What you get
Short-form is a hook business. We open on the strongest three seconds available in your footage, keep the pace tight enough that attention never drifts, and finish with captions that match your brand rather than a default template.
- Hook-first structure — the strongest moment goes first, not the chronological start
- Animated captions — styled to your channel, readable on mute
- Platform exports — Reels, Shorts and TikTok in the right ratios
- Cover frame design — so your grid looks like a system
- Repurposing — one long video turned into a batch of clips
Pricing and turnaround
Reels and Shorts are $50 each with 24-hour delivery. Bulk packs are available if you are posting several times a week — most creators move to a monthly plan once they pass roughly eight clips a month.
Repurposing long-form into short-form
If you already publish long-form, you are sitting on a library of clips. We pull the spikes from your retention graph — the moments people rewatched — and cut them into standalone verticals, so your short-form pipeline costs you no extra filming.
Short-form editing is a hook problem, then a pacing problem
A vertical video does not fail in the middle. It fails in the first ninety frames, before the viewer has consciously decided anything. That is the part of the job we spend disproportionate time on, and it is why we cut the opening last — after the body is locked and we know what the strongest two seconds in the timeline actually are.
The scale of the competition is worth stating. YouTube has said Shorts average around 200 billion views a day, a figure the platform's CEO gave publicly in mid-2025 and repeated in 2026. Every one of those is a swipe that did not happen on someone else's video.
Format has changed, and the brief should change with it
Since the creation tools finished rolling out in January 2025, YouTube Shorts can run up to three minutes — a change first announced in October 2024. Longer runtime does not make the opening less important; it makes it more important, because there is more video to justify. Separately, YouTube decoupled its Shorts and long-form recommendation systems in late 2025, which means a channel's vertical and horizontal strategies now genuinely need to be planned separately rather than treated as one funnel.
What we actually do to a vertical edit
- Hook construction — we rebuild the first three seconds from scratch, usually opening mid-action rather than at the chronological start
- Styled captions — placed above the lower third so platform UI never covers them, timed to the cut rather than to the breath
- Pace mapping — cutting rhythm that varies deliberately instead of running at one speed until the viewer tunes out
- Sound design — licensed music, transitions and effects that carry momentum when the sound is off and reward it when it is on
- Safe-area framing — nothing critical in the zones covered by captions, profile handles or CTA buttons
- Platform variants — the same edit adjusted for Reels, Shorts and TikTok rather than one file posted three times
Our working breakdown of the openers themselves — seven patterns, with frame counts — is in this guide.
Repurposing long-form into short-form
If you already publish long-form, the cheapest short-form you will ever make is already sitting in your timeline. We pull clips that stand alone — not just moments that were good in context — and rebuild each one with its own hook, caption pass and ending. A single long video usually yields three to six genuinely postable verticals.
This is the part most creators under-use. Clipping is not repurposing; a clip with no hook and no resolution performs like a clip.
Pricing and turnaround
Reels, Shorts and TikTok edits are $50 each, delivered in 24 hours. Two revision rounds, licensed music and sound design are included. Batches and monthly retainers get a lower per-video rate — if you post daily, ask for the retainer rate rather than ordering one at a time.
For reference, 2026 talent-market analysis puts basic short-form editing on freelance marketplaces at roughly $15–$40 per hour, which for a properly built vertical usually lands in a similar range per video. The variable is not the rate; it is whether the hook was constructed or just trimmed.
How to test whether short-form is working
Judge hooks on the share of viewers still present at ten seconds, not on total views. Views tell you what the feed did with the video. Ten-second retention tells you what the edit did. Cut three versions where only the opening differs, post them days apart, and compare that number — four rounds of this will teach you more about your audience than any general advice, including ours.
Frequently asked
How fast do you deliver Reels and Shorts?
Within 24 hours of receiving your footage and brief. Batch orders are scheduled across the week and delivered on agreed dates.
How much does short-form video editing cost?
Reels, Shorts and TikTok edits are $50 each, including two revision rounds, licensed music and sound design. Batches and monthly retainers are quoted at a lower per-video rate.
Can you cut Shorts from my existing long-form videos?
Yes. We pull segments that work as standalone videos and rebuild each one with its own hook, captions and ending. One long-form video usually produces three to six postable verticals.
How long should a YouTube Short be in 2026?
Shorts can run up to three minutes since the creation tools rolled out in January 2025, but length should follow the material. Most of what we cut still performs best well under a minute unless the story genuinely needs longer.
Do you deliver different versions for Reels, Shorts and TikTok?
Yes. Framing, caption placement and safe areas differ across the three platforms, so we adjust the export rather than posting one identical file everywhere.