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Hire a Long-Form Video Editor.

YouTube videos, courses and webinars, edited and finished.

Also called: YouTube Video Editor, Post-Production Editor, Documentary Editor

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • Media & creators
  • Education & training
  • YouTube
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Long-Form Video Editor gets doneSample day
  • Reviews raw footage and transcriptsStory & structure
  • Syncs and cuts multicam podcasts and interviews with separate audioVisual finishing
  • Cleans dialogue with noise reduction, de-reverb, EQ and compressionAudio post
  • Edits course lessons to a consistent structureCourses, webinars & eventsDoing
In your tools
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Audition
  • YouTube Studio
  • Envato Elements

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Long-Form Video Editor£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Takes a video from raw footage to final master.

  • Weekly YouTube videos
  • Full course modules
  • Multicam podcast episodes

2-4 years editing long-form content for creators, educators or brands.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Long-Form Video Editor

Tasks

  • Story & structure

    • Reviews raw footage and transcripts
    • Assembles rough cuts from a script or outlines
    • Removes dead air, flubs and repetition and tighten pacing

  • Visual finishing

    • Syncs and cuts multicam podcasts and interviews with separate audio
    • Adds b-roll, screen recordings, lower thirds, zooms and simple graphics
    • Colours correct and grade in DaVinci Resolve

  • Audio post

    • Cleans dialogue with noise reduction, de-reverb, EQ and compression
    • Edits music and SFX and mix to delivery loudness
    • Produces and checks caption files for accessibility and SEO

  • Courses, webinars & events

    • Edits course lessons to a consistent structure
    • Cleans up webinar recordings into a replay

  • Packaging & delivery

    • Adds chapters, end screens and cards
    • Runs a QC pass and delivers masters in the required codecs
    • Manages proxies, project organisation, versioning and archiving

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written English and brief comprehensionAll levels25 min
  2. Multicam, audio and colour tool testAll levels60 min
  3. Story edit work sampleAll levels3 hrs
  4. QC spot-the-errors testAll levels20 min
  5. Portfolio review and walkthroughIntermediate and up45 min
  6. Creator feedback role-playExpert and Specialist30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

93%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

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From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Long-Form Video Editor is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Story & structure, visual finishing, audio post and courses, webinars & events, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written English and brief comprehension, multicam, audio and colour tool test and story edit work sample. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Long-Form Video Editor works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Long-Form Video Editor works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Long-Form Video Editor takes a video from raw footage to final master. An Expert Long-Form Video Editor owns channel retention outcomes or flagship projects and finishes colour and audio. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Long-Form Video Editor is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve Studio, before you meet them.

In week one: access set up: Slack, shared storage, Frame.io, project tracker; style bible or 3-5 reference videos received; and SOP walkthrough: folder structure, naming, proxy settings. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called YouTube Video Editor, Post-Production Editor and Documentary Editor. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

A 15‑minute call on Teams. You leave knowing the level you need and its hourly price.

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