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Luke Williams

Film Digitization Manager
Brooklyn,NY

Summary

Trained in 16mm film production and editing before the age of digital, along with a personal preferece for scanning images and film for archival and use in the digital field I have been able to lead the film department at one of the top digitization studios in New York for the last 3 years. I am working to broaden my skills and to work for an institute where preservation comes before profit.

Overview

7
7
years of post-secondary education
25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Film Manager

DiJIFi
Brooklyn, NY
07.2018 - Current

Redesigned workflow of department after repeated turnover. Acquired new equipment to increase production by 4 times. Cleaned, repaired, and digitized film to weekly average of 8,000 ft a week. Digitized optical and magnetic soundtracks and synchronized to the image for finale output. Supervised and reviewed the post-production of the final output of the digitized film. Customer service with clients and obtained new clients for the forthcoming months explaining our work flow in layman's terms.

Image Digitization

Williams Productions
Seattle, WA
01.2007 - 01.2017
  • Filmed, edited, and delivered finished wedding videos on DVD or VHS.
  • Edited home video footage & still images to create memorial and Birthday videos.
  • Recorded live audio with Nagra and DAT for wild effects tracks to be used in edited videos, Organized and scanned 10,000+ images from prints, slides and negatives.
  • Adjusted over 30% of the images in Photoshop and Lightroom.
  • Scanned & archived 3000+ document of a to multiple formats Using technology to unlock forgotten memories.

Video Archival

Self Employeed
Seattle, WA
01.2005 - 01.2017
  • Digitized 5,000+ hours of media from multiple formats: VHS, Laserdisc, Mini DV, etc.
  • Authoring DVD with menu creation and interactive video from analog video formats.
  • Optimized captured video for archival storage in multiple compression codecs.

Education

Associate of Science - Filmmaking

Minneapolis Community And Technical College
Minneapolis, MN
09.1996 - 05.2001

Associate of Science - Screenwriting

Minneapolis Community And Technical College
Minneapolis, MN
01.1998 - 05.2000

Skills

Film cleaning and handling

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Affiliations

Film North Forum Northwest Film Forum Minneapolis

911 Media Arts Seattle

Timeline

Film Manager

DiJIFi
07.2018 - Current

Image Digitization

Williams Productions
01.2007 - 01.2017

Video Archival

Self Employeed
01.2005 - 01.2017

Associate of Science - Screenwriting

Minneapolis Community And Technical College
01.1998 - 05.2000

Associate of Science - Filmmaking

Minneapolis Community And Technical College
09.1996 - 05.2001
Luke WilliamsFilm Digitization Manager