For the past fifteen years, Paddy Bird has edited dozens of prime time documentary, entertainment and reality TV shows for British and American television. He has worked on various seasons of format shows including X Factor, Big Brother, Wife Swap and Secret Millionaire, while at the same time editing high-end political, historical and observational documentaries. Paddy is a voting member of the prestigious BAFTA Editing Chapter and has spent many years teaching the craft of editing at Soho Editors, Europe’s largest post production training center.

His most recent project is Inside The Edit, a highly specialized training program that has been developed over three years by a prime time editing team working at the highest level of television.

“Inside the Edit is basically the world’s first creative editing course. We teach editors the actual craft with a selection of 200 tutorials on ‘editing documentaries’. We go through, in absolute fine detail, every single creative journalistic and stylization feature, showing them the skills to become a prime time editor. And all of this is done on Avid Media Composer.”