r/VideoEditors

Hi everyone,

I'm a student and I've been doing video editing for quite some time. I'm confident in my editing skills and can work on different types of videos, including reels, shorts, social media content, cinematic edits, and YouTube videos.

The problem is not the editing itself—it's finding clients.

I've tried posting my work on social media, but I'm not getting many inquiries. Since I'm still building my freelance career, I want to know how experienced editors and freelancers actually find clients consistently.

Some questions I have:

• Which platforms are best for getting video editing clients?

• Is cold DMing on Instagram, LinkedIn, or email still effective?

• How do you approach potential clients without sounding spammy?

• What type of portfolio attracts more clients?

• If you were starting from scratch today, what would be your strategy?

I'm willing to do the outreach myself and put in the effort. I just want to understand what actually works in the current market.

Any advice, personal experiences, or success stories would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

This is a humble request to all video editors .

Guys please don't fall for clients providing you projects for less than 500.

It's been more than one month here and I am seeing people seeking projects of 250 and 100 rs too.

Guys have some value and respect your skill.

I'm new to the editing thing, I get some new ideas but can't edit as I want thought, few week learn by you tube but feels like a I'm not learning so planning to invest in a course.

pls share your suggestions it would be very useful

Hello,

We need a reaction channel editor. Someone with experience working with reaction channels

Pays $10-$30 per video

Please DM with you relevant work

Tryna figure out what frame rate I should shoot my vlogs in. The style I’m going for is a mix of really cinematic/awe-inspiring footage (beautiful compositions, carefully edited sequences, shots that are meant to feel emotional, music video-type vibes, etc.) along with more general/real-time footage of me talking, walking around, filming whatever is in front of me, etc.

I also want music to play a big role in the videos. The goal is for the editing, visuals, sound and music to work together to make the viewer actually feel whatever emotion I’m trying to convey, rather than just making the footage look cinematic for the sake of it/standard vlogging where nothing's actually happening.

I’ve seen a lot of different opinions online about 24fps being the “cinematic” standard vs shooting at higher frame rates like 60/120fps, and I’m wondering what would make the most sense for this kind of hybrid vlog style.

Should I shoot everything at 24fps? Everything at 60fps? 24fps for normal footage and 60/120fps selectively for cinematic/slowmo shots? Or something else entirely?

Especially interested from an editing/storytelling/immersion perspective, rather than just which one technically looks better. Appreciate any insight I could get into this

I absolutely love doing my color grading in DaVinci Resolve, but my God… I really feel like Resolve is so far behind Premiere Pro when it comes to editing.

I tried Premiere for a month and honestly, I really enjoyed using it.
I’m also going to start learning motion design with After Effects alongside my editing.
So now I’m really torn between two options:

👉 Keep editing in DaVinci, do all my color grading there, and use After Effects alongside it for motion design?

Or

👉 Move everything to Adobe — Premiere Pro + After Effects — and give up that side of the color grading workflow that I love so much in DaVinci Resolve?

What would you guys recommend?

i recently became a video editor for a youtuber with 100k+ subs who requested my help a while ago.
things are going well and good but since i am new to these field (as in video editing for other people,i know how to edit and do things) i dont have a good idea of how much i want to charge,so

we ended up on 40$ per video,the videos can be from 20 mins to 50+mins long where the editing is mostly cutting parts from the stream and adding memes or effects to make it entertaining (the price stays the same).
since i am new to this,i have no contact to previous editors or anyone that would be willing enough to share how much i should value myself or if the current rate i am doing is too low or too high or is it even in the right rate (i saw some people charging per hour instead) .i hope someone help me out. thank you for reading

I'm currently trying to start my YouTube channel related to true crime and investigations. I'm just having trouble figuring out what's good to edit my videos. Any advice on what yall use to edit your videos?

I do freelance editing as a side gig (even though I also work as a part time AI security engineer and still in college following my cybersecurity degree lol).

Right now I only have a single client but he pays around $3k a month which is decent for the amount of work I put in.

My problem is that I got many other clients approaching me with attractive budgets that I end up turning down simply because I don't have time to work on them without compromising school. How to scale up? I haven't worked with partners before and don't know how to vet people to work with.

Has anyone been in a similar position? any advice?