Editing, tools and teaching
Who I am, what I do and why editing is about meaning rather than effects.
Four jobs, one person
What I do every day
The short version: I cut video. Podcasts, travel, vlogs, talking heads, ads. What matters is not effects but order — where to cut, where to let it breathe, and what to throw away so the viewer stays past the second minute. Cutting is not all of it. Color and grading. Sound: cleaning up voice recordings, working with any microphone and any quality of source, sound design and mixing in Reaper. Animation and graphics in After Effects.
Year by year
More than twenty thousand hours went into a timeline — eight years of continuous editing, if you count eight hours a day with no weekends. It did not start as a profession but as curiosity: to see how raw footage turns into something people watch to the end. Then came the jobs, then the big projects where editing stopped being one person’s work. After that it went in circles: every repeating chore became a tool, and every repeating question became a lesson. Now I do all of it at once — edit, build tools, teach, and take apart other people’s pipelines.
What comes out of it is in the works, the tools I built for my own routine are in the software, and the craft behind them is in the courses.
A working week, not a list
Premiere Pro
After Effects
DaVinci Resolve
Reaper
VS Code
- Editing and direction
- Colour correction
- Grading
- Sound design
- Voice cleanup
- Audio mixing
- Motion and graphics
- Episode structure
- Editing pipelines
- Working with teams
- Teaching editors
- Export and delivery