Paul shot and edited hundreds of hours of footage for the multi-award winning, Power Trip, a movie he also produced and directed: 

"Editing my first feature, SlamNation, was fairly straight-forward because the competition defined the narrative. The biggest challenge turned out to be those ancient, bulky hard drives from back in the day, that often failed, forcing me to re-capture and re-link media constantly. But that process also forced me to become an expert in Media Management.

Editing Power Trip, forced me to become an expert in Content Organization. Power Trip had no obvious, self-evident narrative - it needed to be manufactured from scratch. And the project included hundreds of hours of footage, many more than SlamNation. Eventually I developed techniques that allowed me to access any material I was looking for in 5-10 seconds. If a search took longer than 10 seconds, I developed a new technique to fix that. 

The best stuff was complex material that needed to be simplified. That process can be difficult. Sometimes I would need a break. That’s when I would cut together something that was easier, more relaxing, looked pretty and just needed good music to evoke emotion. I’d drop those fun pieces in a bin, with no idea if they would make the movie. Then get back to the complexity. 

Occasionally that little pause for the editor is exactly what the movie needs as well. In the case shown here, it’s an opportunity to develop emotional resonance, reminding us of the culture and humanity of the people caught up in the high stakes of the rest of the narrative."