Lex Nichol

I'm a freelance television editor, with extensive experience using both Avid and Final Cut to create high quality programming for British television. I’m highly versatile and equally competent working from an existing format or developing a new format from scratch. I’m used to crafting narratives from sometimes challenging stories, often offering or writing commentary myself to help with a story. I’m best under pressure and love the challenge of working on tight schedules and with the odd spanner threatening to jump into the works.

For my latest credits and to see clips of my work, please click on 'Recent work'.

Facility Hire
I have my own FCP and Avid Media Composer setup available for hire. Very competitive rates available on request.

Additional Skills
I am a good lightweight camera operator and am extremely useful on any shoot - working a project from start to finish is when I come into my own.
It’s also worth speaking if you’re in a pre-production state and want to think about formats and storage for editing. I can often offer useful advise for dealing with options such as international versioning in the most cost effective manner.
I have many years radio experience and have narrated for shows on ITV 1 and Al Jazeera.
I’m also extremely technically competent having built several edit suites over the years, and have been running post production at Original Productions over the last couple of years.

History
I started working on Avids at the age of 16 as an Edit Assistant, and was soon asked to edit a short film to be shown to the United Nations when no other editors were available. I did some camera assisting before heading off to Southampton University where I became manager of the student radio station. Putting most of my energy into 'Surge' instead of my course in Engineering, I opted to change degrees and go to Leeds to study broadcasting.

I stayed in Leeds after University and started working at Chameleon Television as an assistant editor / lightweight cameraman. I started my edit career working on Dispatches and other documentary for Channel Four before cutting 12 hour long music biographies for ITV 1. In January 2007 I moved from Leeds to London and began my freelance career. Most of 2007 was spent working at Al Jazeera's English language station on Entertainment programmes, '48' and the 'Fabulous Picture Show'. In 2008 I spent time on various projects, mostly for Original Productions on ‘Living with the Dead’ and ‘Ibiza 2008’. In 2009 I continued working at Original on ‘Trawlers, Rigs and Rescue’ for Virgin 1 before continuing on ‘Deadly North Sea’ into 2010.