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Miguel Duran

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Producing faith-based content at scale 📿 Since August 2024, I've worked as an AI Video Producer, Video Editor & Social Media Manager at Pray.com, one of the leading faith-based platforms, for nearly two years. What did I do? My role covered the full pipeline, from edit to publish: Podcast editing - Edited full episodes for Pray.com (http://Pray.com)'s in-app podcast content, shaping pacing and structure for the platform's own listening experience. Cross-platform scheduling - Managed publishing across Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube, coordinating release timing and formatting for each platform. Clip selection for discovery - Identified the most compelling moments from full episodes and cut them into short-form clips designed to hook new audiences. AI video production - Built AI-driven videos end-to-end, from image and video to audio and scripting, aligned with brand voice. Trend adaptation - Adapted content strategies to fast-moving trends while keeping originality and consistency across high-volume outputs. Who is Pray.com (http://Pray.com)? A faith-based media platform producing content around prayer, meditation, and spiritual growth, reaching audiences across its own app, podcasts, social media, and video. The greatest challenge Content spanned podcasts, live sessions, and AI videos, each with its own process and cadence. The challenge was keeping it all in sync, with consistent quality, scheduled to the right platform, at the right time, every week. The numbers 📊 6 million+ views generated across multiple campaigns and channels.
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Bringing static ideas to life through motion 🎬 This demo reel showcases my range as a motion designer, graphic animator, and 3D artist across commercial, social, and narrative formats. The greatest challenge A reel like this lives or dies on pacing. Cramming that many different styles, kinetic typography, 3D character animation, split-screen editing, short-form social cuts- into one cohesive piece meant every transition had to earn its place, without the reel ever feeling like a disconnected highlight dump. The reel is built around a few core disciplines: Motion graphics & kinetic typography — Bold, animated title cards and text-driven sequences designed to carry energy and rhythm on their own, without relying on footage to do the work. 3D character animation — Fully rendered 3D character work with dynamic lighting, environment detail, and motion, showing the ability to direct performance and camera language in a 3D space rather than just 2D compositing. Multiscreen & split-screen editing — Sequences built around split-screen and multi-panel layouts, syncing multiple pieces of footage into a single frame without losing visual clarity. Short-form social formatting — Vertical, platform-native edits with layered captions, UI overlays, and pacing built specifically for scroll-stopping attention on social media.
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This portfolio was created to showcase my editing skill and AI production capabilities, drawing on over 8 years of experience across video editing, content strategy, and full-cycle production. It brings together work spanning AI-driven storytelling, branded content, and social media at scale, reflecting both the technical range and the creative instincts built over the course of my career.
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This project was created during my time at Ginni Media, where I worked as editor on the trailer for Season 2 of Children's Aid Society's podcast, an organization dedicated to protecting children and youth from abuse, neglect, and abandonment. The piece features distinguished alumni of the program sharing how their experience shaped their lives, how it helped them reach expectations and dreams they couldn't have imagined for themselves when they were younger, and how they remain connected to the foundation in some way even now. I handled the edit, shaping pacing, structure, and tone to let each voice carry the emotional weight of the story while keeping the trailer tight and compelling enough to pull viewers into the full season. The goal was to create a piece that felt honest and human, letting real testimony do the work while the edit gave it rhythm, clarity, and momentum.
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