Matthew Porter

After having edited for all 9 seasons, the final 52 episodes were lead by me with a team of 1 additional editor, 1 assistant editor, a post coordinator and a post PA. I took on the lead position and delegated the appropriate tasks to my team to be able to edit and deliver each episode under a new 1 hour format and with a limited schedule and workload compared to previous seasons.

After being promoted to Editor from Assistant Editor, I continued working on the daytime, 2 hour program, The Home & Family Show through the first half of season 9. I worked alongside the lead editor to cut various pretaped DIY or cooking portions to roll in live-to-tape while the show was being recorded. I would ingest each segment and string them together to create the full episode sequence. That would then be edited down based on producer notes or fixing known errors that occurred during filming. We primarily used Avid but had the Adobe CC Suite for Photoshop and After Effects for various elements that would also roll into each segment or edited after shooting finished. This is a live to tape show that shoots on 4 primary cameras with a 5th floating camera if it was needed and 2 overhead "robo-cams" for top down shots. We used a NEXIS network storage system that all media was recorded and ingested to and at least 5 Avid machines that had shared access to edit.

Prepping daily taped segments utilizing both tape and unity storage. Also managing the transcoding and backup/archive of broadcast episodes.

Editing and color correction for an independent web series. Primarily using Avid and After Effects telling the narrative of two friends caught up in a series of comedic but dire events. This is also an on going project with many more episodes to follow the pilot.

I both shot and edited this project. The video was shot entirely on green screen and the final product required compositing and some basic video effects using After Effects. The video was almost entirely assembled in After Effects and then ingested into Avid for fine tuning and audio syncing.

Basic editing and color correction for YouTube Reviews of a dietary supplement called ErgoShred. The footage was sent to me via Dropbox and cut in Final Cut Pro 7, colored in Color and sent back in a Web Stream-able format for the client.

During the summer months from 2006-2012 I did the videography, editing and distribution for various stage plays for a local theater company outside of the Chicago area. I used Final cut to edit with minor correction in Color. I would then burn to DVD and distribute to audience and cast.