Ali Ahmad

Left: raw A-roll. Right: the finished cut. Same take. Different result.

Before and after on a recent edit.

Greenscreen keying on compressed cinema footage, the compression crushes most of the color data you would normally rely on for a clean key, so that part alone was a challenge.

Rebuilt the color grade to bring the footage back to life, cleaned the...

This is not a sped-up video, it is just the normal speed I work at.

Probably no one will ever say this on Contra… I started video editing career completely by accident. For me it was just a hobby. My first job happened by mistake. I thought I would do it as a favor for free and somehow got paid for it. Every step after that also felt...