Rostam Persson

Promo and Next On/Prev On Editor at the Amazing race. As a junior editors we also have assistant editor duties for the first part of the season. Worked with Avid, Photoshop, and After Effects for animation.

Promo and Next On/Prev On Editor at the Amazing race. As a junior editors we also have assistant editor duties for the first part of the season. Worked with Avid, Photoshop and some After Effects and animation.

Using Avid 6.3. Supervising loggers, grouping, ingesting, locking episodes (AAF's, uprezzing, exporting), transcoding footage, The Amazing Race is a show that's always on the move, which leads to a lot of manual syncing for the groups with around 10-20 cameras (spanning around 3-4 hours of time). This job takes a lot of attention to detail and constantly being aware of labeling mistakes in the field, missing tapes, and missing micro recorders.

Ingesting, grouping, syncing, stringing, rating and pulling whatever clips editors need.

Upressing, Tapeless Workflow Outputting Exporting AAF's Promos Troubleshooting ISIS management and much more

Promo and Next On/Prev On Editor at the Amazing race. As a junior editors we also have assistant editor duties for the first part of the season. Worked with Avid, Photoshop and some After Effects and animation.

Locking shows, outputs for EP's/CBS , upressing, pull lists for online, split tracks, AAF's, EDL's, uploads to Aspera, chyrons, promo requests for CBS. I introduced AMA linking into the workflow. As well as helping the lead AE to move projects to the ISIS. Ingesting XDCAM into Pilotware, AMA linking & transcoding.

Tapeless workflow working with AVID MC 6.5.3 with ISIS. Ingesting, transcoding, multigrouping, 7-8 cameras, assigning B-roll. Merging split up footage with CdProRes, Adding timecode to GoPros with QTchange. Backups. Exporting to all various formats.

Coming up with ideas for sketches, songs and other comedy videos for the youtube channel. Editing using Premiere 5 to CC Editing using Final Cut Pro 7.

Ingesting working with: XDCAM, DVCPRO, HDV. Overcutting, grouping & working with tapeless workflow.

1. Non-tape editing using AMA footage transcoded to lower resolution 2. Editing the entire project. 3. Re-linking original AMA footage to original resolution.

Working as a Videographer for Antioch university on multiple occasions, being the jack of all trades from holding the camera to the end product. 1. Importing RED footage 2. Syncing sound. 3. Editing the conference and color correcting. 4. Delivering project in the format that's requested,.

Assistant Editor using Avid. Syncing audio, linking AMA. Transcoding and upres for online. Being involved in editing the rough cut before the editor took over.

Editing and color correcting the scripted short comedy using RED footage.

 WISE-IT, Technical support, administrating servers and users for Sweden’s biggest Pharmacy.  Thermo-Scientific, On-site server administrator, hardware support, software support and networking.  SLU University, my first IT job, backing up servers, administrating users and migrating 100 computers from win 98 to XP.

Editing Trailers and cutting from rough cut to final cut. The Queen and I is a 2008 Swedish-made documentary feature film about Farah Pahlavi, the former Queen and Empress of Iran. The film follows the former queen and empress and the director, a former communist, as they share ideas and concerns about the country they were both forced to leave after the revolution

Using AvidLinking AMA files, transcoding and then upres to full quality. Also involved in rough cut with the editor.

1. Batch Capturing from tapes. 2. Editing in Final Cut Pro. Project won honorary mention on Uppsala Shortfilm festival.

Batch capture tapes, solving tech & software issues with Avid, setting up project settings to the appropriate format, syncing audio.

Trailer editor for the Emmy nominated documentary "Prostitution Behind the Veil"