I'm the editor you're looking for!

I'm an editor with 20+ years of experience in film, TV and commercials.

I'm a storyteller with a strong grasp of long-form, short-form and ultra-short-form content. Master of principles of editing, pacing and storytelling with a good eye for composition and aesthetics.

I'm fast, reliable, problem-solving, positive, self-motivated individual able to take direction and work collaboratively. Extremely comfortable person to work with. Team player. A charming dude.

Vendor-certified expert in Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, LightWorks with a solid understanding of After Effects, Motion, Fusion, as well as Photoshop and Illustrator.

Color Correction and beauty work in latest DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Also do titles design and animation, as well as graphics design

Check out list of my projects here and some video examples here.

Tools I use

I'm editing in virtually every modern (and not) NLE software, including:

Avid Media Composer
Adobe Premiere Pro
DaVinci Resolve
Apple Final Cut Pro
Lightworks
Grass Valley Edius

For some obscure reason, I never worked in Sony Vegas. Dunno why. Oh, and somehow I never edited in CapCut either!

Other tools I use

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe After Effects
Apple Motion
Apple Compressor
Assimilate Scratch
Autodesk Smoke*
Apple Final Cut Pro 7*

* jk, don't really use those anymore, just kept it installed from good ol' times.

Education

Moviola, LA
Film Editing workshop, 2014
Pinewood Studios, London, UK
Certified Instructor, Level 2, 2013
Grass Valley, Moscow
EDIUS Prime Trainer, 2013
Adobe, New York
Certified Master Instructor, 2012
Avid, Munich, Germany
Certified Instructor, Level 1, 2012
Adobe, Paris, France
Certified Instructor, 2012
American Cinema Editors, LA
Universal Studios, 2012
Apple, Manchester, UK
Apple Mentor Trainer, 2011
Apple, Munich, Germany
Apple Mentor Trainer, 2010
Autodesk, London, UK
Smoke for Mac, 2010
New York Film Academy
Filmmaking, 2009
Apple, Moscow
Certified Master Trainer, 2009
fxPHD Visual Effects School
Compositing and Effects, 2008
VGIK (University of Cinema), Moscow
Film Editor, Avid Certified User, 2006

Hobbies

Being a film buff, I prefer to have all my favorite films on physical media. I have a vast collection of DVDs, Blu-rays and even LaserDiscs (no shit!), over 2,000 titles so far (2,201 to be precise). And yeah, it takes a lot of space in my home, but it's totally worth it. No, it's not hoarding.

A little bit of statistics here. In 2024 I watched 400 films and 135 TV shows. In 2023 it was 221 film and 69 TV shows. Yup, I'm writing down everything.

I'm a huge fan of mechanical keyboards. IBM Model M keyboard is my absolute favorite. There's nothing like typing on mechanical keys, nothing compares to that. Oh, and also Leopold keyboards with electro-capacitive Topre switches are not too shabby either (and much pricey too).

In my spare time I learn programming languages, just for the fun of it. So far I've learned PHP (fluent, this site is written in it), JavaScript, Python, C (of course!), Swift, and some obscure oldies like Object Pascal / Delphi, awk and Objective-C. I wrote a bunch of command-line tools that I use in my everyday practice.

Contact me

e-mail: dmitry.lari@yahoo.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dmitrylari
IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm4160850
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