Remote Video Edit Suite | Edinburgh

Our remote video edit suite at our Edinburgh office is now set up to adhere to social distancing measures. We now offer complete remote editing facilities that allow for a full face-to-face discussion. I can see my time as a remote video editor extending beyond the Covid-19 outbreak. The truth is its just a more efficient way of working that I think may well be here to stay for some time for a number of reasons.

The video editing process involves many sets of eyes and several layers to complete. It’s important for us to make the editing process as easy as possible for our clients, and this really makes it more convenient.

Often our clients want to discuss editing the flow or the impact can be a tricky conversation without looking at the video edit together. Often the editing of dialogue must navigate compliance. All of these elements means working with a video editor on the day, at the timer is essential to deliver a quick and effective film, without needly toing and froing…

+ Screencasting the live edit – timeline and output

Using Teamviewer we can review all the rushes together with a director or producer at home – in real-time

+ 2nd camera video chat over with Zoom / Skype / Facetime

We have our video chat set up to view the editor and monitors simultaneously so we’re always on the same page

+ Review changes with timecode for notes, review and download.

Our video edit clients include Boeing, Visit Britain and the UK Government.

Edinburgh Edit suite Specification 

  • imac 3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7
  • 32gb Memory
  • x3 27″ displays

The monitors have been colour calibrated with a Spyder Datacolour.

EIFF Trailer 2019

As a film festival trailer editor, it’s my 4th year working with the Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival. Editing the film festival trailer is a job I love – working with over 100 films and adding audio elements to make a super short highlights film.

Edinburgh Film Festival Trailer 2016

The Edinburgh Film Festival 2016 will take place between the 15th-26th of June, now in its landmark 70th edition the festival trailer brief was to include as many of the films as possible. It was cut in 4 days and I love the creativity of this type of fast paced job, where you’re collecting up all these films and create new meaning and association out of the clips. Hopefully it has a nice balance of fun and creativity and will encourage people to check out the festivals selection for 2016.

The project was edited on Final Cut Pro X and I was able to include 112 films (I think probably the most ever included in the EIFF trailer) and I confirmed everything to fit a 2.35 aspect ratio. I worked as the Digital content producer for the festival in 2011 and I know from experience what a hard, but incredibly rewarding job creating the trailer can be. 5 years ago things were alot harder with most of the films being a nasty mix of frame rates, aspect ratios, formats and codecs so made it a big editing challenge.

For the 2016 version the quality of the films and editing software allowed to to push passed technical issues much quicker, to get to the funs stuff – choosing and position clips including Trainspotting and childhood favourite E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. It’s a mountain of content to sift through and to cut films of these caliber down to a two or three shots is tricky. But my hope was to not choose really obviously shots and link them well where possible. Hopefully people like my toilet humour 😉