Working for years in television as an Assistant Editor has given me the opportunity to be a part of many exciting projects over my career. Always with an eye to improve the process and think of a more efficient workflow, I’ve learnt how to efficiently manage all the data that comes with large television programs, from the start of production all the way through to the delivery of final episodes.
In my most recent role as Supervising Technical Producer on The Real Housewives of Melbourne, it was my responsibility to oversee the ‘rushes’ on the show from the day it was shot - data wrangling and verifying the processing of the footage, organising the footage and syncing all audio/video, then passing it onto teams of editors and post-producers to put the episodes together.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic everybody was working from home so we used Avid on Demand and edited every episode in the cloud. Every member of the team had their own VM hosted on Microsoft Azure servers which was booted up every morning while I managed the uploading of all the footage so scenes could be shot on one day and cut the next.
Finally, when episodes were completed it was my job meticulously go through every episode and connect the low-resolution edit with the original high-resolution footage in DaVinci Resolve, before it was delivered to a Post-Production house for colour grading and delivery.
Some of the other projects I've worked on are shows such as Grand Designs Australia and Masterchef Australia.
