REC Scene 01 / Take 07 2.39:1 23.976 fps Cairo, EG

Cutting Beyond Luxury

I’m Ahmed Abdelfattah — editor, colourist and AI film director working out of Cairo. I take footage, boards or nothing at all and return a finished film: cut, graded, titled, mastered. Seven years of it, most recently leading the promo desk at Al Ahly TV.

07+Years in post
Al Ahly TVPromos lead — broadcast
AI / LiveBoth pipelines, one grade
Trusted by
  • Al Ahly TV
  • Command S Studio
  • The Door Production House
  • MICO
  • Sense TV
Play showreel 2026
Ahmed Abdelfattah — Showreel Edit · Colour · Motion · AI
00:00:38:00 The grade bench Drag to compare
Camera original · RAW / Log Final look
DRAG

What actually changes

Balance first, then contrast, then mood. The flat log frame gets real blacks and depth, the neon is pushed to a rich magenta, the denim shifts cooler and the skin stays warm and natural — with highlights rolled off softly so the practical lights never clip.

Room

DaVinci Resolve Studio · node-based grading, from the camera’s RAW / log footage to a look built for each project.

Delivery

Rec.709 masters for broadcast and online, plus vertical 9:16 versions cut from the same timeline.

00:01:02:00 Selected sequence 2019 — 2026
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00:02:10:00 What I take on Four desks
D—01

Edit & Story

The cut is the film. Rhythm, structure, where the silence goes. Commercials, promos, brand films, long-form and the vertical versions that come off the same timeline.

  • Premiere Pro
  • Multicam
  • Sound pass
D—02

Colour

Shot matching, a look built for the piece rather than a preset, and masters that hold up on broadcast, cinema and a phone in daylight.

  • Resolve Studio
  • RAW / Log
  • Rec.709
D—03

Motion & Titles

Title cards, logo reveals, lower thirds and the clean-up nobody notices — tracking, paint-out, screen replacement, comp.

  • After Effects
  • Blender
  • Compositing
D—04

AI Film Production

Whole scenes with no crew and no location: identity-locked character sheets, shot-by-shot generation, then the same grade and finish as live action.

  • Seedance
  • Character lock
  • I2V / T2V
00:02:48:00 The AI pipeline Concept → master in days, not weeks

This runs in order, and the order is the whole trick — most AI video falls apart because identity and lighting drift between shots. Locking them upstream is what makes it cuttable.

01

Board

Script beats turned into a numbered shotlist with framing, lens and duration per shot.

02

Character lock

Three-panel identity sheets so a face, a wardrobe and a logo survive every shot.

03

Generate

Shot-by-shot image-to-video with camera and blocking written into the prompt, not hoped for.

04

Cut & grade

Assembled on a real timeline, shot-matched in Resolve, grain and gate weave added back.

05

Master

Sound, titles, deliverables in every ratio the campaign needs, versioned and labelled.

00:03:12:00The toolkitPipeline · 2026
Premiere ProDaVinci Resolve StudioAfter EffectsPhotoshopBlenderSeedanceNanoBananaHiggsfieldChatGPTClaudePremiere ProDaVinci Resolve StudioAfter EffectsPhotoshopBlenderSeedanceNanoBananaHiggsfieldChatGPTClaude
00:03:30:00 Client words In their words
Haidy ★★★★★Voice note · in Arabic · ✓ Verified on WhatsApp
0:30

Of course, my word about you is biased — I've never seen anyone as skilled as you, never — truly, mashallah. Professional in everything: your work, your approach, your style. Honestly, I see you as bigger than any rating I — or anyone — could give you. You truly deserve the best. May God bless you — always this successful, this brilliant…

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