Clever Edits is two people.

Jeremy’s career started in traditional television and post, then gradually moved toward bigger screens and stranger aspect ratios. Since then he has built content for broadcasts, brands, festivals, corporate events and live shows across the country. The through-line is still editorial: figuring out the story first, then figuring out how to make it work in whatever room it has to live in.

His work spans editing, motion graphics, 3D and real-time workflows in Unreal Engine, along with the live side of the job. That might mean a normal 16:9 piece one week and a stage wrapped in millions of pixels the next.

Most of the work comes down to problem-solving. Build something good, understand how it needs to work, and make sure it still works when the clock is running.

Steve started in live events on the rodeo circuit in Oregon and joined Jimmy Buffett’s tour in 2012 as an LED assistant. From there he worked his way through the video side of touring: building and rigging LED, engineering, media servers and programming. He has spent enough time around the physical side of shows to know when something that looks good on a screen is going to become a problem in the room.

He was also drawing long before he was building things in 3D. On the Buffett tour, a lot of his downtime was spent sketching on an iPad, and eventually those drawings started making their way into the show. Jeremy and the rest of the team would hand him ideas whenever they could find an excuse to use them.

That mix still describes what Steve does now. 2D illustration, 3D modeling, CAD, technical layouts and previs, backed by someone who has actually built LED, run cable, worked with structure and spent plenty of nights getting dirty on a show site.