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With over 16 years experience, I’ve worked on the studio floor, on location in OB trucks, and spent countless days sat in darkened edit suites offline editing mutli-camera light entertainment programmes, documentaries and short form features.

My staff edit experience was based in onlining: I’m very happy grading as well as FX compositing (nothing much beats a large coffee, half a dozen faces to blur out and making the programme look pretty!).

I can also do actual cuts and dissolves and have done features editing on sports programmes as well as cut corporate and L.E. programmes for broadcast. The latter using tape suite and multi-cam modes on FCP and Avid.

When I’m working on sports programming time is of the essence: using Avid Interplay or FCP connected to shared EVS drives, I’ve been required to turn around 60 second music montages minutes after the final whistle/bell and then to continue editing the highlights.

Lately I've been branching out into software programming under the name of BrightScreenTV and have a couple of applications for Mac, Windows, and iApps. Check out:
www.brightscreentv.net for a great way of easily doing your music/archive copyright paperwork or my timecode calculator app.

Todd Dalton

Freelance Editor. Avid/FCP/Smoke/Tape Suite
For bookings please email Marlen or Irene at TOVs

Or call them on 020 7287 6110


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FREELANCE EDITOR.
November 2006 - present.

OASIS TV.
November 2005 - November 2006. On-Line Editor in Symphony, Adrenaline, DS Nitris and tape suites.

ARENAP3 (formerly ARENA DIGITIAL).
January 2003 - November 2005. On-Line Editor in Smoke suite, Avid suites, and tape suites.

THE EDIT STORE.
November 1999 - January 2003. On-Line Editor in Symphony and tape suites.

FREEMANTLE MEDIA (formerly PEARSON TELEVISION).
May 1997 - November 1999. On-line editor in tape suites and offline Avid. I also worked in format transfer and studio vt. My duties included installing temporary analogue edit suites for Five's European football coverage.



FREELANCE VT OPERATOR.
February 1997 - May 1997. Gained work in o.b. v.t. trucks and at Pearson Television.

CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION.
March 1996 - September 1996. Technician/Engineer. Reviewed and prepared programmes for broadcast (dubbing and standards conversions) from D1, D3, D5, 1 inch C format and SP tapes. I also worked in the commercials section and gained experience of cart machines and scheduling systems.

FOUNTAIN TELEVISION.
April 1994 - March 1996. VT operator and studios' engineer. I worked in different aspects of television production on a variety of L.E. shows: camera department, VT and received training in camera racks. As an engineer I designed and built devices that were used throughout the studio and helped to install equipment as the facilities were upgraded.




CV

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Selected Credits




BBC Offlines.
Documentary editor on This World's Spain's Stolen Babies and India On Four Wheels. Also involved in preparatory obit's and Rogue Traders.

Stargazing Live.
BBC2 prime-time live OB.
Location editor on BBC science programme. Quick turnaround required of short features for inclusion in the live show. I also doubled as the VT op during transmission. Schedule meant a heavy workload with little chance of correcting any mistakes that might have happened. Technical support and rigging/de-rigging of the on-site edit suite was entirely my responsibility and I needed to overcome operating at very high altitude (14,000 feet). The project was entirely tapeless which meant I also had to continually deal with file management to free up P2 cards for further filming.

Britain's Secret Slaves.
Post Office Undercover.
Hard Cash Productions for C4.
Online on FCP of Dispatches documetaries (I also provided technical support to the offline editor). With the original footage shot on EXCAM, digibeta, DSLR, and avi and mpg from the undercover cameras this project required a wide range of technical input to make the FCP operate with all formats in the timeline at once. For the online I was required to blur 99.9% of the people featured in the footage as well as grade the footage to look as good and as even as it could.

BT Vision.
Edit of match highlights and closing music montage on Avid in a near-live TX environment. Also edited football Premier Leagure programmes for international delivery.

The Secret Life of Chaos.
Furnace Productions for BBC.
Full online and Color grade on FCP of HD 60 minute documetary. With the original footage shot on EXCAM, I setup the offline suite for HD editing and completed the online myself using Color. I was also required to configure the suite to play out client’s SD master.

Heads Or Tails.
Eyeworks for Five.
Multicam editing of prime-time game show on Avid.

Hanna-Oke.
Disney Channel.
Offline of 2 in a series of 4 childrens’ programmes using multi-cam on the FCP.

Total Rugby.
TWI.
Features edit and grade as well as programme stitch for international delivery of sports magazine programme.

Who Dares Wins.
12 Yards.
Offline and online of BBC 1 lottery programme.

Are You An Egghead?
12 Yards.
Multicam offline of BBC 2 quiz show.

In The Night Garden.
Ragdoll for BBC.
Amongst team of Smoke operators HD onlining, fx compositing and grading for childrens' programme.

Promos and Cross-channel trailers.
Technicolor (for Disney broadcast).
FCP edit and finishing of trailers and promos at SD and HD for tape and tapeless delivery.



America's Cup Yacht Race.
TWI.
Promos and features editing, grade and online for international yachting race on location, for daily, satellite tx'd programme.

Pepsi World Challenge.
Freedom Media for worldwide distribution.
In team of online editors doing pre and post grade onlines. I also used Nitris to paint out corporate logos for legal compliance.

Deeyah, 'What Will Be'.
 Grade in Smoke for music video.

Frank Lloyd Wright -
Murder, Myth & Modernism.
World of Wonder for BBC3.
Smoke online, grade, title sequence and animations.

Sisters In Law.
Vixen Films.
90min film documentary. International cinematic release and TX on More4/Film4. Original rushes contained x-ray damage on some reels which I fixed in Smoke. Completed online in tape suite. Film shown at Cannes 2005 in "Director's Fortnight" and subsequently awarded the Prix Art Essai.

On-air/sales/cinema release promos and cross channel commercials.
 For Jetix (formally Fox Kids), Spafax (Emirates in-flight entertainment producers), and PFA.
Edit, grade and fx composition of spots in Smoke.

Virtual History:
The Secret Plot To Kill Hitler.
Tiger Aspect for Discovery.
90min documentary online, title sequence, some graphic elements and fx compositing (except CGI footage) in Smoke. Film look for Soviet footage nominated for Focal International Award. The programme won an Emmy for graphic and artistic design. Bo Selecta Vol. 3. TalkbackThames for Channel 4. Fx compositing in Smoke for comedy series.

World War II Holocaust 60th Anniversary.
 BBC.
5 x studio inserts for broadcast on Holocaust liberation. Online and grade completed in Smoke.

Blame The Parents.
BBC.
4 x 50 min documentaries, programme onlined in Symphony and tape suite, series title sequence completed in Smoke.

The Mark Thomas Project.
 Justabout Productions for C4.
Individual half-hour documentary, grade and online.

Louis Theroux Meets...
Jimmy Saville/Paul & Debbie/Chris Eubank.
 BBC.
Online and grade of programmes in 60 minute documentary series.

Hooligans.
 BBC.
Online of series of 3 x one-hour documentaries.

Two Men in a Trench.
 Optomen for BBC.
Online of one-hour documentary series.

Royal Institute Christmas Lectures.
 Windfall Films for C4.
Online edit of series of one-hour programmes. 

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Links

To email TOVs for my availability
Marlen@tovs.co.uk or
Irene@tovs.co.uk
Website
www.tovs.co.uk

Phone 020 7287 6110


To send me an email direct
contact@todd-dalton.net

Check out my software 'Brewer' which can generate the shot lists required for you music cue sheets or copyright clearance forms automatically


www.brightscreentv.net

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timecode calculator iPhone app