Craig Tollis

Assistant Editor. Avid Media Composer and Unity. Check and group dailies. Organize project. SFX temps editing. Sound clean up. VFX and composite temps. Scripter/scriptsync prep and formatting.

Assistant editor for post production of 3 one-hour talk show episodes recorded live-to-tape then cleaned up and formatted for broadcast. Prepped footage and graphics for live truck. Load footage and assist with clean-up and finishing for broadcast. Avid Media Composer, Symphony, ISIS and Interplay.

Avid editor for half hour sit-com episode.

Load and organize dailies. Create and organize projects. Assist editors. Create and insert formatting elements. Check program formatting is to network spec. Prep online material for audio and video conform. VFX prep, coordination and insertion. Media management and archive using Avid ISIS and Interplay.

Setup Telestream Pipeline footage capture. Organize multicam dailies. Create and organize projects. Assist editors. Create and insert formatting elements. Check program formatting to network spec. Prep online material for audio and video conform. Media management and archive using Avid ISIS, Avid Interplay and StorageDNA. Edit show acts at editors' request.

Editor for independent dramatic family feature film featuring Eric Roberts.

Load and organize multicam dailies from P2 and Telestream Pipeline. Create and organize projects. Format shows to network spec. Prep online media for audio and video conform. Media management using Avid ISIS and Interplay. Assisted editors. Edited acts at editors' request.

Editor for half-hour film history documentary about 1941 feature Sergeant York. Doc written and produced by film historian Dr. John White. Aired on PBS station WCTE.

Check formatting to network spec. Conform to online resolution (Symphony). Perform online fixes, boom mic or shadow removal, logos and signage, stabilize, remove other unwanted elements. Roundtrip colorist (Resolve). Insert titles and graphics. Roundtrip sound mixer (Protools). QC fixes. Format and output broadcast master - tape and file based.

Load and prep multicam dailies. Organize project. Prep shows for audio conform (Protools) and color (Resolve). Update tape based masters. Dub masters to various tape formats. Create DVDs.

Director and cinematographer for Josh Harris's comedy music video, "Sabertooth".

Director and editor of one hour documentary program, "Lost Masterpiece: Karl Brown's Stark Love", which follows film historian Dr. John White's investigation of Paramount's Karl Brown to make the 1927 docudrama, Stark Love, through interviews with the descendants of the filmmakers and Appalachian mountaineers who appeared in that film.

Backend assistant editor for updates to shows for syndication delivery. Restore show elements from masters. Insert changes, fixes or updates. Output updated material to HDCAM masters and safety dubs. Dub to syndication masters with various sound and picture configurations.

Avid editor for single-camera comedy pilot featuring comedian Ben Gleib.

3rd Video Assist Operator for complex or 2nd unit shoot days. Ran cables for up to 4 cameras (Film and Arri Alexa), move and set up video village, wireless transmitters and receivers and director's cart. Coordinate with Sound Mixer and DIT. Playback of footage for director. Operate special monitors for director.

2nd/Utility for complex shoot days. Ran cables to 3 to 4 film cameras. Setup video village and monitor for Scripty. Operate video assist system for recording and playback. Coordinate with sound mixer.

Director and cinematographer for Notorious D-A-D (Mike Stiles) comedy music video, Christmas in the Suburbs.

Avid segment editor for ACC and SEC shows. High energy doc/magazine style sports segment than opened show. Created intensive graphics, transitions and VFX to treat footage. Chose music. Also assembled shows, inserted graphics, titles and other elements from network. Reformatted segments into stand alone one hour show.

Avid editor for ACC and SEC shows. High energy doc/magazine style sports opening segment. Created intensive graphics, transitions and VFX treatments. Chose music. 2009 Southern Regional Emmy, Editing Non-News, for Clemson show. Also assembled shows, inserted graphics, titles and other network elements. Reformatted segments into stand alone one hour show.

Editor for Auction Network pilot series. The program visited auctions around the US profiling each location, auctioneers, sellers, items for sale and area attractions. Editor for 4 one-hour episodes.

Offline Avid editor for magazine style show in which creators of popular web based material were interviewed about their projects. CNN Headline News.

Editor for show opening segment for ACC/SEC colleges - high energy doc style interview/VO package, music driven with lots of VFX and treatment of footage. Also reformatted segments to two one-hour stand alone shows.

Director (w- Elisabeth Andre) of Budd Harbis's Southern comedy short, "Tonky".

Editor for show opening segment - high energy doc style interview/VO package, music driven with lots of VFX and treatment of footage.

Standby editor on location. Final Cut Pro 7. Prepped material and edited packages for JumboTron stage display.

Avid editor for finishing broadcast version of show. Cleaned up live-to-tape master from event. Adjusted some edits. Tightened up timing of show to fit network broadcast requirements. Removed material for copyright, licensing and S&P purposes. Added or improved audience reaction shots.

Editor and Online Editor for series of 5 half-hour shows following the host and home owners as they make creative upgrades to their houses' walls.

Editor and Online Editor for series of 5 half-hour shows detailing creative and practical uses of lighting in the home.

Segment editor and assistant editor for regionally broadcast documentary program about the State of Georgia's foster care and adoption system. Also provided on-location sound services. The program won a Southern Regional Emmy Award.

Half hour doc on youth issues for DVD and regional syndication. On set sound mixer and tape management. Log, load and prep footage and projects. Cut in GFX, animation and MX packages as well as program formatting. Design and author DVD package.

Editor and Online Editor for series of 5 half-hour shows showing safety and security related home improvements techniques.

Half hour regionally syndicated documentary. Load footage from tape and digital sources. Log and prep footage and project. Make dubs for transcription. Some additional transcription. On location sound mixer and tape management. Tape library management.

Half hour doc on youth issues for regional syndication. On set sound mixer and tape management. Log and load footage. Prepare dubs for transcription service. Some additional transcription. Assist with formatting of program. Assist with revisions. The program won a Southern Regional Emmy Award.

Editor and Online Editor for series of 5 half hour shows following a father and daughter remodeling the bathroom in the daughter's fixer-upper house.

Segment Editor

Load footage, music and graphics. Organize projects. Insert additional elements into segments. Coordinate with editors and online editor. Internal QC.

One hour documentary for regional syndication. Load footage from tape. Organize tape library. Log and prep footage. Make dubs of interviews for transcription service. Assemble rough footage. On location tape management and PA. Make revisions. Prep material for composer, audio sweetening and online. Program received Southern Regional Emmy Award.