Sandip MahalEdit AssistantEditor, JuniorPost Production Supervisor | |||
| PROFILE | |||
Sandip is a post production professional with 20 years of experience, covering the entire workflow process from start to finish. Versatile, skilled, and easy to work with, he has extensive experience across a wide range of NLEs, including Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, and FCPX. Sandip is technically proficient in editing, ingesting, and Multicam workflows, and has worked across various genres at numerous post-production houses.
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| EXPERIENCE: Credits | |||
| Sammy Davis Jr at the BBC | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Kim Wilde at the BBC | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Jasper Carrott Remembers | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Talking Pictures, The Silence of the Lambs | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Talking Pictures, The Godfather Trilogy | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Paul Lewis Remembers Alfred Brendel | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Stephen Poliakoff Remembers Shooting the Past | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Oasis at the BBC | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Dexy's Midnight Runners at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Whitney Houston at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Michael Aspel Remembers The War Game | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Helen Mirren Remembers The Little Minister | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| ELO at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Patrick Marber Remembers After Miss Julie | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Eyewitness to History: Norma Percy | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| 40 Hits of 1985 at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Billy Joel at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Bruce Springsteen at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Dad's Army at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Jimmy McGovern Remembers Priest | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Stephen Poliakoff Remembers Perfect Strangers | BBC Four | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| 30 Hits of 1988 at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| The Farang | Manque | Film Trailer | Editor |
| Maggie Smith at the BBC | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| WWWW 1984 | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais Remember | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Boy Bands at the BBC | BBC Four | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Sad Songs at the BBC | BBC Four | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Phillip Glenister Remembers Life on Mars | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Jed Mercurio Remembers Line of Duty | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Lady Gaga at the BBC | BBC Four | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Courage Under Fire | TBA | Documentary | Editor |
| Girls Aloud at the BBC | BBC Four | Music | Edit Assistant |
| Stalking: State of Fear | Clover Films for ITV | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Ride the Snake | Balhar Films | Feature Film | Editor |
| Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Gladys Knight at the BBC | BBC Four | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Terry Hall at the BBC | BBC Four | Music Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Peaky Blinders Intro Intro | BBC Four | Drama | Edit Assistant |
| Eyewitness to History: Norma Percy on The Fifty Years War | BBC Four | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Warriors Intro Intro | BBC Four | Drama | Edit Assistant |
| Celebrity Hunted Series 6 | Channel 4 | Entertainment | Assembly Editor |
| BBC Showcase 2022/2023 | BBC Studios | Events | Edit Assistant |
| Sounds of Liverpool At The BBC | BBC Two | Music | Edit Assistant |
| The King’s Christmas Broadcast | BBC One | Events | Edit Assistant |
| A Countryside Winter | BBC One | Factual Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| At The BBC Including Aretha Franklin, Shirley Bassey, Burt Bacharach, Fleetwood Mac, Mary Blige, Stock, Aitkin and Waterman, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Cleo Laine, Kylie Minogue, Bryan Ferry, Queen, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Trevor Horn, The Spice Girls, Beyonce, Duran Duran, Dionne Warwick and Whitney. | BBC Four | Music | Edit Assistant |
| Talking Pictures Villains, War Stories, Joan Collins, Glenda Jackson and Film’s Family Favourites. | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Frontline: Leaving Afghanistan | WGBH Boston | Current Affairs | Edit Assistant |
| LGBTQ Hits at the BBC | BBC Four | Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Bake Off: The Professionals | Channel 4 | Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Enslaved | BBC Two | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Urban Monologues | YouTube | Comedy | Editor & Director |
| What We Were Watching | BBC Four | Factual Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Mungbeaners Series 1 & 2 10 x short sketches | YouTube | Comedy | Editor |
| A Place to Stay | Short Film | Drama | Editor |
