Why I Still Love the Timeline

Justin Bieber - Spotify: Stream On (2021)

Every editor has their own weird comfort zone. Mine? The timeline.

The chaos. The structure. The weird familiarity of it.

I’ve sat inside timelines that held world tours, Olympic ceremonies, music videos, and documentaries that streamed globally.

And still — every time I open one, I get the same buzz.

Because inside the timeline is potential.

Messy, beautiful, confusing potential.

It’s your playground. Your blueprint. Your puzzle.

It’s where structure gets built.

Where meaning gets discovered.

Where moments get earned.

And it’s where no one sees what you’re doing — but everything depends on it.

No two timelines I’ve ever worked on have been the same.

Some are clean. Some are chaos. Some are 90 layers deep and full of temp markers I forgot to delete.

But they all hold something I love:

That feeling that, with enough care and instinct,

you can take hours of footage and find a story that hits.

And that’s the best feeling in the world.