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Import and combine clips into a cohesive timeline where dead spaces are cut, and highlights are kept.

Adding effects such as putting your logo on object, window, plane, building, billboard. This can be something like taking a simple photo and adding movement, overlaying multiple images together and adding light leaks, focus blurs and interesting framing to make the most of it.

We can add titles, intros, outros -- and scene transitions.

We can take an interview setting where someone is talking, and intersperse stock footage to make it more interesting and illustrative (we call that b-roll).
We license oodles of stock footage, sound effects, and music scores across many services. We have made many a video, even told entire life-stories for people, starting with next to nothing.

Compile lots of footage from various sources you've collected:

These are typically photos & videos of various shapes and sizes, taken at various times. Often over years. We'll string all of that together, add music, streamline even improve the look of photos.
Often includes clean-up....say you snapped a photo with your phone, of a picture in a frame on a wall - we can crop in, clean up add a background around it, put it into a montage.

So many times when on camera, a person will look down at their notes..but in the final, you don't see it. Why?

It's just a matter of going back through the edit a 3rd, 4th, 5th time and cutting at the frame right before the eyes look down.

Oftentimes this comes up in interviews - you may have footage where it took a while to get the right response from the person in front of the camera, maybe it wasn't natural the first few times, or they cleared their throat, picked their nose, whatever! Let's clean that up for you!

We can take voice recordings of you explaining something and then add your photos and videos over that.

OR we can find stock photo or video footage that emphasizes your points and intersperse that with your voice.

Note - can also be an audio recording, with just your audio and 100% stock footage video throughout. Feel free to add charts and graphs.

• COLOR CORRECTING - this is the basic task of converting a video to a better color space, bringing over or under exposed film in line, removing any glaring issues.
• COLOR GRADING - making it really pop.
• ADDING A LOOK - not always a requirement, but can cause people to wonder if you hired a movie crew to come do your event. This also plays out when trying to get different scenes to share the same feel.

Often, the above is NOT a priority - if there are a lot of changing lighting moments every few seconds in a long series of clips, this eats up a lot of time - let us know if this is important to you.

For those on the Independent Film directing side of things..I check my color on an Eizo CG2700x (color correct/holds a 3D lut/direct to source) The monitor is connected direct from Resolve via BMD UltraStudio Monitor 3G) and self-calibrates weekly. From there I can view and swap between color spaces on the fly (Rec 709, Rec 2020, P3, Adobe RGB (because I print for fun!) sRGB (when working on something for the web).


My studio can be adjusted to simulate various viewing environments so that the edit is colorized, while understanding what your audience will see.
Next to the editing studio is an adjacent 6 seat theatre where I often preview edits.

My 2 LG 4k monitors are calibrated via DisplayCal with Calibrite software.

• Mix the volume levels (voice is too quiet, something else is too loud)
• Remove or minimize background hummm - air conditioners, building, traffic noises
• De-ess the voice, those "ssss" sounds sometimes sound so essey.
• Remove or minimize mouth clicking
• Cut out another persons voice completely (as long as you're not talking over each other)
• Remove or minimize breathiness
• Limit clipping (where audio or voice volume was too loud into the input mic - and caused popping or cutting out of the sound)
• Remove or minimize "plosives" - excess use of words with "p" throughout
• Remove or minimize Reverb - typically caused by hard walls bouncing sound back at the microphone
• Level the voice - where a person is sometimes speaking at the mic and other times turning their head away causing sound to be up and down.
• Voice deepener - especially helpful with nasally tones.
• Add body, air or clarity to speaking voices