Podcast & Wedding Editor since 2021

What I care about most is pacing. Whether a cut holds someone or loses them is decided in fractions of a second, and getting that right is the part of this work I enjoy more than anything else. Colour, sound design, transitions — for me they all exist to serve it.

I didn't come up through film school. I studied industrial engineering, picked up a camera in 2021, and learned everything since by doing it. More than 40 wedding films, 100+ reels and shorts for business clients, a handful of retainer clients I work with month to month. No course, no mentor — just far more footage than was reasonable and a habit of being honest with myself about what didn't land. Two of those client videos have since passed 1.8 and 2.4 million views.

The year I'm proudest of: I was the editor behind High Energy Mind, a weekly YouTube podcast with around 7,750 subscribers. Roughly 50 long-form episodes, one every single week, plus the short-form clips cut from each. I delivered most of it from the road — eight months of travelling, different countries, different wifi, same weekly deadline. I didn't miss one.

That year also taught me sound. I came from wedding film, where you build everything around the image. Podcasts work the other way round: people will forgive an ordinary frame and leave instantly over bad audio. So I learned mixing properly — cleanup, levels, getting two voices to sit in the same room. It's now the part of my work I'd point to first, and it's where I'm useful in a way a lot of editors aren't: picture and sound both come from me, so nothing gets handed off or half-finished.

And because I'm still regularly behind a camera myself (Sony FX3, drone licence), I know what a shooter can and can't hand me. That turns most feedback into a two-line message instead of a call.

DaVinci Resolve, long-form and short-form, at my best on a recurring schedule rather than one-off projects. Native German and Turkish, fluent English.