Hi! I’m Marko, video editor and camera operator.

My journey started in Zagreb, Croatia. As a youngster, I really enjoyed playing the piano. A few years later, I picked up the guitar and started to record my own compositions using various computer programs, such as Ableton Live and Cubase. I also composed music using MIDI controllers and various music-notation programs. A short sound-recoding course followed, after which I started to work for a local television in 2007. 

The second day of work, our production manager escorted me straight into the studio, and placed me behind a camera to record live-to-air. At first, operating professional equipment came as a bit of a shock, but then I got so accustomed to it that it turned into a routine. The fun part was to shake a camera a bit—while on air—to prove to a friend of mine that I was actually there.

Eventually, a sound-engineer position opened up, and I gladly took it, realizing that it will perfectly complement my efforts in music composition. I could already see myself bathe in the profits of my own finely crafted music, but … life does not happen quite like that. Using compressors and limiters, adjusting recording levels and driving faders and knobs for a TV program did not turn out to be as “electrifying” as producing my own music … except when I had to adjust a microphone for somebody famous. 

By then, I have already started to admire video editors as “the coolest people” in the world: their process of assembling images went hand-in-hand with my music composing process. Becoming an editor would mean that along with combining various music ideas and fragments into a composition, I could also assemble video clips into a story-telling sequence. Well, that was it: I wanted to learn how to edit! 

Soon enough I was given the opportunity: I was offered an video editor position. It was in this very job that I started to like working on TV and this was the position in which I blossomed, thrived, discovered the potential. Although I was doing a lot of political reports/programs, I was also creating promotional based program in which I could express more creativity.

It all started to make sense when DSLR cameras became affordable. Due to my previous knowledge of camera recording, I had a good background to do my own filming and to apply my freshly-baked editing skills on my own projects.

This was followed by work for national and other TV stations as freelance videographer and in time, I specialized in editing.  

I moved to Canada in 2014, located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

For me, editing is the same as playing music: the time stops, and I am in that moment, in different reality. If you don’t believe me, you can ask my wife.