Swindon-born entrepreneur James Richings has bagged an Emmy for his business’s innovations in film-editing technology.

His company’s multi-camera editing software, which has been used in highly-acclaimed films such as The King’s Speech and The Wolf of Wall Street, won him and his colleagues an award for technical innovation.

The successful Old Town resident travelled to Las Vegas for the 69th Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards to receive the honour.

Mr Richings said: “We didn’t know if it was real at first – it took as a couple of days to establish if it was true. It was great – a huge honour. It’s not every day you get to win an Emmy.

“There were around 250-350 people there and it was nice to get dressed up. It was good to be amongst peers, get recognition from them and represent British tech.”

As a managing director of EditShare, which makes software for TV and film producers, Mr Richings takes a keen interest in business, technology and innovation. The Lightworks software he helped to develop allows editors to capture footage from multiple cameras on set, synchronise it, and then edit it in real time.

EditShare software is used for TV soaps such as Emmerdale to cut down down production time and costs over busy shooting schedules. A committee of around 40 people decided on the winning technology, which was specifically awarded for a pioneering development in the software's storage system.

James Richings informed the Adver that two of the company’s lead developers have worked on Lightworks collectively for around 45 years. He felt fortunate to have such a small team dedicated to improving the software.

The multi-camera editing facet of the technology is a modern development, but older versions of the software were used in many of Martin Scorsese’s films, as well as Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 classic Pulp Fiction.

James Richings is also a managing director at Everybody Sing Ltd in Swindon, a professional music and performing arts school based in Cheney Manor.

His mother Kerry Richings is a Director at the company. She said: “I am very proud of him – he’s very entrepreneurial and has done very well for himself.

“He’s a mentor at Everybody Sing, as well as a financer – he does everything.”