PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY
Sarah was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In Fall 2005, she moved to study Radio/TV/Film at the University of Texas at Austin. In May 2009, she graduated with two degrees (RTF & English) and highest honors. Her first job was filming and editing videos for LifeSize, an HD video conferencing company. She completely built and managed the video program there until leaving in January 2011 to work as the Assistant Editor on the feature film When Angels Sing, produced by Elizabeth Avellan and directed by Tim McCanlies. In April 2011, she was re-hired at LifeSize to produce videos for the Training Department.
Sarah currently lives near downtown Austin with her bike, Gladys. Besides editing, she enjoys reading books, running long-distances, and drinking full-bodied red wines. She is also learning to knit!

EDITING
When Sarah was 15, she used Pinnacle Studio to edit footage her 9 year old sister had shot of her singing “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne. That was when she decided that she loved editing. In her college film classes, she finally got her hands on the real stuff– Final Cut Pro and AVID — and cut together several projects.
In Spring 2008, she moved to LA to intern with Goodspot (trailer company) and Vienna Productions. In those four months, she used both AVID and Final Cut Pro extensively. She edited a promo for Goodspot, several podcasts and a short documentary for Vienna Productions, and a reel for LandShark post house that won her cash and an iPhone.
When she returned to Austin, she was eager both to finish her studies and to continue her editing career. Her final semester, she helped out Editor David Fabelo on the UT Film Institute‘s “Dance With the One.” She graduated from UT in May 2009. Her freelance work since then has been diverse, from the trailer for the film “Pretty Ugly People” (produced and directed by the team that made “The Help” in 2011) to promotional materials for Big Fish Nation to an award-winning documentary for the non-profit organization Community Now.
At LifeSize, she’s green-screened executive announcements and training videos, interviewed people at tradeshows in Las Vegas and NYC, and produced HGTV-style “Demo Room Makeovers” for LifeSize partners in Buffalo and Tulsa. She worked as an Assistant Editor on the feature film When Angels Sing, produced by Elizabeth Avellan and directed by Tim McCanlies.
Sarah is always up for a new challenge, and she loves every type of video project that she has confronted thus far!

CURRENT PROJECTS
On the weekends, Sarah works with Spinning Leaf Films, editing their Same Day Edits at wedding receptions around Austin. She’s also been working full-time in the Training Department at LifeSize, utilizng the Newtek Tricaster, Panasonic HPX170s, LifeSize video conferencing systems, and the Adobe Production Suite to produce training videos.

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If you would like to find out more about my background or my editing skills, please feel free to e-mail me!