Robert Buchanan

Additional Capability

There’s a Difference Between Footage and a Video.

Video editing and motion graphics for turning raw footage, stills, voiceover, music, graphics, and assorted ingredients into something with a point of view — and a reason to keep watching.

RoleVideo editing, sequencing, pacing, voiceover, titles, branded graphics, motion graphics, visual cleanup, and final production
ToolsAdobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, audio resources, and vector-based motion / logo animation
ScopeI don’t shoot the footage. Once the footage exists, I’m comfortable owning the process that turns it into the finished piece.

How I approach video

The camera is usually someone else’s problem.

What happens after someone hands me the footage is another story.

I’m not a cinematographer, and I don’t position myself as a dedicated video-production specialist. What I do bring is the ability to take raw footage and supporting assets and shape them into a finished communication piece — editing the story, controlling the pace, recording or integrating voiceover, selecting music, building titles and branded graphics, animating logos and vector elements, cleaning up visuals, and preparing the final output.

That overlap with design matters. A video still needs hierarchy, rhythm, visual consistency, restraint, and a clear idea of what the audience should understand when it is over.

Having footage is not the same thing as having a video. The edit is where the pile of ingredients finally decides what it wants to say.

Selected video work

Different subjects. Same job: make the story move.

The examples below span product communication, corporate storytelling, manufacturing processes, property marketing, and technical subjects. Except for shooting the footage itself, the post-production work represented here was mine wherever it appears in the finished piece.

Product Overview

WiTricity AI Tech, LLC — The MR/1 Wireless EV Charging System

A product-focused piece built to make a technical charging system understandable, polished, and useful as a customer-facing introduction.

  • Editing & sequencing
  • Voiceover
  • Branded graphics
  • Audio / music
  • Visual cleanup

Corporate Storytelling

IDI Composites International — Corporate Video

A broader company story where the edit has to create structure from multiple kinds of footage, messages, and visual material without turning the result into a narrated brochure.

  • Story sequencing
  • Pacing
  • Titles & graphics
  • Audio / music
  • Final production

Product Description

Leading Lights — Product Description Video

A straightforward product communication piece where timing, visual emphasis, graphics, and narration work together to explain what the product is without making the audience work harder than necessary.

  • Editing
  • Titles
  • Asset creation
  • Music / audio
  • Export

Manufacturing / Process

IDI Composites International — Small Part Compression Molding

A process-oriented video where the edit needs to make technical manufacturing footage easier to follow, keeping the sequence clear without sanding all of the detail out of the subject.

  • Process sequencing
  • Pacing
  • Titles & graphics
  • Visual cleanup
  • Audio / music
  • Final export

Property Marketing

Encore 55+ Boutique Apartments — Property Overview

A lifestyle and property-marketing piece where the job is less about explaining a technical process and more about pacing imagery, music, graphics, and information into an experience that feels inviting rather than assembled.

  • Editing & pacing
  • Music / audio
  • Branded graphics
  • Titles
  • Visual polish
  • Final production

Technical Product Story

IDI Composites International — Ultrium Carbon Fiber Composites

A technical product story that combines footage, messaging, graphics, and editorial pacing to give a specialized material a clearer visual narrative than specifications alone can provide.

  • Editing
  • Sequencing
  • Branded graphics
  • Motion elements
  • Audio / export

What this capability adds

I don’t need video to be my entire job for it to be part of the answer.

Sometimes the assignment needs a campaign. Sometimes a brochure. Sometimes a website. And sometimes the clearest way to explain the product, process, property, or story is to put it in motion.

I’m comfortable enough with editing and motion graphics to take that work through the finish line without pretending I’m something I’m not.

Someone else can worry about the camera. I’m interested in what the footage becomes after the record button stops.