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Notes on repurposing, retention, and Shorts.
Tactics and case studies from turning long-form videos into high-retention vertical clips.
Every 10–30 minute video contains multiple high-retention segments most creators never touch.
Restructuring the first 3 seconds is the highest-leverage edit you can make.
Platform-native formatting means more than just resizing to 9:16.
Turning one long-form upload into a week of daily distribution assets.
Most creators pick their Shorts by scrubbing the timeline until something feels good. That is why the clips end up competing with each other instead of covering different ground. Selection is a separate job from editing, and it is the one that decides how far a clip travels. Here is the pass I run on […]
Turning static tarot readings into animated short stories with generated imagery, where the difficulty was synchronising each image to the exact narrative beat.
Video editing in Dubai costs AED 150 to 1,500 per finished minute depending on how much motion graphics work is in it. A straightforward edit through an agency runs AED 5,000 to 10,000, and the same job through a freelancer is usually AED 400 to 2,000. Those two numbers describe the same deliverable, which is […]
A YouTube editor costs $25 to $300 per Short, $200 to $600 per long-form video, or $750 to $5,000 a month on a retainer. The spread is that wide because “video editor” covers a template operator in a cheap market and a senior editor who reshapes your story, and the two do not produce the […]
An unsolicited edit sent to GMHikaru, published on the channel, around 120K views. One clip, one week, and an honest account of what that does and does not prove.
Six months and 100+ clips for a chess coaching brand, where the usual open-loop tactic would have damaged the product the clips were promoting.
Three months turning a family vlog back catalogue into 60 Shorts a month, where the bottleneck was finding the moments rather than cutting them.
A comedy clip for a Deira Gold Souk jeweller: written, directed, shot on a phone and cut on location, all inside a single visit to a shop that never stopped trading.