Details.

...for people who want to dig a little deeper.

How do we work...

Together remotely?

Drafts are uploaded to a private viewing area..

Once I have something for you to view, I send a rough cut of back to you for direction or approval.

This gives YOU a place to comment, view, and approve.

This also helps both of us keep track of decisions made along the way. This does away with the messy, hard-to-follow email threads!

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Editing Services

Service Areas. Software. Payments.

100% Remote Service

As long as you don't need me on-site to film your project, I can produce and deliver from my studio in the Midwestern USA.

What software do you use.

DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.6. With a background in Final Cut Pro X. Resolve by Blackmagic Design is becoming the defacto for big budget TV and Film due to its Cut, Edit, Fusion FX, Color, Audio and Delivery tools built into one powerful all-encompassing tool set. Cool feature for you? It allows me to push daily progress straight from my desk to the cloud for you to view and comment on!

Do You Take Venmo, Zelle, Chase-Pay?

Why yes, funny you should ask. I also invoice via Freshbooks which allows for debit or cc payments. And I can take cards over the phone through Chase Business. I try to make every step of the process quick and painless for us both.

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Additional Particulars

People might want to know...

Output Formats

In general, people want their final file in either 2k, or 4k [if source files were 4k footage]

Commercial, TV, Movie, Online computer screen, projector viewing - output as a .mov or .mp4 file

Youtube 16:9 (horizontal) YouTube 720p/1080p/1440p/2160p

Youtube Short 9:16 (vertical)

Instagram post (square)

Instagram reel (vertical)

Vimeo 720p/1080p/2160p

Twitter 720p/1080p

Dropbox Replay 720p/1080p/2160p

Delivery Method

These days just about any massive sized video can be delivered via dropbox.

A recent set of footage for a client, was a whopping 206GB 's and was transferred to me via MASV in 8-10 hrs.

This is still faster than Fed Ex'ing a file, on a thumb-drive, in an envelope. Dropbox drove clients nuts, I've streamlined that with a file transfer portal easy for you to use, and that better optimizes upload speeds. Fast for you to get footage to me, fast to get the final back to you.

Note that - uploading it to social media needs to happen on your end. Youtube, for ex, can take 2-4-6-8 hours to fully receive and process into SD & HD versions. That's downtime, (logged into your google account) that is probably not a good use of your hard-earned money.

Check-Ins

Typically - once gathering your requirements, and receiving your footage (via my dropbox account) I send a rough cut of a small section of your video, back to you for direction or approval.

Those comps will arrive via Frame.io. Studios use this tool while in film production to quickly get a mockup version of a daily shoot back into the director's hands before the next day's filming.

This gives YOU a private and efficient place to view, comment and approve.

This also helps both of us keep track of decisions made along the way. I do try to discourage the never-ending email threads, notes get missed and the lack of a viewable file make it hard to figure out what specifically a client was referring to.