Patrick Meraz

Born and raised in Chicago, Patrick has always loved films and his love for cinema grew as he discovered the teachings behind filmmaking.

During his highschool years, he was given the pleasure of taking a production class in which he learned about digital video editing. The class provided iMovie and Final Cut Pro programs to practice on. After graduating high school, he attended Tribeca Flashpoint Academy in downtown Chicago, IL. He learned all aspects of filmmaking for digital video including directing, producing, cinematography, screenwriting, and different on set tasks. He then graduated with a A.A.S degree within the Film/Broadcast program with a focus in editing.

In 2015, Patrick moved to Los Angeles, CA to pursue his editing career within the film industry. On his spare time he likes learning new post production programs, going to the movies, reading filmmaking books, and working on side film projects with his friends.

Post Experience:

Patrick's editing experience includes a mass variety of projects like short films, a 48-hour project, music videos, promotional videos, and one independent feature. He even edit personal short films for festival submissions and also for his Vimeo channel.

Patrick's has worked with FCP7, FCPX, AVID, Adobe CC Pr Offline/Online video editing, color correction (Apple Color and Resolve LTE), logging data, media duplications/backups, transcoding, compressing, on edit sound adjustments, independent distribution (digital or DVD copies) and VFX via After Effects. He also have assistant editing experience from a well known trailer house which included tasks like trailer finishing preps, over cuts, music cue sheets, scenes assembling, string outs, stock footage research, wire drive postings, and client mitigations.

He hopes to meet future collaborators on this site to make more films!