I want finished YouTube videos people can understand and choose to watch
YouTube editing turns long-form footage into a finished video with corrected captions and a readable thumbnail.
Three things bring people here. A video that is fine and a thumbnail nobody clicks, because a thumbnail is judged at about the size of a postage stamp and most are designed at full size. Footage sitting on a phone that never becomes a video, because cutting is the part nobody has time for. And automatic captions, which YouTube says itself are affected by accents, background noise and mispronunciation, and which are the version a lot of people read.
It runs in two parts. A setup, once, where your brand and voice get discussed and your caption style, overlay style and thumbnail template get built. Then each video is counted by how much footage there is, because that is what the work actually depends on.
Uploading it is social media management.
Priced by how much footage there is, in ten minute blocks, because watching it is the work.
Built at 3840 x 2160, which is what YouTube documents today. The widely repeated 1280 x 720 is now only the 720p video resolution, and the 2MB limit is the mobile one. Desktop allows 50MB. A thumbnail built to the old numbers is built small.
Your photo, or a frame pulled from the video at a moment you mark. Finished on the template built at setup, so every thumbnail on the channel looks like the same channel.
One setup, paid once, then everything after is counted. The setup is where the hours are: your brand and your voice discussed, the look built, and up to two revisions while it is being agreed. Every piece made afterwards sits on that, which is why each one costs what it costs.
The setup is paid in full before work starts, because the design happens whether the look is kept or changed. Everything after it is invoiced on delivery.
Anything inside the template. A different word, a different clip, a caption moved, another photo, a typo, one of your brand colors swapped for another.
Anything that changes the template. A different look, a different layout, a new concept, recutting to a different structure. That takes a call, and the piece is charged again as a new item.
Production work that starts from footage you already have. The video gets cut to what you meant to say, the sound gets levelled, overlays go on in your style, a thumbnail gets built to be read small, and the captions get corrected rather than left as the machine wrote them.
You end up with the finished video, the caption file, the thumbnail and every source file, all yours to keep. Nothing here uploads it.
More on how working together works.
Because the thumbnail template and the caption style are the hours. Once the look exists, every video after it is a cut, a fill and an export. Without the setup, each video would carry that cost again and cost several times as much.
By how much footage you send, in ten minute blocks. A twenty minute recording is two blocks. You can work out your own bill before you send anything, and a forty minute recording is not quietly the same price as a ten minute one.
This service starts from footage you already have. If there is nothing to start from, a filming session comes first and the two get quoted together.
Each thumbnail is its own item, so ask for two and you get two. Saying so up front is cheaper than coming back for a second one later.
Up to three options come back, written from your brand voice, and you pick one. There are no revisions on titles, because a fourth option is a new set rather than a correction.
A view count cannot be promised. What gets controlled here is whether the video is watchable, whether the thumbnail reads at the size it is seen, and whether the captions say the right words.
You do. The finished video, the thumbnail, the caption file and the source files.
I read it and reply with the scope and the price before any work starts.
Tell me the result you want and where I can see the business now. I use that information to identify the most useful service or package and decide whether I can quote it in writing. If one missing detail changes the work or price, I will ask for that detail or suggest a short call.
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