I am a Berlin-based video producer and editor with over three decades of experience crafting online clips, news segments, and promotional videos. I thrive on turning raw footage into engaging content for YouTube, TikTok, and broadcast, and I enjoy collaborating with journalists and editors across the globe to tell compelling stories. I excel under tight deadlines, manage multi-camera edits, and implement efficient workflows for multilingual content. My work spans live TV clips, long-format interviews, promotional reels, and social media shorts, with a passion for clear storytelling and polished visuals.…

Corbett Santana

I am a Berlin-based video producer and editor with over three decades of experience crafting online clips, news segments, and promotional videos. I thrive on turning raw footage into engaging content for YouTube, TikTok, and broadcast, and I enjoy collaborating with journalists and editors across the globe to tell compelling stories. I excel under tight deadlines, manage multi-camera edits, and implement efficient workflows for multilingual content. My work spans live TV clips, long-format interviews, promotional reels, and social media shorts, with a passion for clear storytelling and polished visuals.…

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I am a Berlin-based video producer and editor with over three decades of experience crafting online clips, news segments, and promotional videos. I thrive on turning raw footage into engaging content for YouTube, TikTok, and broadcast, and I enjoy collaborating with journalists and editors across the globe to tell compelling stories.

I excel under tight deadlines, manage multi-camera edits, and implement efficient workflows for multilingual content. My work spans live TV clips, long-format interviews, promotional reels, and social media shorts, with a passion for clear storytelling and polished visuals.

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Video Editor at Start Your Productions GmbH
February 1, 2024 - February 1, 2024
Edited YouTube, TikTok and Instagram shorts; covered current affairs and sports; collaborated with a broadcast journalist; adhered to multiple corporate designs; optimized workflow with SRT files for foreign language clips; TikTok channels accumulated over 1 million views.
Video Editor at RT Deutsch
December 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022
Edited news clips for live television broadcasts; worked under extreme time pressure to meet tight deadlines; contributed to long-format interview programming; edited multi-camera sequences (2-3 cameras) in Premiere Pro under tight deadlines.
Freelance Video Editor / Night Guide at Television Reports – Bus Tour, TVBerlin
May 1, 2017 - May 1, 2017
Edited clips of a moderator with a tour bus touring Berlin for regular television broadcasts; met weekly deadlines.
Freelance Video Editor, Production Manager/Production Advisor at WF1 Berlin TV
April 1, 2015 - April 1, 2015
Edited promotional clips; production of telemarketing shows; interviews with local artists; covered the Berlin Press Ball 2014; Tele-Shop Demo Video Clip.
Social Media Manager/YouTube Channel Manager and Video Editor at Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (ICD)
April 1, 2013 - April 1, 2013
Edited lectures and interviews; edited 50-65 clips per weekend; organized and uploaded finished clips to the organization's YouTube site.
Video Editor / Cutter at TIP TV Berlin
September 1, 1997 - September 1, 1997
Edited video reports with very short deadlines; program aired on ORB (now RBB); associated with POLY LUX; collaboration with Carsten van Ryssen; Russia – heute show ZDF.
Video Editor/Video Technician at Concept AV
December 1, 1994 - December 1, 1994
Video transfers and editing; rebuilt video transfer facility; edited news, spots, commercials, promotional videos, music videos, TV projects, and industrial films; first digital editing experience; proficient with AVID 1.1; familiar with many programs including Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects and Audition.

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Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Telecommunications
    uniE608 EU-Africa Forum on Cultural Diplomacy name correction
    A promotion video for the meeting EU-Africa Forum on Cultural Diplomacy…
    uniE608 Malaysia Embassy - 7 November 2024
    Covering and event at the Malaysia Embassy. Filmed and edited by Corbett Santana…
    uniE608 MOKATO Africian Culture Salon RELOADED 10 November 2025 @ Bi Null Opening Sequence Part 1
    MOKATO Africian Salon RELOADED 10 November 2025 @ Bi Nul Opening - Sequence Part 1 Organized by Mahide Lein AhoiArts & Events https://www.twine.net/signin We celebrate the legendary African cultural salons MoKATO organized from November 2000 to August 2002, for its 25th anniversary with "MoKATO reloaded", in the former KATO, now BiNUU in the Ubf-Schlesisches Tor. Opening - Sequence Part 1 BiniZion & Hassan Elmalik - Part 2 Rasdonovan - Part 3 Lath M’baye Toro M’baye & Moussa Coulibaly Part 4 Toro Balafon Moussa Coulibaly - Djembe - Part 5 Tanja Becker - Trombone Sasha Pushkin - Keyboard Moussa Coulibaly - Balafon Part 6 Djatou Touré Moussa Sasha Pushkin - Keyboard Regis Molina - Sax - Part 7 MoKATO has created a new cultural bridge at the former East-West border which our very different yet somehow similar cultural worlds brought them together. MoKATO offered an opportunity to make Berlin more multicultural close. Activists meet artists and cultural workers, exchange ideas, and look forward to a wide-ranging collaboration with cosmopolitan people. Initial discussions took place here, which then spread to other projects. The MoKATO regular meeting, with its salon-like atmosphere, struck a balance between the audience, the stage program, and the open microphone for news, promotions and stories. MOKATO Africian Salon RELOADED 10 November 2025 @ Bi Nul…