How To Find And Hire A Video Editor
Why do you need to hire a video editor?
There are two main reasons.
First Reason: Hiring a video editor can save your time, if you have made videos in the past then you know that editing your videos can take a lot of your time. And if you are a busy creator of other things on your play, Then you might not have the hours and hours that it takes to edit each of your videos. So you can hire a video editor to shave that time off of your work.
Of course there’s also certain things you can do with that time, but two things you might do with it
(a) Make more videos if you aren’t have to spend as much time on every video, you will be able to make more videos which can grow your channel faster or if you run a business then I will say you start your editing by hiring editor, it can save you time on creating videos so you have more time to focus or spend on other aspect of your business.
There are things only you can do, because the truth is there are a lot of people out there who can do a great job editing your videos while you focus on running some aspect of your business, only you can do.
Second Reason: The other main reason why you wanna hire an editor, is to enable you to make better videos unless you are talented video editor yourself,
There are a lot of good reasons why you might wanna hire a video editor:
But, hiring an editor can be expensive and it can actually hold you back from growing your YouTube channel, and others but If you are ready to hire an editor yet, when you go about it the wrong way, it definitely isn’t the right move for every Creator. So keep on Reading to find how to find out how you can figure out a step-by-step plan for hiring and working with a good video editor.
First of all you need to figure out whether hiring a video editor will actually be a good decision for you and your channel / business (if you run sales video promos or commercials ).
Two situations in which hiring a video editor is a good idea.
The first situation is if you want to make a simple videos you don’t know how to edit right now and you have no interest in learning how to edit. in this case, hiring a video editor help you create this simple videos, it can be really smart thing to do, it can save you a ton of time, a time you would otherwise spend doing this since you don’t want to do that you don’t know how to do, it can be a shortcut to getting this simple result that you want.
The other time, when it could be a good move to hire an editor is if you have made videos for a while, you understand what you want your videos to be like, you have your style down, you know how videos are edited and you really can do it every single video and it still cant be good as you want them to and you know what you want to be different but you don’t really have the skill to do it yourself. In that case hiring a skillful video editor can be a really good option because it could save you those hours of editing every week and that professional editor could do things that you might not be able to do yourself.
However, on the other hand, there’s one situation in which I would not recommend you to hire an editor.
If you want to make videos that aren’t very simple, the more complex, the more involved, there are more producers, more going on and you haven’t edited videos yourself in the past you don’t already know how to put together video like that, i wouldn’t recommend hire an editor because, in other to master mind the production of that in other to understand how to communicate what you wanted the editor, you really need to do it yourself, first so that you know how to describe that to the editor, so you can tell the editor actually what you want ..
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
If you determine that hiring a video editor would be a smart decision for you, the next thing you need to think about is whether or not you can afford to hire an editor.
There are wide range of prices that editors charge, I have seen editor charge anywhere between about $5 per hour or even up to $500 per hour and really it’s mostly depends on two things,
The skill of the editor: As for specifically what types of things they are able to do, can it be simple edits or can they do graphics, can they cut your video to the music, or can they simply follow instructions so on. on the other hand you have the quality of their work. And both of those things influence the best they charge. Video editor, let’s take for example those that don’t really edit a very good job. I mean you could find another editor for $5.
An editor that has advanced technical skills and who is amazing at what they do, you might spend $500 an hour for this person.
Now in my experience working with editors, I have been able to consistently find editors who can do mostly complex projects or nothing crazy complex but all the best as I made just a little bit more and do consistently good quality jobs, for about 25 to 35 dollars per hour. now if you are paying your editor per hour, you might also wonder how long it will take them to edit the video. of course this depends on how long the video is or how complex it is but full videos made on YouTube typically will take the editor something like one to three hours. And so what that means the total cost to edit a Video is between 25 and $100.
I have generally paid at least $50 to have a video edited and offer a close to $100 and that’s because if the editor charges less other times they are slower, so that $25 an editor made it to 3hours, where as the $35 an editor might be able to get it done in one or two hours.
JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND
So you can either pay them for every hour they spend editing or you can pay them for each project. But when I started paying editors, I just paid them per hour because that’s the easiest, the most straight forward. The final way that you could pay a video editor, is to pay them per minute of footage that you gave them, for example you are forming a YouTube video and you sit down talk to the camera for 20 minutes and maybe you decide to add another few more shots that end up being a total of 10 minutes footage, you can decide on a fix range you pay the editor, per minute that you hand them so maybe a dollar per minute so you will be paying them $30 or $2 per minute you will be paying them 60 dollars for that video.
Now a video might end up in 5 minute long, might end up in 10, might end up 15, the reason why this pattern of payment works really well is because most of the time, the more footage that is, the longer it takes the editor to actually process all of the footage and turn it into finished video regardless of how long that finishes video ends up.
So if you are looking for a milligram, you don’t want to pay per hour and have to do all this revisions having your bill racked up but you also don’t want to pay per video maybe because your videos are very large, so you make videos that’s really short, some really long, some videos that are really simple etc. Then this could be a good way to still be paying your editor.
THINGS TO CONSIDER WHILE HIRING AN EDITOR
- Are your videos currently making you money: are your videos directly making you money on you tube or are you making ad money, do you have sponsorships, are your videos attracting customers to your business. If your video is attracting customers to your business then hiring a video editor could be a really smart money move even if you monetize on you tube yet, because if you hire an editor, you could make better videos, you can make more videos and that could get you more money. You also need to think of what else you could be doing with your time. What is the opportunity cost of the time you are spending editing your own videos? If you spend four hours a week editing your own videos, you could pay someone maybe about $200 to do that for you. If so then hiring a video editor will be a smart money move. If you decide that you are going to move forward in hiring an editor, then the next thing you need to do is find an editor to hire.
There are two main places you can find an editor.
- You can find one locally or you can find someone online who will work remotely, now both of them have their merit. It is not just about which one is easy to find, it is really about which one is easy to find, is really about which type of editor you want to work with. If you are working with the local editor then you are going to communicate with them more easily, you will be able to meet them in person. On the other hand if you are working with the remote editor, your communication will probably be by sending emails.
So first of all you really need to think about what you really need. Do you just need an editor or do you need more about producers, do you need some one who can help you form your videos. The other thing you wanna consider is the cost, LOCAL editor versus REMOTE editor. Now having said that you can hire people in any price range locally or remotely. How ever generally when you look locally, you gonna get a smaller pool of people who you are looking at, so you mostly find people who can charge a main range and offer a little high range for their editing work while online, you are going to see the full spectrum of cost which you can spend on editing, so if you go online you can find editors you can hire for as little as 5–10 dollars an hour or spend $500 per hour.
Of Course there are all those people who will charge you for that middle range, but there will be a bigger void you pick from.
But there is still also a great time to talk about the fact that you can pay editors in two different ways.
1.you can pay them per hour
2.you can also pay them per video.
LAST STEP IN FINDING AN EDITOR
Is to find several editors, don’t just hire the first person you find, find a bunch and then Nero it down. Maybe you start with 10 different editors you consider hiring, then you can do a test project and find the one that is really the best for you. So you have found some editors that might be perfect for your videos, and now comes the most important part of this entire process.
START WITH A TRIAL
You need to do some test project with this editors, you need to try working with them if you don’t do this and you just jump in hiring someone, then you could likely waste bunch of money and bunch of time, if that editor turns out not to do as good quality of work as you thought they would do or they can’t make videos in the style you want them to make or they aren’t good communicator, so i will highly recommend that you do a test project with each of the editors that you are considering working with.
With this test project, you can either have all editors work on the same project, to say you are doing a free test project, every single one makes the same video, then you can compare apples to apples really well. You can see the differences and quality, then you can judge the differences very easily and you do a test project with each of the editors you consider working with or on the other hand you can handle different projects, so editor 1. is doing project A, editor 2. is doing project B etc.
TIPS ON HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF WORKING WITH YOUR EDITOR;
Set clear expectations: there are a lot of different ways you can do this but the best idea here is just that you need to tell your video editor as much as you possibly can, what you want and result and what it will actually look like. It doesn’t mean that you have to tell them everything they need to do. Is good to give them creative freedom for sure, because you really want them to use their creative genius. So you don’t need to tell them everything they need to do but you do need to tell them everything that is important to you. So you need to tell them the outcome you want.
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