| The Noughties | BBC Two | Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Kitchen Brigade | Expectation Ent for BBC Two | Factual Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Glow Up | Wall To Wall for BBC Three | Factual Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Dinner With My Ex | Thames TV | Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Couples Goals | Thames TV for E4 | Reality TV | Edit Assistant |
| Lenny at 60 | BBC One | Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Busing | Top Hat Prods | Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| The Week That Wasn’t | Avalon for Sky One | Comedy | Edit Assistant |
| The Voice Kids | ITV | Light Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Cruising With Jane McDonald: Christmas Special | Elephant House Prods for Five | Factual Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Great British Menu | Optomen for BBC Two | Food | Edit Assistant |
| Inside The Ambulance | Brown Bob Prods for W Channel | Observational Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Creative | Channel 5 | Promo | Edit Assistant |
| Gogglebox | Studio Lambert for Channel 4 | Light Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| Newzoids | ITV | Comedy | Edit Assistant |
| Hunted Series 2 | Princess Prods for Channel 4 | Factual Entertainment | Edit Assistant |
| American Monster | Arrow Media for Discovery | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Secret Life Of Dogs | Arrow Media for Channel 4 | Observational Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Battle Of Britain | Arrow Media for Channel 4 | Historical Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| See No Evil Series 2 | Arrow Media for Discovery | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| I Shouldn't Be Alive | Darlow Smithson for Discovery | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking | Darlow Smithson | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Concorde's Last Flight | Darlow Smithson for Channel 4 | Documentary | Edit Assistant |
| Smash Lab Series 1 & 2 | Darlow Smithson for Discovery | Reality TV | Edit Assistant |
| Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections | Darlow Smithson for BBC Two | Science | Edit Assistant |
| Hanif Kureishi introduces Buddha of Suburbia | BBC Four | Documentary | Editor |
| Charlie Watts at the BBC | BBC Two | Music Documentary | Editor |
| Thick Torn Curtains Dir: Usha Sharma | Short Film | Editor | |
| Tribute to Arthur Dir: Usha Sharma | Short Film | Editor | |
| Cost of Freedom Dir: Usha Sharma | Short Film | Editor | |
| Jim Dir: Marc Senior | Channel 4 | Pilot | Editor |
| The Suffering Church Dir: James Agha | Zeroheadroom Ltd | Documentary | Editor |
| Pitch Videos | Espiritus Productions USA | Various | Editor |
| UK Residents Only Dir: Tarun Thind | Resource Productions | Short Film | Editor |
| Kristina 1 x 60mins. Dir: Pat Garrett | C.J Cookson Productions | Drama | Editor |
| The Incredibly Strange People Show Dir: Jason De L’orme | Powercage films | Comedy | Editor |
| The Sandwich Premiered at the London International Film Festival 2002 | Paperknife Productions | Feature Film | Editor |
| Hearts of Slough | Paperknife Productions | Feature Film | Editor |
| Rent Premiered at the London International Film Festival 1999. Dir: Asham Kamboj | Paperknife Productions | Feature Film | Editor |
| CONTACT DETAILS |
For all bookings please call (+44) 020 7287 6110 or email hello@tovs.co.uk
| QUALIFICATIONS |
City and Guilds 770 Certificate in Video and Media Techniques
City of Westminster College, London, 1991 – 1993
| EQUIPMENT |
Edit Packages: Avid Media Composer, FCPX, Adobe Premiere.
Software Packages: Compressor, Adobe Media Encoder, Photoshop, FTP Uploads/ Downloads, Episode, storage networks: Avid unity.
Broadcast Rec/playback machines: Digi-Beta, Beta SP, DVCam.
Workflows: Offloading camera cards, ingesting all camera cards, backing up master media, grouping and syncing multicams, file management, master archive pasting, editing multicam rushes, assembly editing, technical reviews.
Client Facing Skills: Liaising with broadcasters, media management, prepping media for Online facilities and post workflow troubleshooting.
| ADDITIONAL INFO |
WORKS at VARIOUS FACILITIES and PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
BBC TMO (Post Production Supervisor)
Sandip has been worked in BBC TMO as a postproduction supervisor in the Factual Acquisitions department where he has managed deliveries of master material from external suppliers who have to adhere to specific delivery requirements including audio stems and fonts where he has then had to manage the compliance workflow and then create and deliver broadcast compliant AS-11 files to transmission. Many of these titles delivered were fast turnaround with shortened timeframes to work from.
Wag TV (Edit Assistant)
Avalon Television (Edit Assisting)
Top Hat Productions (Grouping and Syncing)
Optomen Productions (Grouping and Syncing- Avid)
Channel 5/ creative (Adobe Premiere)
Prime Focus (Trailer Captioning All BBC Channels)
Platform Post (Edit Assistant)
Princess Productions (Data Wrangling/ Edit prep- Avid)
Rapid Pictures (Edit assistant-Avid)
Envy Post Production (edit assistant-Avid)
Arrow Media (edit assistant-Avid)
Support Partners (edit/ Workflow support- AdobeCC,FCP7/X)
Espiritus Productions USA (editor-FCPX)
Clearcut Pictures (edit assistant- Avid)
Princess Productions (audio track laying-Avid)
Tiger Aspect (edit assistant-Avid)
Darlow Smithson (edit assistant-FCP/ Avid)
BBC Factual (edit assistant)
Ogilvy and Mather (v.t.op/editor-Avid dv xpress)
Visual Voodoo (edit assistant, Avid)
Soho Images (v.t. op)