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Notes on repurposing, retention, and Shorts.

Tactics and case studies from turning long-form videos into high-retention vertical clips.

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A Star Barbers: the comeback reel after a year off Instagram

A branded reel for A Star Barbers (around 1.3M followers on Instagram), Dubai to London for a Nike-backed event, cut to his team's voice-over. His first real post after a year of quiet, at around 45K views.

Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min read
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TKK Town: seven luxury menswear pieces, shot and edited in one afternoon

4 reels and 3 stories for a UAE luxury menswear store, planned off five reels that already worked, shot and edited in about four hours, and delivered editable in the client's own Premiere project.

Oct 10, 2026 · 2 min read
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DRHOBS: a six-episode Lebanon series, edited while the family was still travelling

Six family travel vlogs from one trip, usually back in 24 hours and never more than 48, while the client stayed on holiday. The Lebanon episodes averaged 1.9x his previous six.

Oct 10, 2026 · 3 min read
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Alex The Tennis Pro: 100GB+ Sony files and 4K delivery

Two 4K coaching videos cut from 100GB-plus Sony source footage, where the proxy workflow and export pipeline mattered more than the edit itself.

Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
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Nate Bower Fitness: promo clips for a retreat people have to book

Three retreat promo clips in a week, where the thing being sold is a version of the buyer rather than a product, and the objection is social not financial.

Oct 4, 2026 · 2 min read
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Alen Mandavi: shooting and cutting fitness content in one pass

The one project where I ran the camera as well as the edit. Five shooting sessions in an indoor gym, each turned around client-ready in 24 hours.

Oct 1, 2026 · 3 min read
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Pack Paradise: five card-event promos on 24-hour turnarounds

Promo Shorts for a trading card business covering a live event and the store, where a late delivery does not miss a slot, it misses the event.

Sep 28, 2026 · 3 min read
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agadmator: clipping the hardest chess channel to clip

A spec Short cut from an agadmator video and published on the channel, on a format that offers none of the reaction shots short-form editing normally depends on.

Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read
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Kevin Dong Pickleball: learning a sport to edit it correctly

Editing a $1000 pickleball match with accurate on-screen score tracking, which meant learning an unusual scoring system before making a single cut.

Sep 22, 2026 · 3 min read
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Gauri Chess: 25+ deliverables in a month across two formats

Five long-form videos, twenty-plus Shorts and a Duolingo ad in about four weeks, and why fitting into an existing workflow mattered more than technique.

Sep 19, 2026 · 3 min read
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Alessia Santeramo: 15+ Shorts into a schedule that could not slip

Three months of short-form for a 500K+ creator, where the real test was operating inside a rigid process rather than the editing itself.

Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read
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Anna-Maja Kazarian: turning stream VODs into Shorts and long-form

A year of pulling clips and long-form videos out of four-hour chess streams, and the chat-spike method that made finding the good moments fast.

Sep 13, 2026 · 3 min read