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Technical Skills

Avid Adrenaline / Avid Meridien / Apple Final Cut Studio 2 / Adobe Photoshop CS3 / Adobe After Effects / Filemaker Pro 8 / Apple Compressor / Mac OS X / Windows XP

Avid Certified User

Profile

Avid offline, reality TV and documentary editor

-Skilled at assimilating vast amounts of disparate information and distilling it into a great story
-Excellent flair for dialogue and dramatic story
-Wicked sense of humor and keen understanding of comedic timing
-Fast, efficient editing and trimming skills

Comprehensive knowledge of video and film workflow

-Highly skilled at logging and capturing from mini-DV, Beta SP, DVD, and digital sources
-Nearly obsessive organizing of media and project elements, including project templates, established backup and media handling procedures
-Comfortable with basic color correction and conforming to NTSC and PAL broadcast specifications
-Clear understanding or outputting of EDL's, transcoding and uprezzing, assemble and crash recording to tape, coding to Quicktimes for format conversion in Apple Compressor

Solid effects composition

- Fluid in 3D Warp, able to create a myriad of transitional, compositing and title effects within the Avid
- Comfortable creating my own graphic/matte elements in Photoshop and After Effects for import into the Avid
- Understand all import and export options and can troubleshoot problems with elements created outside the system
- Very efficient with the tools, able to save time in design and rendering
- Can "dreamscape" the looks and moves of an effect and execute them efficiently
- Understand nesting, 3D, advanced key framing, chroma keying, including Ultimatte and am familiar with the pain tool and most plug-in FX

Education

Video Symphony Institute of Post Production, Burbank Ca
Avid Professional Program

Experience

Editor/Producer, Face to Face International, Orange, CA - 2006 to present
Oversee production and editing of multiple teaching, informational and promotional media, including output to multiple distribution formats.

Editor, Project 503, Pronoya Productions, Los Angeles, CA - 2008
Edited stand alone narrative scenes from three projects in development - "Under the Pale Blue Sky", "Jackrabbit" and "Dinner at Six" - for pitching of films. Edited across three genres: drama, action and comedy.

Editor, Ross Medical, Madison Heights, MI - 2008
Edited two :30 second infomercial spots for regional campaign

Teacher, Vineyard Christian School, Newport Beach, CA -- 2004-2006
Worked with students to produce short film, Blind Mercy. DP'd the shoot and edited the short on FCP, including color correcting.