Matt Chavez

01The reel

Tell me about the project.
I'll tell you what it takes.

Freelance video editing, color correction, and motion graphics. Eight years behind the cut for Weber, Pillsbury, and AstraZeneca. Quick turnaround.

Send a brief or book 15 minutes Taking projects now

02Selected work

Selected video editing work

16:9 · TV, corporate, brand

AstraZeneca · Video editor · Corporate video

Weber · Video editor · Social ads · Staff

Sun Basket · Video editor · TV spot, :30 · Staff

Doc's Diesel · Video editor · Brand film

9:16 · Vertical social, sizzle

Fireside Chats · Sizzle reel for Cesar Millan's channel

Brez · Video editor · Social ad, 9:16

Golden Steer · Video editor · Social ad, 9:16

Fireside Chats · Video editor · Sizzle reel, 9:16

4:5 · Feed ads, recipe, sizzle

Pillsbury · Video editor, production · Recipe video

Pillsbury · Video editor, production · Recipe video

Sun Basket · Video editor · Social ad, 4:5 · Staff

Personal Branding · Video editor · Founder sizzle, 4:5

03What I do

Video editing

I cut social ads, organic feeds, recipe videos, corporate, commercials, and sizzle reels. From the footage you have, shot on anything.

Quick turnaround. Two revision rounds included.

Motion graphics

Titles, lower thirds, animated type, logo stings, captions. Built in the same timeline as the edit, so the type moves with the footage.

Color correction

Every cut I deliver leaves graded: cameras matched, skin clean, one look across the whole campaign. Available on its own for footage cut elsewhere.

Sizzle reels + channel packaging

Highlight cuts that sell a show, a channel, or a face.

04Turnaround and terms

Turnaround and terms.

  • Quick turnaround.
  • Two revision rounds included.
  • Rush available.
  • One flat number per project, priced from the brief.
  • Taking projects now.

Send a brief or book 15 minutes

05Set change

The kitchen set pulls away as the light changes and the room becomes a party

Set change.

Sun Basket, "Food Makes Me Dance." Three social campaigns and a TV spot from one shoot. Produced, shot, edited.

In-house production, made on staff at Sun Basket

A couple sits down to eat. The kitchen pulls away, the light shifts, and the room becomes a party. Every hand and every hour that got it there, in nine steps.

Open the case study· 9 steps

06End credits

Clients and credits

Sun Basket
June Oven
Weber
Pillsbury
AstraZeneca
Brez
Golden Steer
Fireside Chats
Doc's Diesel
RAPS, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society
Full credits· 11 rows
Sun BasketProducer, director, video editorStaff
June OvenVideo editor, producerStaff
WeberVideo editorStaff
PillsburyVideo editor, production
AstraZenecaVideo editor
BrezVideo editor
Golden SteerVideo editor
Fireside ChatsSizzle reels
Doc's DieselVideo editor
RAPSVideo editor
Personal brandingVideo editor, sizzle reels

Staff marks a full-time role. Everything else was client work.

07How I work

How I work.

Matt Chavez, freelance video editor, on set operating a cinema camera rig

Eight years on both sides of the lens. I ran video at two venture-backed brands, Sun Basket and June Oven. Freelance video editor for the rest. Hand me the brief and the date and I carry the rest. Open to freelance projects and contract roles, remote or on site in Philadelphia and the Bay Area.

  • I read every brief myself. You'll hear back the same day, almost always.
  • I hit the date. CPG and pharma review included.
  • The number in the quote is the number on the invoice.

After eight years of food brands, I still plate my own dinner like it's about to be shot.

08Questions

Before you write.

Can you cut from footage I already have?

Yes. Phone, mirrorless, cinema camera, footage someone else shot. Send what exists and I will tell you what it can carry before I quote.

What do you need to start?

A brief, your brand assets and colors, and the deadline. Rough is fine. I ask for anything else on the first call.

What counts as a revision round?

One consolidated set of notes on a cut, from everyone who needs to weigh in. Two rounds are included in every quote. A third is a flat add-on, named before it starts.

How does rush work?

Put the date in the brief. The quote says whether it is possible and what it adds, as one flat number, always.

Who owns the files?

You own everything: the finished masters and the project files. I keep the right to show the work in my portfolio.

How do you deliver?

Every cut and every final lands in Frame.io, where your notes go frame by frame. Formats and specs get set on the first call: 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, captions, broadcast.

Do you work with agencies?

Yes, white-label and unbranded when you need it. Retainers and monthly capacity are set on the first call.

09Send a brief

Send a brief

Tell me what you need made. Rough is fine.

Rather talk first? Book 15 minutes. Bring what you have.

  1. BriefYou send a few lines. Formats, quantity, what footage exists.
  2. QuoteI reply the same day, almost always, with a flat number and a delivery date.
  3. First cutQuick turnaround. Two revision rounds included.

Three Required Fields · Reply the same day, almost always