Rob Bonstin

Work History

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  Editor

  Freelance

  September 2019 - Present

  Worldwide

  Editor, motion graphics and visual effects artist and post production for a variety of short form projects. I can create a wide variety of content with video, graphics, animation and audio and sound design.
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  Video Technician

  Magnit

  July 2024 - July 2025

  Sunnyvale, CA

• Senior Visual Effects Editor

  Assembly.tv

  May 2022 - June 2023
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  Visual Effects Editor

  Method Studios

  May 2021 - May 2022
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  Senior Visual Effects Editor

  Base FX

  May 2018 - July 2019

  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian Season 1, Aquaman, Skyfire
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  associate editor

  Lucasfilm

  June 2017 - April 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Star Wars: Resistance
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  visual effects editor

  Industrial Light & Magic

  October 2014 - May 2017

  San Francisco, CA

  Transformers: The Last Knight, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows, Deepwater Horizon, Jurassic World
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  VFX Editor

  Atomic Fiction

  June 2016 - October 2016

  Oakland, California

  I served as Visual Effects Editor and I/O &Data; Wrangler for the Visual Effects productions in Oakland and Montreal. Responsibilities included updating the VFX shots as the film edit progressed using the Shotgun production tracking system, RV media playback and Avid Media Composer. I maintained the background plate edit for film sequences for the Visual Effects Supervisor. I also managed the plate deliveries and quality control from the client.
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  Videographer, VFX Artist, Editor

  Freelance

  May 2013 - August 2015

  Currently freelancing as a Videographer, VFX Artist and Editor for a wide variety of clients and projects. As a veteran of post production for feature films and television, I've filled a variety of roles as an editor, VFX artist, Post Production Supervisor and general production and technical support. I recently worked with HBO and Deluxe on the HBO series "Looking"​ as technical support for the editorial and production departments. I've also recently completed some small video editing jobs from home using Premier Pro and Adobe Creative Cloud. I've also recently returned to Lucasfilm and ILM as a projectionist in one of the digital cinema theaters, performing the setup and operation of Christie 4K digital projectors and sourcing from the DVS Pronto.
  
  Some of my clients include:
  
  Lucasfilm
  HBO
  Deluxe
  Gail & Rice
  Juniper Networks
  Pen to Pixels
  Lucasey Manufacturing
  JL Builders & Associates
  Studio 880
  Rock Nation
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  Projectionist

  Industrial Light & Magic

  February 2014 - October 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Served as a projectionist in one of the dailies theaters. My responsibilities included setting up the theater for digital dailies and presentations. I was responsible for operating 2K and 4K Christie digital projectors for the various ILM productions screening 2D and 3D material. Operated various teleconferencing systems to connect the San Francisco productions with remote production offices for ILM worldwide. Maintained proper calibration of the projectors and playback systems to ensure the proper color and light settings for any and all types of digital cinema display.
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  Senior Technical Operator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  March 1999 - April 2013

  As Senior Technical Operator in the Media Operations Department of ILM, I worked with the team in the Master Control Room (MCR) which houses the digital video I/O infrastructure for most all the LucasFilm divisions in the SF Bay Area. Our main tasks were video mastering and duplication for ILM, Lucasfilm Animation, LucasArts and LucasFilm. One of our primary functions was the final conform and mastering of the Clone Wars animated series. We were also a large part of the various digital restoration and re-mastering projects of the Star Wars films, as well as other LucasFilm Properties. We of course were also closely involved in all of the ILM feature Visual Effects projects, performing digital transcoding for plate photography and motion capture 'witnesscam', as well as final video shot backups.
  
  Our primary tools are Sony HDCAM SR VTR's, Autodesk Smoke, DVS Clipster and Mac workstations. Our main tasks are editing and conform, HD loading and transcoding, digital video duplication to various formats such as Blu-Ray and DVD among others.

• Editor

  Studio 880

  1992 - 2011

  Alameda, CA

  Occasional freelance feature and music video editing for Studio 880

• Chief Technical Assistant

  Western Images

  February 1994 - March 1999

  Assisted editors, compositors and colorists during post production with clients, as well as trained new Technical Assistants in MCR operations.