Who this is for
We edit videos that run long, usually somewhere between ten minutes and an hour. Some come from solo creators who film a weekly tutorial in a spare room. Others come from small brands: a kitchen supply shop with a recipe series, a software company that records walkthroughs, a trainer who teaches a skill in long sessions. The footage is fine. The edit is where the hours go, and it is the part most people would rather hand off.
A long video asks a lot of a viewer. They have to stay with it through setup, explanation and payoff, and every slow stretch is a chance to leave. Our job is to remove those slow stretches without losing the substance, and to give the video the structure that YouTube viewers expect: chapters to jump around, captions to follow along, and an ending that points to what to watch next.
Reading the chapter ring
The ring at the top of this page is an invented 18 minute tutorial drawn the way we plan an edit. Each colored segment is a chapter, sized by its length. The orange ticks on the outside mark b-roll inserts, the dashed inner ring is the caption track, and the dark orange arc at the end is the window for end screen elements. The list beside it is the chapter list as it would appear in the video description, with timestamps worked out from the same lengths.
We draw one of these for long jobs before the fine cut. It shows quickly whether one chapter has swollen to half the video or whether a long stretch has no cutaways at all.
Services
Long-form YouTube edits
Tutorials, reviews, interviews and vlogs cut for pace, with retakes and dead air gone.
B-roll and graphics
Cutaways, screen recordings, zooms and lower thirds so the picture keeps moving.
Chapters and captions
Timestamped chapters for the description and a corrected caption file for upload.
End screens and exports
A clean last 20 seconds for end screen elements, thumbnail stills and upload files.
About the name. The domain says traffic, so to be clear: we edit videos. Nobody outside YouTube controls who gets recommended, so we don't promise views, subscribers, watch time or income. We work on the parts an edit does control: pacing, clarity, sound and a finish that matches your channel.
What to send
A short brief saves a round of questions. A useful one covers:
- A shared link to the raw files (Google Drive, Dropbox, Frame.io, WeTransfer or similar), with separate audio if you recorded it
- The topic in one or two sentences, and the points that must stay in
- Roughly how long you want the finished video to run
- Your channel link, or two or three videos whose pace you like
- Brand files for titles and lower thirds: logo, fonts and colors
- How often you post, and the date you need this one
Missing some of that? Send the footage link and one sentence about the video. The quote will list anything we still need.
Where we work
Editing is remote, so footage can come from anywhere. We focus on creators and small businesses in Louisville and Memphis and book calls in your local time.
Louisville, KY
Long-form YouTube editing for Louisville creators, shops and small companies.
Memphis, TN
Long-form YouTube editing for Memphis creators, shops and small companies.
What finished video setups look like
Common questions
How much does a long-form edit cost?
It depends on how much raw footage there is, the finished length, how much b-roll and graphics work it needs, and whether chapters and captions are part of the job. We quote each video, or each month of regular uploads, in writing after seeing the footage.
Will the edit get my videos more views?
We can't promise that, and we don't. Recommendations depend on the topic, the title, the thumbnail, your audience and things YouTube doesn't share. A tighter edit makes a video easier to watch, which is the part we can do something about.
Do you edit Shorts too?
Our focus is long videos. We can cut a few vertical clips from a long edit as an add-on, listed in the quote.
Are the rings and images real projects?
No. The chapter rings show invented videos, and the stills are AI-generated samples. We don't publish client work without permission.
Got a long recording waiting to be cut? Tell us how much footage there is, roughly how long the finished video should run, and how often you post.
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