SHOWREEL 2026 — EDITOR & COLOURIST — SYDNEY
Fifteen years cutting light into time for the brands Australia watches.
M00 · 00:00:08:00 · THE REEL
EMBER (2026) | THE FINAL FIGHT — ORIGINAL AI SHORT FILM
WRITTEN · STORYBOARDED · RENDERED · EDITED · GRADED · SOUND DESIGN — DANIEL MATOTEK
Backyard ninja videos are how this started. The plan was always to make myself a superhero on screen, and for twenty years that was a daydream, because the genre belongs to people with a studio behind them. Not anymore. My own character, my own story, every frame generated from scratch. The model gives you fifteen seconds at a time and no memory of the shot before it, so holding one face and one light across nine minutes was an editing problem, not a generation one. The dream didn't change. The distance between wanting it and making it did.
THE COMMERCIAL REEL
M01 · 00:00:22:00 · COLOUR
COLOUR IS THE STORY
Grading is the last rewrite of the story. I work from log to look in DaVinci Resolve — protecting skin, building mood, matching formats from cinema plates to phone-shot social. The grade should be felt, not noticed.
DRAG TO GRADE — DAVINCI COLOUR REEL
M02 · 00:00:47:00 · EDIT + MOTION
THE CUT CARRIES IT
Fifteen years of broadcast TVCs, brand films and social-first cutdowns. Editing is subtraction — the frame you remove is as loaded as the one you keep. Motion graphics when the story needs them, never because the timeline looked empty.
M03 · 00:01:08:00 · AI + CREATIVE TECH
NEW LIGHT SAME EYE
AI is in my pipeline because clients ship faster now, not because it's a trend. Generative extension and cleanup inside real briefs, AI-assisted versioning at social scale, custom workflow tooling. Taste is still the moat.
GEN VIDEO · GEN FILL + EXTENSION · AI VERSIONING · WORKFLOW TOOLING
M04 · 00:01:18:00 · ABOUT
FIFTEEN YEARS IN THE SUITE
I've spent fifteen years in edit suites making work for the brands Australia watches — TVCs, brand films and social for agencies and direct clients. I grade in DaVinci Resolve, cut in Premiere, and build AI into the pipeline where it actually helps. The tools keep changing. The eye is the job.
POST STACK / 04 TRACKS
THE WORKING TIMELINE
MOVE ACROSS A LANE, OR USE ARROW KEYS, TO INSPECT THE CRAFT BEHIND THE TOOLS.
DaVinci Resolve — balancing difficult plates, protecting skin and building a finish that feels intentional without calling attention to the grade.
FAQ / BRIEF NOTES
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
What does Daniel Matotek do?
Daniel is a Sydney video editor and colourist. His current portfolio covers commercial editing, colour grading, motion graphics and AI-assisted post-production.
What kind of work is in the reel?
The reel includes broadcast TVCs, brand films and social-first cutdowns. Each project card identifies Daniel's role in edit, colour, motion or AI.
How can I discuss a project?
Email danielmatotek.editor@gmail.com with a brief, rough cut or hard deadline.
M05 · 00:01:26:00 · CONTACT
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