YouTube Video Editor for Cinematic Mystery & Storytelling Videos + Reels
Budget: ₹600 – ₹1,500 INR
I am looking for an experienced YouTube video editor to edit long-form storytelling videos for my channel Twisted Stories.
The editing quality needed is cinematic, visually rich, suspenseful, and highly engaging.
Please refer to any of my latest videos to understand the benchmark.
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✔ What I Need in Every Long-Form Video:
1. Background Music & Audio
• Strong sense of music selection based on story tone — mystery, suspense, intrigue.
• Clean audio, smooth transitions, and perfect volume balancing.
2. Visual Editing Requirements
• Smooth transitions between every scene.
• Proper zoom-ins / zoom-outs when important lines or punches are delivered.
• Full color correction across the video.
• Extracting usable, impactful shots from raw footage.
3. Visual Elements & Enhancements
• Video should be 60–70% visuals/elements and 30–40% on-camera shots.
• 4–5 high-quality animations added at relevant points (not the whole video).
• Integrate AI-generated images, research visuals, dynamic cutaways, and story elements.
• Insert news articles / research clips when mentioned in the script:
• Highlight relevant text in yellow
• Add proper courtesy credits
4. SFX
• Intelligent and appropriate sound effects to enhance storytelling.
• Balanced layers with background music.
5. Courtesy & Legal Requirements
• Every external image, article, screenshot, or visual must have:
• Clear courtesy / source credit
(This is mandatory.)
6. Additional Requirements
• Add my provided logo animation at designated points.
• Add my provided video outro.
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✔ Short-Form Content Requirement (Reels)
For each long-form video, I need:
✅ 3 Reels (45–60 seconds each)
• Each reel must be edited separately, not cropped from the long video.
• Reels should have their own 9:16 aspect ratio visuals, transitions, pacing, and SFX.
• Should feel like standalone short stories with perfect hooks and tight editing.
• Same quality expectation as YouTube shorts/reels that perform well.
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✔ Thumbnails (Major Plus)
If you know how to create high-converting, clickable YouTube thumbnails, that is a big advantage and will increase your chances of being hired.
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✔ Deliverables
• Minimum 1 long-form YouTube video per week
• 3 separately edited reels per video
• If you can deliver more than one long-form video per week, it’s a huge plus.
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✔ Ideal Candidate
• Strong experience with YouTube storytelling / documentary / mystery content
• Excellent sense of pacing, music, emotion, and visual storytelling
• Ability to create cinematic videos with lots of elements
• Comfortable adding animations, AI images, articles, and SFX
• Understands TikTok/Reel/Shorts editing
• Can maintain consistent quality and long-term workflow
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If you can deliver cinematic, engaging, and visually-packed videos that match my existing style and elevate it further, please apply with:
1. Links to previous YouTube/Reels work
2. Your experience in story-based video editing
3. Your weekly availability
Looking forward to finding a talented editor to grow with the channel!
The editing quality needed is cinematic, visually rich, suspenseful, and highly engaging.
Please refer to any of my latest videos to understand the benchmark.
⸻
✔ What I Need in Every Long-Form Video:
1. Background Music & Audio
• Strong sense of music selection based on story tone — mystery, suspense, intrigue.
• Clean audio, smooth transitions, and perfect volume balancing.
2. Visual Editing Requirements
• Smooth transitions between every scene.
• Proper zoom-ins / zoom-outs when important lines or punches are delivered.
• Full color correction across the video.
• Extracting usable, impactful shots from raw footage.
3. Visual Elements & Enhancements
• Video should be 60–70% visuals/elements and 30–40% on-camera shots.
• 4–5 high-quality animations added at relevant points (not the whole video).
• Integrate AI-generated images, research visuals, dynamic cutaways, and story elements.
• Insert news articles / research clips when mentioned in the script:
• Highlight relevant text in yellow
• Add proper courtesy credits
4. SFX
• Intelligent and appropriate sound effects to enhance storytelling.
• Balanced layers with background music.
5. Courtesy & Legal Requirements
• Every external image, article, screenshot, or visual must have:
• Clear courtesy / source credit
(This is mandatory.)
6. Additional Requirements
• Add my provided logo animation at designated points.
• Add my provided video outro.
⸻
✔ Short-Form Content Requirement (Reels)
For each long-form video, I need:
✅ 3 Reels (45–60 seconds each)
• Each reel must be edited separately, not cropped from the long video.
• Reels should have their own 9:16 aspect ratio visuals, transitions, pacing, and SFX.
• Should feel like standalone short stories with perfect hooks and tight editing.
• Same quality expectation as YouTube shorts/reels that perform well.
⸻
✔ Thumbnails (Major Plus)
If you know how to create high-converting, clickable YouTube thumbnails, that is a big advantage and will increase your chances of being hired.
⸻
✔ Deliverables
• Minimum 1 long-form YouTube video per week
• 3 separately edited reels per video
• If you can deliver more than one long-form video per week, it’s a huge plus.
⸻
✔ Ideal Candidate
• Strong experience with YouTube storytelling / documentary / mystery content
• Excellent sense of pacing, music, emotion, and visual storytelling
• Ability to create cinematic videos with lots of elements
• Comfortable adding animations, AI images, articles, and SFX
• Understands TikTok/Reel/Shorts editing
• Can maintain consistent quality and long-term workflow
⸻
If you can deliver cinematic, engaging, and visually-packed videos that match my existing style and elevate it further, please apply with:
1. Links to previous YouTube/Reels work
2. Your experience in story-based video editing
3. Your weekly availability
Looking forward to finding a talented editor to grow with the channel!