Scott Thomas
London based Freelance Video Editor
Tel +44 (0)7774 458598
Curriculum Vitae
A freelance broadcast video editor since 1990 I have worked on just about every genre on TV from accelerated reality to political satire, sports to game shows .
As a highly technical online / finishing editor I have edited for every major UK broadcaster and others around the world. Unusually, I relish doing all those fiddly finishing bits like grading, blurring, captioning and fixing Harding failures.
As a cutting editor I am very experienced in multi-camera productions, particularly live reality, quiz and game shows. With sports I have cut everything from documentary shorts to post match highlights.
I have a love of good audio and create complete sound mixes within Avid and with a background in sound post production my cuts are welcomed in both the online and sound dub, saving time at every stage. Good at cutting music (ex-musician), insert VTs and story-telling.
I’m very used to working under time pressure (lots of sports news experience) and playing a leading editor role in fast turnaround productions like I’m A Celebrity Australia, Love Island Australia and USA, Vlogglebox and the NHS Heroes Awards.
Highly experienced in the use of Avid Media Composer (and Symphony) I’m an extremely experienced and reliable editor. I also have my own home based suite for remote editing.
Enjoy working as part of a team but happy to work solo to a brief and self-producing, my main strengths are reliability, accuracy, punctuality and experience.
Recent credits
2024
Next Level Chef S3 – Fox TV – Offline – Prod: Michelle Kirschner-Grant (Studio Ramsay) | Evolutions (Remote)
2023
Love Island USA S5 – Peacock/ITV US – Finishing Prod: Iona Mackenzie & Claudine Parrish | On location in Fiji
Saturday Night Takeaway – Behind the Screens – ITV – Online & Grade – Prod: Harry Beney (ITV) | Facility: BBC Studioworks
Next Level Chef S2 – Fox TV – Offline – Prod: Michelle Kirschner-Grant (Studio Ramsay) | Evolutions (Remote)
2022
Celebrity Juice – The Last Hurrah – ITV – Offline/Online – Prod: David Maguire | Facility: Suite
Road To Love (Ekin-Su & Davide) – ITV2 – Offline – Prod: Lewis Evans / Mike Spencer | Facility: BBC Studioworks
Date Night – Amazon – Offline – Prod:Rob Clifford | Facility: Envy
Dance 100 – Netflix – Offline – Prod: Leo Holden | Facility: Envy
Geordie Shore OGs – MTV – Lime Pictures – Music replacement | Remote editing
Comedy Gold – Sid James – C5 – Online and grade – Prod: Simon Harries |Facility: ITN
Crime Scene Kitchen – Fox TV – Offline – Prod: Zach Zyskowski | Remote editing
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Street Party – ITV – Prod: Ross Murray (TBI Media) | Facility: Evolutions
Getting Filthy Rich – ITV2 – Offline – Prod: Emma Slifkin (Optomen) | Facility: FiftyFifty
Katherine Ryan Backstage – Amazon Prime – Offline – Prod: Sophie Le Good / Mike Rayment (Expectation TV) | Facility: Uncle
2021
World’s Most Expensive Christmas Cruise – C5 – Online and grade | Facility: ITN
BBC New Comedy Awards 2021 (Final) – BBC 1 – Stitch/grade – Prod: Lindsay Jex | Facility: Suite
Pride Of Britain 2021 – ITV – Stitch – Prod: Mark Scantlebury / Leanne Witcoop | Facility: Evolutions
All Star Musicals 2021 – ITV – VT edits/effects – Prod: Gemma Witcoop | Facility: Suite
Highlife – C4 – Finishing – Prod: Lucy Palmer / Daniella Berensen | Facility: Fifty-fifty
The Focus Group (Pilot) – C4 – Stitch/Finishing – Prod: Susie Hall | Facility: Suite
Love Triangle (Pilot) – E4 – Finishing – Prod: Nykki Parker | Facility: Halo
Never Mind The Buzzcocks – Sky – Offline & Online – Prod: Kate Edmund | Facility: Suite
Paralympics – The Homecoming – Live show VTs – Prod: Pete Thomas | Facility: Suite
Katherine Ryan Backstage – Amazon Prime – Offline – Prod: Sophie Le Good | Facility: Uncle
Love Island UK 2021 – ITV2 – Finishing editor (Avid) – Prod: Justin Saculles | Facility: ITN
Football’s Funniest Moments (S5) – Sky 1 – Offline (Avid WFH) and GFX (After Effects) – Prod: Chris Hill / Richard Ward | Facility: Fifty-fifty [remote]
Football’s Greatest – Eradora – 3 shorts -full post-production
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2020
I’m A Celebrity… UK 2020 – Offline and Online (Avid) Main Unseen show editor. Castle story (coming out show)
Bros In Control – Grade and Online (DaVinci) at Onsight Facilities
Champions League Club – CBC Sports – Match highlight editing (Avid)
Inside Museums – Artemisia Gentileschi – Grade and online (DaVinci) for BBC 4 at Onsight facilities
Piers Morgan Life Stories – VT offline and programme stitches (Vinny Jones, Sir Captain Tom Moore & Coleen Nolan) (Avid) for ITV at Edit Share
Forged With Steele – Grade (DaVinci) and Online (Adobe Premiere) Documentary of young blacksmith Alex Steele for Sky History at Onsight facilities
Premier League 2020-21 – VT Specials for Premier League Today at IMG (Avid)
Elliott From Earth – Online (Adobe Premiere) New cartoon series for Turner/Cartoon Network at Onsight facilities.
