The next couple of blogs will introduce you to our team and we start off with our senior resident editor, Acen Razvi, as he tells us more about himself below:
Tell us about your background ?
That’s a big Q. I’ll break it down into 2 decades for you 
In my Teenwolf years, when Michael J Fox was in all the cool films ( the coolest being Back to Future 2) I started cutting illegally recorded music off the radio with twin cassette decks, this fascination with illegal music evolved into the start of my unexpected and totally unplanned music career in the 90′s.
I then built a recording studio which became my home for a decade, numerous records, a few rave anthems, many analog synthesizers later & my career naturally evolved from AUDIO into the fascination with VISUAL. I didn’t know it back then, but buying crates of vinyl every week to search for samples, painstakingly cutting and programming them to build my own tracks, became a solid foundation for my post production & cutting skills today.
We move into the 00′s, I experimented with numerous cameras; shot some short films & music promos. This was the dawn age of the NLE editing system, naturally Apple FCP was my first weapon of choice and I gravitated towards post production and my recording studio was transformed into an edit suite. Years of exploring post production and many edits later, I arrived here in sunny Dubai to join Alchemy Films.
What do you do to keep motivated/inspired ?
Generally – Money, Greed, Power & the formation of a New World Order.
Besides that I watch a lot of films and still find new tricks every day. It’s easy to get motivated by beautiful cinematic shots, especially shot on RED. The magic you create from marrying two shots together to tell a story is something I can’t explain. Overall, what inspires me the most, is laying down a piece of music with the shots on the timeline and watching as movie magic happens! Music alone can make or break an edit!
What interests you?
Good Food, Good Design, Good Music, Good conspiracy theories & Good Cinema! Also new Apple gear! Oh.. And any really useless expensive crap, that you just have to have.
Links to a few sites that you like:
With what I do technically, too many to list, but video co pilot is pretty cool, REDuser obviously, Vimeo for anything new but right now theonion.com (for killing render time) is fun.
What can you tell us about your process of editing RED footage and hurdles you have faced?
I’ve learnt that workflows change every few months with RED, it’s not worth getting tied down to one method, we had a great thing going with Apple Color last year but this year we met someone new, her name is REDCineX & she has a friend called flut. Overall very pleased with the new MX sensor and now with Epic on the way, we are pushing the frontiers of digital cinema into the realms of the unknown… allegedly.
Tell us something we don’t know about you?
If I did I would have to kill you.
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