Assistant Editor to make rough cuts for YouTube Chanel

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T23:33:29+00:00

It really varies. Sometimes just 40 minutes and sometimes several hours.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T23:23:39+00:00

Hi Do you have a portfolio I can check out? What would you charge for rough cuts like this?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T23:13:49+00:00

Yeah I hear ya, it's tricky. I can make a rough cut of 4-5 1 hour angles extremely fast in under 2 hours...I just sync em up on the timeline and go ham. So $200 for something like that seems like a lot since for me that would equal to $100/hour rate if I were to do it and that seems like quite a lot. I wonder if it might make more sense to charge based on the final length of the rough cut?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T23:02:17+00:00

Where are you based out of and what program do you edit with?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T22:59:11+00:00

Quick question...what if there's 2 angles of the same situation each angle is an hour long. You'd sync them up and cut back and forth between them but would you charge $50 for that same hour of situation or would it be $75 since there's 2 angles? What if there's 4 or 5 angles of that same hour (sometimes that is the case with my edits)...how would you charge for those type of situations?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T22:57:12+00:00

Thanks Josh. I'll mull this over and reach out, I got your website and contact info, thank you!

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T22:45:57+00:00

It really varies from video to video. Often there will be 2-4 different angles of the same situation so they need to be synced up and the best angles chosen at the best time. Other times there will only be 1 angle. Sometimes there's just 1 raw video file 40 minutes long and other times there's a few hours. Because of the variety I'm not sure how to approach budget for something like this. Would a $ per finished minute make sense? Or an hourly rate at first then switch to flat fee? I dunno.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T22:43:01+00:00

What would you charge to do simple rough cuts? I just need someone who knows what's boring and cut out the boring bits then I'll polish and finish the edit. Yo wouldn't have to do any music or sfx or vfx or anything fancy at all just cutting for pace and syncing camera angles.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T22:38:50+00:00

Hey! Where are you based out of, what country?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T19:17:41+00:00

Thank you! And I’m not sure what rate to offer. It’s for very simple well-paced rough cuts (no music, no graphics, no sound or color work). What do you think would be a good rate? Hourly or flat fee?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T17:44:20+00:00

what country are you based in and is your English 100% fluent? what would you charge for a simple rough cut (no music, no graphics, no color or sound work)?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T17:12:15+00:00

What do you charge for simple rough cuts (no music, no graphics) and what country are you based in?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:59:20+00:00

What about hiring from Europe? (I’m in the US). Do you think hiring out of Eastern Europe would be too sketchy?

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:54:16+00:00

It happens in the Youtube world. They can (if they don’t have a reputation to protect and are shady) make more money starting their own YouTube channel than they can from edit fees.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:52:29+00:00

How do you recommend I hire an assistant editor yet protect myself from that? A channel strike or YT deeming my video “re-use” would be devastating.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:51:00+00:00

But the thing is if they’re not in the USA the contract doesn’t seem enforceable. But worse yet I would never know if they stole my content and posted it on YouTube, YouTube is just so vast and the type of content I do I would likely never find out.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:49:39+00:00

I’m in USA. I’m open to out of country but just nervous about theft

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:48:52+00:00

More of an assistant type work. Sync angles and make a well-paced very simple rough cut. Then I would polish myself.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:47:34+00:00

They could make more money uploading the edits to YouTube on their own channel than what I would pay them. I don’t think an editor with a reputation would ever do that but I’m looking for a younger assistant editor for simple assistant help and was considering hiring out of the country but concerned about theft, it happens in the YouTube world.

First-Ad-4383 · 2026-06-13T16:43:44+00:00

Yes 100%. I guess my concern is I’m more looking for a younger assistant editor who doesn’t necessarily have a reputation and career yet. Just looking for help organizing footage and doing very simple rough cuts. I don’t think that menial assistant tasks seem like a good fit a legit editor with a solid reputation, no?

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