YouTube Shorts editing built for the first three seconds.

What we mean by a Short

A Short is a vertical 9:16 video delivered as an MP4 that is ready to upload to YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels. YouTube now allows Shorts up to three minutes, but most of the Shorts we cut land between 30 and 60 seconds, because that is where retention holds. One edit works across all three platforms; we keep text and captions inside the safe zones so the interface on each app does not cover them.

You can send vertical phone footage, horizontal gameplay or camera footage that we reframe to vertical, or a link to a long-form video you have already published that we mine for Shorts.

What is included in every Shorts edit

• The hook. The first three seconds are re-cut so the payoff, the question or the strongest visual comes first. This is the single biggest lever on a Short's performance and the part most creators skip.
• Pacing. Pauses, filler words and dead air are removed. Cuts land on the beat of the speech or the music.
• Word-timed captions. Styled to your channel, timed to each word, checked by a person. Auto-captions are not what you are paying for.
• Sound design and music. Hits, whooshes and risers on the moments that need them, and a track that is synced rather than laid underneath.
• Punch-ins, zooms and b-roll. Camera moves and overlays that keep the frame changing every few seconds without making it noisy.
• On-screen text and safe-zone framing for titles, labels, and any callout that has to survive the TikTok and Shorts interface.
• A loop-friendly ending where the format supports it, so replays count.

We do not add AI voiceovers, stock-footage filler or a template applied to every creator. If your channel has a look, we match it; if you do not have one yet, the trial Short is where we build it with you.

Standard Shorts, simple clips, and mixing formats

Plans are measured in standard Shorts: a full edit with a hook, captions, sound design and motion, usually from raw footage. A simple clip is lighter work, such as a podcast clip, a talking-head cut or a gameplay moment that mostly needs trimming and captions. Two to three simple clips count as one standard Short, which is how a Starter plan stretches from 10 Shorts to as many as 25 videos.

You can also spend part of a plan on long-form videos. A creator who sends one long video a week and wants three Shorts pulled from each is a normal mix, and the long-form edit counts against the long-form allowance while each Short counts against the short-form one. Nothing is locked to a fixed deliverable count.

Turnaround

Shorts are delivered in 24 to 48 hours from the time we receive your footage. Growth plans get 24-hour priority turnaround, and Pro plans can request same-day rush. The free trial Short is delivered within 24 hours. Editors work across several time zones, so a Short sent in the evening is usually moving while you sleep.

What it costs to hire a Shorts editor

A subscription replaces per-video quotes with a fixed monthly cost. On a plan, a standard Short works out to roughly $32 on Lite, $28 on Starter, $25 on Growth and $21 on Pro, before any of the simple-clip stretching.

Every plan includes unlimited revisions and can be canceled anytime. Long-form counts are typical, not fixed: a simple episode stretches the allowance further, a heavy edit uses more of it, and we confirm exactly where your videos land after your trial edit. Full details on the pricing page.

Subscribe after your trial Short and you receive an extra free Short in your first month. If your first paid Short does not meet your expectations after revisions, we refund your first month in full.

How the process works

1. 01

   Send footage

   A YouTube link, phone footage, raw recordings in our shared Dropbox, or files over email or Discord. Tell us the hook if you have one in mind, or leave it to the editor.

2. 02

   We cut, caption and score it

   An editor who knows your niche builds the hook, tightens the pacing, adds captions, sound design and motion, then quality control reviews it on a phone screen.

3. 03

   You post everywhere

   The finished Short arrives as a vertical MP4 ready for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Reels. Ask for changes as many times as you like.

Why our Shorts editors are different

Every editor on our roster runs content of their own. JustMilk grew a Roblox channel and DownFallMain built more than 16,000 subscribers covering Minecraft mods, so when they cut your Short they are chasing the same retention graph they check on their own uploads. That is a different instinct from a contractor working through a checklist.

The company itself came out of Grand Theft Minecart, a GTA-inspired Minecraft server the team has run for more than ten years for over a million players. Gaming is where we started and remains a specialty, but the same editors and the same process cut Shorts for podcasts, vlogs, fitness, education, faceless channels and brands every week.