Short-form video editor — cut 20-min interviews into clean, high-retention Reels/Shorts

I run a YouTube interview series on chronic illness and the future of chronic care. Guests range from patients to physicians to researchers. Each episode is about 20 minutes. I need an editor to turn these into vertical clips for Instagram/Facebook Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. What I’m looking for The clips have to hold attention without looking busy. Think clean: one text hook, clean captions, the speaker, and nothing else fighting for the eye. No stock B-roll, no emoji rain, no zoom-punch on every sentence, no music unless I approve it. The attention has to come from picking the right moment and cutting it tightly, not from effects. Every clip needs: - A text hook in the first frame and a cut that gets to the point within the first 2 seconds - Burned-in captions in a clean, readable style (I’ll give you the font and colors) - The guest’s name and credential as a lower-third - A clean ending Specs: 9:16, 1080×1920, MP4, 30–60 seconds. Delivered to a shared Drive folder with the project file. The work - You watch the full interview and pick 4–6 clippable moments per episode. A good clip stands on its own: a claim, a story, a surprising take. If the clip only makes sense with the full interview, it isn’t a clip. - You send me the timestamps before cutting so I can approve or swap. - You cut, caption, deliver. Two revision rounds per episode are included. - Captions transcribe what the guest said, word for word. These are medical conversations, so no paraphrasing or tightening of what someone said. Volume: I have a backlog of episodes now and record new ones weekly, so this is ongoing work if the first round goes well. How to apply - One example clip you’ve edited from long-form content (a podcast, interview, or talk) that you think shows your style. One link is enough. I’m looking at how you chose the moment and how clean the result is, not how many effects you know. - A one-line answer to: how do you decide which 45 seconds of a 20-minute conversation to pull? Paid trial The first milestone is a paid test: one episode, 4 clips, at the per-clip rate you quote. If the test is strong, I’ll open milestones for the rest of the backlog and ongoing episodes. Terms Fixed price per clip. All deliverables, project files, and caption files belong to Jadewell, Inc. on payment. Episodes are confidential until published, and clips can’t go in your portfolio until they’re live on my channels. Please quote your per-clip rate for a 4–6 clip episode where you select the moments.