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Editing Skills

  • Professional high quality video editing including:

    • Promos

    • Social content

    • Educational and training videos

    • Podcasts

    • Explainer videos

    • Virtual presentations featuring Zoom recordings & slide decks

    • Documentaries

    • TV series

    • YouTube mini-series

Technical Skills

  • Media organization

  • Marking takes and logging b-roll

  • Sync video to audio

  • Multi-cam grouping in AVID and Premiere

  • Manually scripting groups in AVID

  • Searching for and importing music and stock

  • Turnovers to VFX and sound departments

  • Relaying notes for VFX versions and tracking progress

  • Simple sound design and sound leveling

  • Finalizing audio in Premiere Pro

  • Basic color correction in Premiere Pro

  • Troubleshooting technical difficulties

  • Creating deliverables for air on various platforms

Union Membership

  • Motion Pictures Editor's Guild / IATSE - Local 700

Programs (Most Used)

  • AVID Media Composer

  • Premiere Pro

  • After Effects

  • Photoshop

  • PowerPoint​

  • Media Encoder

  • Canva

  • Illustrator

Admin / Organization

  • Shared Google docs

  • Tracking ADR, music cues, and visual effects​

  • Communication between departments

  • Schedule third party vendors for remote or local work

  • Create schedules for projects surrounding hard deadlines

  • Unity/Isis, EditShare, Quantum, Box, Frame.io, Dropbox

Soft Skills

  • Communication

  • Problem Solving

  • Multi-tasking

  • Adaptability

  • Strong Work Ethic

  • Dependability

  • Teamwork

  • Time Management

  • Interpersonal Skills

Partial List of Credits
Experience

National Geographic | The Incredible Dr Pol

Season 21 "Faux Paws"

Additional Editor

National Geographic | The Incredible Dr Pol

Season 21 "A Hard Day's Bite"

Additional Editor

National Geographic | The Incredible Dr Pol

Season 21 "Pup Friction"

Additional Editor

National Geographic | The Incredible Dr Pol

"Incredible Dr Pol: A 200th Polapalooza"

Additional Editor

National Geographic | The Incredible Dr Pol

Seasons 20 and 21

Senior Assistant Editor

National Geographic | Going Viral 

Emmy Winner Documentary

Junior Editor

National Geographic | Kids vs Plastic

Season 1

Junior Editor

National Geographic | Sam's Zookeeper Challenge

Season 1

Junior Editor

National Geographic | Animal Showdown

Season 1

Junior Editor

National Geographic | Best Job Ever

Season 2

Junior Editor

Fresh TV | Women For Women International

YouTube Promo

Editor

Fox Studios | Life In Pieces

Season 2

Assistant Editor

Disney XD | Walk The Prank

Season 1

Assistant Editor

All3Media America | Make Me A Millionaire Inventor

Season 1

Assistant Editor

Fox Studios | Cooper Barrett's Guide To Surviving Life

Season 1

Assistant Editor

Abominable Pictures / Adult Swim | Childrens Hospital

Season 7

Assistant Editor

Abominable Pictures / Hulu | The Hotwives Of Las Vegas

Season 1

Assistant Editor

Abominable Pictures and FeigCo | Other Space

Season 1

Assistant Editor

All3Media America / MTV | Slednecks

Season 1

Assistant Editor

Cisco TV
Editor (Freelance)
2019 - ongoing

  • Creative edits for internal use: training videos, educational, virtual presentations

  • Creative edits for public promos

  • Prep recorded material for large virtual events such as DevNet or Marketing Velocity

  • Rebranded PowerPoint decks

Graphics and Playback Operator (freelance)

  • Operate PowerPoint slides for live virtual broadcasts

  • Operate Playback for live broadcasts, including Cisco TV ID, Cisco TV copyright, and additional videos as needed

Curbio
Head of Video Production & Video Editor
Jan 2023 - Mar 2024

  • Joined the marketing dept to create promotional content featured on their website, YouTube channel, and social media

  • Assisted with recordings for virtual events and presentations, cleaned up webinar edits, and advised on vendors and equipment

  • POC for outside vendors and freelancers.

  • Functioned as producer and editor for all projects

Disney / National Geographic
Video Editor
May 2022 - Sep 2022

  • Additional Editor and Sr. Assistant Editor on multiple episodes for "The Incredible Dr Pol" (season 21)

Recurring Senior Assistant Editor

Contract: May 2021 - Apr 2022

  • Additional Editor credit on the 200th "Polapalooza"

  • Assisted prepping media and organizing projects on "The Incredible Dr Pol"

  • Held training sessions on assistant editor workflows

  • Documented workflows as a reference guide for incoming assistant editors

Junior Editor & Editor

Contract: May 2018 - Aug 2019

  • Majority of time was spent working on various YouTube kids series

  • Prepped shows for streaming on Disney Plus

  • Junior Editor for Emmy winner documentary "Going Viral: Beyond the Hot Zone"

  • Assisted on multiple shows when they needed an extra hand to step in and keep up with deadlines

  • Trained fellow assistant editors on workflows

Freelance
Video Editor
2019 - Present

Partial list of clients and work done:

Myriad Media

  • IBM Business Operations Academy - prepped keynotes and presentations for internal use

  • DHIC promotional video

  • DHIC Greg Warren tribute (internal use)

Zoning Media

  • Edited event videos for Duke University's art dept

  • Edited podcasts and informative training modules for Security Journey

Chartreuse Moose / Onpoint​

  • Prepped short videos for social media use

Street Media​

  • Organized media for a pitch project

Sean Ingram Academy

  • Introduction video for website and events

  • Sanderson High School promo

Fresh TV, DC
Coordinating Producer & Junior Editor
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018

Editor for Women for Women International Promo

Prepped Premiere and AVID projects for edit

Freelance
Assistant Editor
2013 - 2017

Contracts with Fox Studios, Go Go Luckey, Abominable Pictures, BBC, All3Media America, Disney XD, and more

  • Communicated with and provided material to employees/co-workers in different departments, such as the Video Editor, Post Coordinator and Post Supervisor, Producers, Visual Effects House, Online House, and Sound Department

  • Prepared daily footage including audio syncing, multi-cam grouping, marking groups, scripting scenes, organizing b-roll and stock footage

  • Maintained project and media organization

  • Prepped episode binders with daily reports from the Script Supervisor

  • Updated shared Google Docs tracking ADR, visual effects, and music cues

  • Exported and distributed reference videos for notes

  • Laid in sound effects throughout full episodes

  • Created temporary visual effects and graphics, such as split screens, green screens, lower thirds, graphics, and more

  • Turned over AAFs, EDLs and video references to audio, visual effects, and online departments

  • Reviewed visual effects with the AP and Post Supervisors and passed along detailed notes for revisions

  • Edited scenes or gag reels as needed per show

Education

The Los Angeles Film School | 2007

Double Major: Video Editing and Sound Design

Shelly Westerman, Editor in Los Angeles with Fox Studios

"Perceptive, thorough, kindhearted.  This describes Sarah Heinitz.  She’s one of the most accomplished editors I’ve worked with.  She shines in a collaborative environment, able to manage the critical demands of any cutting room.  Her positive energy and her willingness to give it her all make her an astounding candidate for any job!"
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