CAPABILITIES

I cut my teeth editing on Final Cut Pro 7 prior to 2012. Currently, I’m proficient editing in Adobe Premiere and DaVinci Resolve with a cumulative 14 years experience. 

I'm at home refining interview footage and pacing ideas with audio/visual language. I find procedural methodology is vital to technical workflow, it's the backbone for creativity. From ingesting source media through finishing I have a mindset geared to iterative improvement. Both for refining my own process and adopting that of who's hiring me.

Here are a few high level points to give you an idea on my approach to the process of editing:

• Source Media: Templated local/cloud based source media organization tailored to the retrieval needs of various project types.
• Meta Tagging: For larger ongoing projects, this is a dynamic way to recall content based on project needs.
• Collaboration / File Exchange: Established workflow for sharing various content types with different contributors along the post journey.
• Conforming for color: I’m comfortable moving between Premiere and Resolve in early stages of an edit to accommodate color needs.
• Adobe Dynamic Linking: Familiar with best practices when linking between Adobe software. i.e. linked timelines vs. Essential Graphics Panel vs. versioned encodes 
• Templates: Folder Structure, Power Bins, Power Grades, Creative Cloud Libraries, and Presets galore. If I need to do something more than once I try to build structure around it.
• After Effects + DaVinci Resolve: Yes, definitely. There’s no substitute for Adobe After Effects and moving between the two is super important. Some versioned rendering is needed, but It can be worthwhile to have the benefits of each.
• Versioning: Special attention to version control whenever dealing with dailies selection, interview parsing, deliverables, and trimming b-roll. Iterative progress is important, particularly in on-going series.