Sarah Heinitz

As a people pleaser, I learned to turn this trait into a positive tool throughout my career. I am fueled by creative enjoyment, self-improvement, my sense of responsibility, and client satisfaction. I approach each opportunity with the goal to assist in every way I possibly can and be the person my co-workers and clients can depend on for open communication, solving technical difficulties, offering creative ideas, and implementing their visions to the highest standards.

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I am forever grateful for those I have met in my journey and for the paths they have helped lead me to. I have had the pleasure to work with and learn from many talented individuals as well as many supportive and creative teams.

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My career has led me down some unexpected paths through various roles within production and post production. During my time as Broadcast Operator for Celebrity Cruises, I wore many hats filming and editing promos, guest interviews and the Cruise Director Daily Show while living aboard cruise ships for 6 months at a time.

 

I became a Master Control Operator at Fox Sports in Texas when I decided to return to land life and quickly moved into the Prime Time shift running live games, responding to technical difficulties within seconds, and preparing for rain delays and other possible obstacles during live feeds.

 

My position as Assistant Editor on unscripted and scripted shows in Los Angeles brought me back to a creative path. This shift required me to adapt to new workflows during each contract, adhering to each editor's preferences, and furthered my technical and creative post production skills. I worked as a coordinator and junior editor at Fresh TV in Washington D.C. before moving up from Junior/Assistant Editor to Editor over multiple years working with National Geographic.

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I functioned as the Head of Production and sole Video Editor at Curbio, creating marketing and social content to share with their talented and knowledgable marketing team. This required fast turnarounds, fielding multiple requests on a regular basis and a constant shift of priorities, managing a video post-production schedule so the team would consistently have new material to pull from, swift adaptations and video audits to shifts in messaging and branding, and a creative mind to not let any of the content feel too stagnant.

 

I currently am a freelance video editor, working on projects from Cisco TV and others, with a focus on a variety of both internal and external informative videos, virtual conferences, presentations, training modules and promotional advertisements. I also take on freelance and contract opportunities with broadcast projects or YouTube shows such as PBS' "What Can You Become" YouTube series.

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