Premier League out of lockdown – Various shows during the last part of the 2019-2020 season at IMG, London
RTS Awards 2011- present – Nomination packages – Designed and made opening titles, wipes, etc and cut all the packages for Programme Awards, TV Journalism Awards and Craft Awards since 2011
I’m A Celebrity… Australia 2020 – Night shift finishing of all inserts – Avid grade & After Effects work on location in South Africa
Chelsea TV, Gravity Media, Sport, Editor, promos & news
Love Island Australia 2019 – Reality Nine Network Australia / ITV Australia – Online and grading this time in Fiji
Epic Gameshow – Reboot of classic 70s and 80s gameshows. Onlined the whole series at Suite.
The Rob Rinder Report – Cutting various VTs and stitching the programme at Suite
Love Island USA 2019 – Reality CBS Network – Finishing editor – overnight turnaround in Fiji
Blockbusters – Dara O Briain reboot – offline for Thames for Comedy Central
I’m A Celebrity… Australia 2019 – Night shift finishing of all inserts – Avid grade & After Effects work on location in South Africa
Play Your Cards Right – ITV Pilot – online at Stephen Street Post
You’re Fired – Boundless – Onlining VT inserts for The Apprentice spin off show at Stephen Street Post
Premier League News – 2x 30 min bulletins a day. Cutting VTs, As-Lives, floats and u-lays. It’s another language.
Premier League: Football Today – Studio show – regular editor of inserts, underlays, VTs etc.
Premier League – Jamie Vardy interview. Sensitive interview after the Leicester City chairman’s death.
Sunset + Vine – Boxing VT’s
Champions League Matchnight – Input Media – Highlights editing and programme stitch
Love Island Australia 2018 – Reality Nine Network Australia / ITV Australia – Online and grading to tight deadlines overnight on location in Mallorca
Keith Lemon: Coming In America – Mockumentary, C4. Onlined all 6 Eps
NHS Heroes Awards – Cutting sections of this 2 hour ITV special
Premier League: Club Special: Southampton – Edited most of the inserts for the Live show.
Premier League: The Big Interview – Darren Fletcher. Edited and co-produced this 75 minute special.
