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Each topic is a hub. Articles inside it link to each other and back to the hub, so you can follow a question from price to hire.
Cost and pricing
What video editors charge, read off real starting prices and packages rather than a rate card someone made up.
Hiring and vetting
How to tell a reliable editor from a good-looking portfolio, using the signals the marketplace actually records.
Software and workflow
Which tools editors work in, and what that changes about price, speed and the files you get back.
Formats and platforms
Cut lengths, aspect ratios and deliverables for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, with the platform specs named at source.
Working with an editor
Briefs, revision rounds, timestamped feedback and turnaround: how a job runs once someone is hired.
The business of editing
For editors: what to charge, what the platform keeps, how payouts clear and what clients look for.
Brands and UGC
How brands brief, budget and pay for UGC edits: per video, CPM, retainer, hourly or fixed.
Payments, escrow and fees
Where the money sits between brief and approval, what each side pays, and how disputes end.
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Freelance video editor rates, answered with marketplace data
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UGC editor cost, answered with marketplace data
How does escrow work for freelance video editing?
How do I vet a freelance video editor before hiring?
No survey says. No industry estimate. Our own data, or nothing.
Each article answers one question from our bank of 130, and every number in it is computed from editor profiles, packages, briefs and orders on this marketplace. Platform specs are quoted with their source named. Before anything goes live it has to clear every gate on the right, and then an editor has to approve it.
Read enough? Brief an editor.
Post a brief for free, compare editors on the same numbers these articles use, and pay from escrow only when you approve the cut.