Steve Sarles, Editor

I am a freelance editor in the Boston area. My resume and reel are linked below.

Since early 2004 I've been editing using Final Cut Pro, and I've been editing on Avid systems since the early nineties — over 13 years. Before that I edited on 16mm and 35mm flatbed, 35mm upright Moviola, Sony RM440 deck controller, and Super 8mm film (if you want to go back to Junior High School).

I've edited a wide variety of television commercials, including :30's, :15's, lifts, a 2 minute national campaign with multiple market versions and even more 800 numbers and legal supers. I've cut new business pitches, brand essence videos, sales meeting presentations, behind the scenes videos, promotional pieces, and interview cut-downs.

I was fortunate to get into film editing professionally before some big transitions came along. When I started, if a client wanted to see a simple effect, we pulled the negative for the optical house and it would be back in two days. Our final product was a composite print, taken to a telecine suite for overall color adjustment, then audio relayed in the suite. Then someone suggested color correcting the scenes we used and conforming it in an online suite without any kind of list. Next came keycode burn-in and the Sony RM-440 edit controller. And finally, non-linear editing appeared, though it crashed once an hour. Now prepping for a job took a few minutes instead of half a day. Of course, by then I was an editor and there were assistant editors for that. But I usually did it anyway.

My favorite work is editing to music and cutting comedy.

The first step is to keep cutting until "it stops bugging me."

A lot of the job is problem solving. Maybe that's obvious. Maybe not.

If you were looking for my personal site, email me for the url.

Resume/Reel

My resume, in PDF format.

Here's a video I cut in September for Marshalls' "The Cube" Website. Or see it on the site here (click on "Watch the full video").

Some recent work, in QuickTime format.

This includes a video shown at Marshalls skating events, two tv spots, and a 5 minute industrial video.

Here's a video for Graymatter for their client
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, on the day they got to ring the NASDAQ bell. As an editor, I was mainly animating as per the Art Director's design--but it was on the NASDAQ building!
This demo compares the animation (left) with the live footage.

My TV spot reel, in QuickTime format.

This reel has the scary sound effects I put to the logo that CJP did but doesn't include the two "Special Editor's Cuts" at the end. To see those, email me for a DVD. The first two spots are editor cuts, though.

The TJ Maxx is a composite of two spots I cut (my favorite scenes from each), and the McDonald's is a version with more people, less food.