Sing: Ultimate A Capella – Huge scale singing contest, RDF/Sky – Offline and sound work. 4K 50p
Catch Point – Game show pilot, ITV – Offline/Online and sound mix
Vlogglebox, Review show, Studio Lambert for E4, Final Online editor and sound mix – complete series
Womens Soccer League, Magazine and Highlights show, BBC and BT Sport, Editor, online
Katie Price – My Crazy Life, Reality, Shiver for Discovery, Finishing offline editor
Celebrity Juice, Entertainment, Talkback Thames for ITV 2, Editor, straight to online
Your Face or Mine, Entertainment/Game show, Talkback for Comedy Central, Editor, online
Graham Norton Show, Chat Show, So Television for BBC1, Editor, online
Piers Morgan Life Stories, Factual Entertainment, Shiver, Editor, VT edits and stitch
Champions League Show, Input Media, Sport, Editor, opening sequence and match cuts
Royal Recipes, Factual Entertainment, Spun Gold, Editor, online and grade
Pride of Britain Awards, Entertainment, ITV, Editor, stitch
Garden Rescue, Factual Entertainment, Spun Gold Editor, online & grade
Through The Keyhole, Entertainment, Talkback Thames, Editor, online & grade
Rebound, Quiz / Game Show Thames Editor, offline
Football’s Greatest, Pitch International, Factual, offline
Not so recent credits
Russia Monthly, IMG, Factual, Editor, offline & online
Bang On The Money Quiz / Game Show Thames TV Editor, offline & online
Masterpiece, Spun Gold, Editor, offline
FIFA Football Sport Pitch Productions Editor, offline, online & grade
FIFA Futbol Mundial Sport IMG Editor, offline, online & grade
Cricket’s Greatest Sports Documentary Pitch Productions Editor, offline, online & grade
Gift Wrapped Quiz / Game Show 12 Yard for ITV Editor, online
Decimate Quiz / Game Show Celador / CPL for BBC One Editor, offline
The Exit List Light Entertainment Gogglebox Entertainment Editor, offline
FIFA Futbol Mundial Sports Documentary IMG Editor, offline, online & grade
BAFTA Awards Awards Show BAFTA Editor, online
Premier League Productions Sport IMG Editor, offline, online & grade
Even Older Credits
The Hairy Bikers Cookoff! Food BBC Editor, online
Soccerex Sports Documentary Sky Sports Editor, offline, online & grade
Sea Patrol UK Documentary Wall to Wall Editor, online
The Ryder Cup Diaries Sports Documentary IMG Editor, online & grade
Premier League Productions Core Sport IMG Editor, offline & online
SyFy Channel Launch Universal Networks Editor, online
The Premiership Sport BT Vision, Editor, online
National TV Awards Awards Show Indigo TV Editor, offline & visual effects
Duel Quiz / Game Show Gallowgate Editor, offline & online
Hole In The Wall Entertainment Talkback Thames Editor, offline & online & mix.
Who Dares Wins Entertainment 12 Yard Editor, online
The Brit Awards Awards Show ITV Editor, offline & online
Hells Angels Documentary Wall to Wall Editor, online
Brainiac Science Abuse Health Granada Editor, online & grade
Eggheads Quiz / Game Show 12 Yard for BBC Editor, offline
Changing Rooms Property Endemol for BBC One Editor, offline
The Krypton Factor Quiz / Game Show ITV Editor, offline, online & grade & FX
Grand Designs Property Talkback Thames for Channel 4 Editor, offline & online
Formula 1 Sport Sky Sports Editor, offline & online
In It To Win It ‐ The National Lottery Quiz / Game Show 12 Yard for BBC One Editor, online
Brainiac History Abuse Factual Entertainment Granada for Sky 1 Editor, online
South Bank Show Documentary LWT Editor, online
Great British Spelling Test Educational Granada Editor, online
Get A New Life Observational Documentary Brighter Pictures for BBC Two Editor, offline
House Doctor Property Talkback Thames for FIVE Editor, offline
Property Ladder Property Talkback Thames for Channel 4 Editor, offline
The Weakest Link Quiz / Game Show BBC One & Two Editor, offline & online
Bitesize Music MTV Editor, offline & online
Life Doctor Science & Nature Talkback Thames for FIVE Editor, offline & online
Equipment Used :
Avid (all versions)
Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Media Encoder, Photoshop, Lightroom
DaVinci Resolve
Izotope RX
Employment History :
| Sarner Audio Visual | Aug 82 – Mar 84 | AV programmer / Sound recordist – First job. Good basics of the AV business |
| Carpenter Audio Visual | Mar 84 – Jul 86 | AV Technician – Staging shows and events |
| Skyport Video | Jul 86 – Dec 89 | Video editor – Mainly corporate work. Betacam and 1″. |
| Freelance | Dec 89 – present | Freelance editor. |
Qualifications :
BSc Degree in Technology (2:1) in 2014 with the Open University
Education :
Eton College 1977-1982, Open University 2008-2014
Additional Information :
Live Directing & Vision Mixing:
Formula 1 Digital TV: Pit Lane Channel (6 cameras), Track A Programme (20 cameras).
Various AGM and corporate conferences.
Interests/hobbies:
Time lapse photographer – www.LondonTimelapse.com
Stock Videographer and photographer
Skiing and fitness
Call +44 (0)7774 458598