Deeter Post

Mark has been a professional editor, compositor, and animator since 2003, and a musician since age 10. He has a BFA in Electronic Media from the University of Cincinnati, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in life.

In his free time, he likes to learn about new ways to improve his craft, play guitar and sing (usually at the same time), and write.

Job description

Help wanted: freelance editor, motion graphics designer, 3D artist, colorist, compositor. Must be the same person. Benefits include a dark room, a timeline, and opinions. Duties include cutting picture, building motion, lighting things that do not exist, and converting “we’ll know it when we see it” into something that can actually leave the room.

Currently seeking creative projects. Commercials with a joke, films with a pulse, brands that would rather be remembered than PowerPointed. Send a cut, a brief, a still, or a problem. The staff is one. The room is taking work.

Tools

• Cinema 4D
• Premiere Pro
• After Effects
• DaVinci Resolve
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Audition
• Unreal Engine
• Blender
• Comfy UI

Typical work activities

• Read the brief. Or the shot list. Or the email that is neither, sent at 11:47, subject line “thoughts.”
• Ingest the footage. Hunt the real files living one folder below _FINAL_FINAL_v7.
• Sync picture and sound so they agree to be in the same commercial.
• Cut. Most of it leaves. That’s the job.
• Build a rough that can survive a conference call and still have a joke.
• Reorder, trim, and lie a little until the thing plays instead of merely existing.

Additional tasks

• Take notes from the director, the producer, and whoever got cc’d by accident. Make them one note.
• Pick the take that is the scene, not the take that was expensive.
• Color until the product looks like it was shot on purpose.
• Motion, VFX, 3D - the missing pack, the missing shot, the missing world.
• Write a voiceover. Find the music. Or both, if the cut is holding its breath.
• Try a graphic until it looks like a decision and not a template.
• Business affairs: estimates, invoices, and getting paid for the version after “final.”

Clients

• Procter & Gamble
• Sandlot Pictures
• Finelight Advertising
• Possible (Bridge Worldwide)
• Lightborne
• Lakeshore
• Fox Sports Net
• PPS
• KPG Creative
• Bright Light Communications
• Upstream Media
• Abundance Technologies
• DPS
• Bob Egle Productions
• Kremer Production Services
• Jay TV
• Luxottica
• Red Bull
• Strategy Group for Media
• I & Eye Productions
• Mills James Productions
• Macy's
• CBS Sports
• Panasonic
• Big 10 Network
• NFL Network
• Goodwill Industries
• GE
• Rutgers University NIEER
• University of Cincinnati
• Husky Boy
• Ashland University
• Migration Branding
• PSB
• Creative Dimensions
• Matson Money