Paul L.
Video Editor and YouTube Guru
Hello! My name is Paul. I'm a video editing, YouTube, and Audio editing guru. My exposure to video began by playing drums for 2 nationally touring bands and tour managing for artists on Columbia and Atlantic records, which has taken me through every major city in the US dozens of times on tours as well as the main stage of Lollapalooza, South by So What, and other festivals. The world of music first launched me into the art of video shooting/editing and it has become a true passion of mine alongside writing and playing music! NOTEWORTHY CLIENTS: -NCAA -Lullify -Adobe Experience Cloud -Bilmuri (Columbia Records Artist) -Knox (Atlantic Records Artist) -Reelarc -Purdue University -Vertimax From being a consultant for Adobe Experience Cloud's YouTube strategy and rollout plan to building and populating Lullify's YouTube channel (over 500 videos and 3.5 million+ views) to producing, uploading, and optimizing a dozen podcasts I have experience with a bit of everything YouTube has to offer. A little bit more about me: EDUCATION: -Finance and Entrepreneurship double major (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business) -Creative Writing minor (Indiana University) EXPERIENCE -Over a decade of professional freelance video shooting, editing, and YouTube work -Professional audio engineering/mixing/mastering -I've worked on over a dozen Podcasts both on and off YouTube -I've set up/optimized dozens of YouTube channels from scratch and "flipped" even more to boost the performance of existing channels -Tour management for labeled acts with such responsibilities as settling with venues, advancing technical plots and documents, coordinating with bus companies and drivers, plotting national tour routes, booking all travel logistics for a crew of 11, crisis mitigation, etc. -Cofounder of an Indianapolis-based digital media marketing company shooting, editing, and rolling out video and photo content for clients in the area -Color grading for various video projects -Teaching Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects to clients -Audio recovery and enhancement MY TOOLSET I have extensive experience with video editing and animation in -Adobe After Effects -Adobe Premiere Pro -Adobe Photoshop -Studio One 5 (audio software) -Notion -YouTube Studio and analytics If your project is dynamic and needs the eye of multi-disciplinary experience, I might be a good fit for your team! Shoot me a message on Upwork and let's talk about how we can achieve success for your project.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $8.5k
Billed in all: $87,033$87k
$1.2k in the last 6 months
Across 8 contracts
Across 148 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 5% in YouTube Development
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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