlington, Vermont. Early career
Artforum magazine hailed 93 Million Miles as "one of the best films of 1997."
Budnitz used Adobe Premiere to edit a full-length film on a Macintosh computer. In 1997, Budnitz started recording the sound for a 16mm film on MiniDisc, a new audio format that he encountered while on a trip to Tokyo.
He hacked and customized the MiniDisc players to accommodate time-code, specifically for film and sound recording.
This soon led him to found his third company, minidisco.com, which sold his reconfigured MiniDisc players on the Internet. By 2001 minidisco.com had become a $10 million business, running on home computers and using software Budnitz created.