Mauricio Soto
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2018 |
Editor, Motion Graphics Editor, Finishing Editor, Assistant Editor, DIT, Compositor and Colorist.
Commercials & Industrials |
Over 300 videos for OXO The Shed |
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2017 |
Producer, Director of Photography, Editor and Digital Tech
Commercials & Industrials |
Hundreds of videos for multiple clients; SAP, Fitness, Shape, etc. Above All Productions, Inc. |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2002 | BA in Film and TV Production | University of Westminster |
Equipment
My Equipment/Kit:
I can use:
About me
• I am a technical and creative Video Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, and Digital Tech with 17 years of experience• I create videos that inform, promote, educate, entertain, and inspire
• I produce, shoot and edit corporate, marketing, and educational videos
• I specialize in Promos, commercials, social media videos, explainers, product demonstrations, tutorials, how-to videos, e-commerce videos, music videos, short films, and documentaries.
• I have produced, shot, and edited hundreds of videos for a variety of clients, including companies like SAP, Start Gas / Petro, and Arup. Non-for-profit organizations like ISMS, You Can Thrive, and the Chefs Collaborative. Moreover, for magazines like All You, Ladies Home Journal, Fitness, and Shape
• As a producer, I manage projects and teams keeping everything on time and budget. I ideate, write, storyboard, plan, and execute.
• As a Videographer, I capture high-quality footage that captures the essence of the story. I light, shoot, record audio, and direct on-camera talent.
• As an Editor, I excel at editing engaging and effective branded, promotional, educational, and documentary content. I edit, color correct, create motion graphics, do compositing, and audio design.
• I deliver high quality, engaging, and compelling videos that are on time, budget, and brand.
Additional information:
• I am a curious storyteller with a passion for science, technology, travel, and social issues
• A digital video production and post-production professional who effectively brings projects from ideation to reality
• An organized and reliable team member who can work under pressure and sticks to tight deadlines
• An enthusiastic self-starter who can work independently
• A collaborator with strong communication and management skills
Technical Skills
• Video production and post-production
• Shooting video with most digital cinema, photography, action, and broadcast cameras
• Shooting photography with medium format cameras and DSLRs
• Lighting for video and photography in studio and location using continuous lighting and strobes
• Lighting and shooting green / blue screens and seamless backgrounds
• Audio recording and mixing on small video shoots
• Proficient at video editing, color correction, compositing, effects, tracking, rotoscoping, titles and motion graphics with Adobe Creative Cloud, Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Motion, Cinema 4D, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Closed captioning and subtitles
• Transcribing and translating English Spanish
• Audio fixing, design and mixing with Adobe Audition and with plugins from Izotope and Waves
• Video compression with Adobe Media Encoder, Apple Compressor
• Knowledge of video codecs, broadcast technical standards, and best practices
• Knowledge of the cloud, content management systems (CMS), streaming and social media platforms like Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram
• Knowledge of archiving and SAN systems
• Logging, tagging and annotating assets with metadata
• Creation of workflows for production and post-production
• Research skills
• Asset acquisition and licensing
• Scriptwriting and storyboarding
• Directing on camera talent
• Photography and video retouching and compositing with Photoshop and After Effects
• Photography capture and processing with Capture One and Lightroom
• Video capture, digitizing, processing, on set first pass, LUT creation, proxies and dailies creation, data wrangling and asset management with Sony Catalyst, Sony Raw Viewer, CatDV, ShotPut Pro, Red Cine X, Comfort Siverstack, Livegrade Pro and DaVinci
• Web design and maintenance with Adobe's Dreamweaver, and Wordpress. HTML, CSS
• SEO and Analytics
• Office, finance and production software: Google's Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Apple's Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Microsoft Office's Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Filemaker, QuickBooks, Showbiz Budgeting, Jungle Software's Chimpanzee and Gorilla Budgeting and Scheduling
License & Passport
Driver's License: | Yes |
Skills
Secondary Job Title | Director of Photography |
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Job Titles | Video Editor, Colorist, Motion Graphic Designer, Producer, Camera Operator, Cinematographer, Director of Photography (DOP), DIT / Data Wrangler, Gaffer / Lighting Director, Key Grip, Marketing / PR |
Years in industry | 6+ years |