Scott Butzer on Editing’s Expanding Opportunities
Scott Butzer is an award-winning editor with a career spanning over 15 years, working across commercials, music videos, documentaries, and more. He is known for moving fluidly between genres, blending visual storytelling with an experimental edge. His work spans campaigns for Google, Frito-Lay, Apple, TurboTax, Toyota, and Vince Staples, among others.
His work has been honoured with AICP Awards for Vince Staples’ ‘Fun!’ and Frito-Lay’s ‘Taste of Soccer,’ while his edit for Google’s ‘Year in Search’ earned multiple Webby Awards and has amassed over 250 million views worldwide.
Scott sat down with LBB to discuss approaching work with a sense of‘ruthless openness’ and the trial and error nature of editing, and why story will always be king.
