Freelance Editing

At the moment on weekends and Evenings I am editing a lot of corporate, YouTube and Broadcast shows. I am also working on an Arabic/English show using Avid mainly running the media of a LaCie Drive via AMA. I am also creating some graphics in after effects for the shows.

Leopard Films Workflow

Leopard was shooting three different productions in a time scale of 6 months, which meant planning the work flow and how it was going to run was key for production to run smoothly down the line. There were a lot of meetings discussing the work flow to establish if it was best to edit in native resolution or 15:1 My idea was to go for DNXHD36 as it gives a HD picture while taking up less space than native. The agreed work flow was to go from Native resolution to 15: 1 resolution then upon completion of the show. The final sequence would get relinked via AMA to replace the 15:1 media to Native resolution then transcode the final sequence to DNX 185 to be ready for online. This does two things: • Saves a lot of space on the Edit share (storage space) • Runs the media more smoothly on the Avid machines • Faster exports for viewings Just to note briefly Leopard is running 9 edit suites with an Edit share and a new archiving media solution called the Matrix Store to store the native rushes on to.

Leopard Films conversion to HD and Workflow

I have accepted the offer from Leopard Films; Leopard is perhaps most famous for Cash in the Attic , but it does other variety of shows and has made dramas too.
I am now overlooking the postproduction and managing the edit assistants. In my first few weeks I have set up various seminars and presentations to talk to the production teams about HD, Tapeless Workflow best practices. The team and I have set up various checkpoints and milestones to track the progress of our conversion to HD and Tapeless.
That means managing, consolidating and Offsite storing many tapes and digi-betas and when I say many I mean 15 thousand to be precise
We are running on Avid Media Composer 5 now. I am still working on what kit is best to buy with the budget given to Edit in HD more updates on that soon.