Editing


I have been editing since 1993 and professionally since 1995 and consider editing to be one of my strongest skills.
I have a talent for drawing connections between audio/visual elements.   Many of the clients I have worked with have been pleasantly surprised by my ability to get the most out of the footage and help further their story.
I am adept at working around problem areas and have a good sense of pacing.

I have used a variety of non-linear editing (NLE) software and learn new NLE software tools rapidly.    Some of the NLE software I have used includes:   Final Cut Pro, Media100, Avid Media Composer and Premiere.

I have worked with digital video in a variety of formats from MiniDV and DVCAM to high resolution uncompressed video as well as editing 16mm film.

I am comfortable working onsite using supplied equipment or freelancing from my home studio, working on a Mac or a PC.



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At HCC/TMIT I edited (using Final Cut Pro) various interview footage of healthcare leaders working towards improving the safety of healthcare, along with various 2D & 3D graphics and animation.    I performed both offline and online editing and output the clips in a variety of formats.

I captured footage off BETACAM, DVCAM, Mini-DV and various other sources. When offline editing, I would capture in low resolution, highly-compressed clips, then edited them together into an offline edit.   I, or someone else would then batch digitize all the footage at final resolution, adding the appropriate titles, etc.   Sometimes I would output time code burned clips for review and/or editing at our remote (CA) facility.

Since the owner was in a remote location, sometimes we would exchange the offline MP4 encoded clips, with a time code burn, along with Final Cut project files through our Internet connection.   On occasion we even initiated remote audio/video capture using the remote software Timbuktu.

Lastly, I would output final clips for the Web, DVDs, or VOB files used in our Macromedia Director presentations.   Between the 3 websites, there are over 540 video clips (half of those are password protected).   There are over 670 VOB video files embeded in various HCC Director presentations.




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I was the editor for the low-budget documentary short "Low Light" - about the making of the 54 Seconds song, "Blown Away", which made it into the 2003 SXSW Film festival (to be one of 150 films shown out of the more than 2,300 submitted).

The "Lowlight" short, was culled down from 50 hours of footage to a 19 or 20 minute rough cut, then trimmed down less than 8 minutes.    The majority of the recording sessions were not captured on tape.    As a result, the footage sessions in the short were actually recording sessions for diferent songs that I synced-up to the music in the documentary.

Greg Rhem, original programming manager for HBO and panelist for the Distributing Docs panel at SxSW 2003, had favorable comments regarding the editing of "Low Light".    The documentary can be found on the enhanced CD "Coma" from the band "54 Seconds".




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Also in 2002, I edited the narrative short, "UP", which played in multiple festivals, including the Ladyfest Film Showcase, Burbank's Method Fest and the Mercury Short Film Festival where it won a honorable mention.
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Working for the UT Department of Curriculum & Instruction - Systemic Research Collaborative for Education in Math & Technology (SYRCE)
I edited video for a project commissioned by a three million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.    I edited on a Media100 non-linear editing system that I researched & purchased.    I also started experimenting with Final Cut.