Open for select projects · 2026Currently · Launching an Adobe Premiere Pro pluginCurrently · Learning Unreal Engine 5Currently · Drafting the next chapter of FRAMESCurrently · Open for Q3 consulting booking

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Zac Surprenant is an editor, technical director, and toolmaker. Fourteen years cutting commercials, music, and social for clients like Skechers and Roc Nation. Now building Unreal Engine pipelines, Premiere plugins, and AI-assisted tools that take the boring work out of post.

2026 Reel
2026 Reel
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01 · How to work together

Three ways in.

Whether you need an edit, someone to lead, or advice on how to improve. There's a way we can work together on your next project.

01

Edit

Commercials, music, and social. Sharp cuts, fast turnarounds, and the codec literacy to deliver to any platform without a re-export war. Where most of my last fourteen years have lived.

  • Commercials · 300+ broadcast spots
  • Music videos & campaign rollouts
  • Live events & social media
02

Lead

Technical direction for productions that need someone who can hold the edit bay and the whiteboard at the same time. Post supervision, workflow architecture, and the oversight that keeps a 14-person team from burning a week of render time on the wrong version.

  • Technical direction · campaign-level
  • Edit supervision & team leadership
  • Post-production workflow consulting
03

Build

The lab. Unreal Engine pipelines, custom Premiere plugins, AI-assisted tools, and the project-management glue that keeps a post team from drowning in versioning. Built for editors, by an editor.

  • Premiere & Unreal plugins
  • Automation & tools
  • Pipeline process & deliverables
02 · Selected Work

My Best
Frames.

Editing has taken me around the world. Below is some of my favorite work, though the next project is always the one I'm most excited about.

03 · Tools & Plugins

Tools for Video Production

Plugins, Scripts, and project-management glue I keep building because nobody else will. Simplifying the boring work is a job well done.

Pr
In Development

Scrub

Premiere Pro ships with the tools. Scrub adds the muscle memory. Four of the most common post tasks consolidated into one panel: batch file renaming, sequence conforming, deliverable presets, and timeline cleanup. Less hunting through menus, more time cutting.

Premiere plugin · In development
UE
Available Now

Prevu

Storyboarding in Unreal shouldn't feel like archaeology. Prevu speeds up the entire pre-production flow: rough animation blocking, camera layout, and sequence generation from a single panel. What used to take a day takes a morning.

UE5 plugin · Pre-production
UE
Available Now

Gaffer

Unreal's scene management holds up fine until you have 200 actors and need the one light that's causing the flicker. Gaffer brings bulk editing, custom groupings, and searchable actor organization to the viewport. Stop hunting, start working.

UE5 plugin · Production
UE
Available Now

Continuity

The Sequencer is powerful. It's just not an NLE. Continuity adds the features editors expect: round-trip export and import to your NLE of choice, timeline shortcuts, quality-of-life additions, and simplified render settings that don't require a manual.

UE5 + NLE · Pipeline
Unreal Engine 5 sequenceLab Notes
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04 · Unreal Lab

Learning.

I'm spending my time in Unreal Engine. Not as a hobby, but pushing towards the next frontier of virtual production and real time projects. Follow along the journey, or start one with me.

05 · Writing

Notes from the cutting room.

Field notes on the entire production process, toolmaking, and where AI helps or wastes your money. Taking everything I've learned, and putting it in one place.

The Book · Coming Soon
Surprenant
FRAMES
A Guide to Better Creative Work

A book for anyone who makes creative decisions.

Field notes from pre-production to post production, collaboration, pipelines, toolmaking, and where AI helps or wastes your money.

07 · Track Record

Credentials

Fourteen years of evidence. The rest is on the reel.

0+Broadcast spots edited
0Years in post
0Years building tools
0Edison Award

Brands & Talent

  • Skechers
  • Madonna
  • Roc Nation
  • Snoop Dogg
  • Red Bull
  • Doja Cat
  • Blizzard / Activision
  • Jaden Smith
  • Joel Embiid
  • Coachella
  • Sofia Vergara
  • Julius Randle
  • Westbrook
  • August Alsina
  • Harry Kane
  • Tony Romo
  • Terance Mann
  • Jamie Redknapp
  • Anna Akana
  • Mike Diva
  • Martha Stewart
  • Ringo Starr
  • G-Star RAW
  • Howie Mandel
  • Howie Long

Delivery

  • Broadcast
  • Theatrical
  • Live Events
  • Digital
  • Social Platforms

Stack

  • Adobe Premiere
  • After Effects
  • Media Encoder
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • DaVinci Resolve

Let's make something worth seeing.

Projects
zacsurprenant@gmail.com
Speaking · Consulting
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