Rafael Almeida

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Senior Video Editor with 7 years of experience delivering long-form educational content, podcasts, interviews, and promotional trailers for international digital-media and learning organisations.

About

Senior Video Editor with 7 years of experience delivering long-form educational content, podcasts, interviews, and promotional trailers for international digital-media and learning organisations. Experienced in managing high-volume post-production from ingest and proxy workflows through narrative editing, B-roll, captions, version control, review, export, and archiving. Advanced user of Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, with additional After Effects capability and practical experience building AI-assisted localisation and production workflows.

  • Joined May 2026

Languages

  • PortugueseFluent
  • EnglishFluent
  • Spanish; CastilianFluent

Industry experience

  • Education
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Non-Profit Organization
  • Professional Services

Projects · 2

Work experience· 8 roles

Video Editor (Contractor, Remote) · Conversation Design Institute (CDI)Nov 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Edited long-form educational videos, webinars, and podcasts from raw recordings to final delivery, including cuts, captions, audio cleanup, basic color correction, B-roll, graphics, and version control. Completed three course packages with 28, 17, and 60 lessons, improving course completion time to 1–2 months versus a prior 3-month cycle. Produced one-hour podcasts within one working day and typically delivered podcast and webinar edits within two days of recording. Built a promotional trailer by selecting and restructuring dialogue from existing recordings when no dedicated trailer script was available.

Video Lessons Editor (Contractor, Remote) · British School of Creative Arts and Technology (EBAC)Jul 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Delivered approximately one module per day (4–8 lessons) supporting a production target of five modules per week. Edited 4K recordings (~30 minutes, ~12 GB each) including audio cleanup, basic color correction, cuts, slides, reframing, intros, file naming, and 1920x1080 exports. Structured Premiere Pro projects by module and implemented scripted file naming to improve project speed, asset retrieval, version management, and compliance with delivery conventions. Designed and documented HeyGen workflows for lesson translation, lip-sync, and AI avatar production, then trained colleagues on avatar creation and AI-assisted video workflows.

Template Reviewer and Curator (Contractor, Remote) · Artlist Template Reviewer and CuratorJul 2022 – Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Reviewed 12–15 templates per day for Artlist and Motion Array, testing usability, creative quality, animation standards, technical performance, project structure, metadata, tags, and preview trailers. Served as the dedicated DaVinci Resolve specialist, redesigning template and macro packages to be easier to navigate, customize, and use without technical errors. Produced technical guidance and onboarding documentation, trained colleagues, and helped reduce support requests related to Artlist templates.

Video Editor and Motion Designer (Contractor, Remote) · Fluency AcademyJun 2022 – Feb 2023 · 9 mos
Trailer Video Editor (Contractor, Remote) · DomestikaAug 2021 – Mar 2022 · 8 mos
Education and Marketing Video Editor (Full-time, Remote) · EMME Education and MarketingOct 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos
Freelance Photographer and Videographer · State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 · 5 yrs 1 mo
Photographer & Videomaker · State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Education

Master's Degree in Science and Culture Communication · State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)2020 – 2024
Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication with Media Studies · State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)2014 – 2019

Certifications and awards

Introduction to DaVinci Resolve2022 – 2026
Assistant Directing for Audiovisual Production2023 – 2026

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