DaVinci Artist/Editor

I’ve spent most of my career as an editor. These days I think of the work very differently than I did ten years ago.

What an editor can do now has expanded so far past what the title used to mean that the bar of expertise has to move with it. That’s the part that interests me.

DaVinci Resolve has brought a renewed love for the everyday work. Each time I sit down I make new discoveries that improve on what I’ve been doing for three decades — expanding what’s possible and pushing my ideas about how to distill and deliver the vision of the people I’m working with. Picture, color, sound, AI, and VFX stop being separate and start becoming a collective. Color informs edit informs sound informs VFX, and everything is brought closer together into a singular, accessible process. It’s deepened my respect for the skills, science, and artistry of the experts I work with in production and post — and inspires me to want to unify us, working together instead of sequentially.

It’s the closest the craft has come to feeling like a band jamming in a garage, sharing an artistic connection. I’ve spent my whole life dreaming of creating that way and it’s what I aspire to on every project.