Moto-Vlog Video Editor

*** PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE POSTING BEFORE REPLYING. DO NOT EMAIL US DIRECTLY!!! COMMUNICATE THROUGH THE PLATFORM ONLY!!! OVERVIEW Craig Luke is a Canadian moto-vlogger based in Nelson, British Columbia. He is riding solo, coast to coast off-road, to remap the Trans Canada Adventure Trail. 15,000 km from Grant Bay on Vancouver Island to St. John's, Newfoundland. Roughly six months on the dirt. You are the editor who turns each day's raw footage into a finished, upload-ready video. This is off-road adventure motorcycling made by riders for riders. Authentic and practical. Real Canadian backcountry travel, not influencer polish. Craig shoots on a lightweight Kove 450 Rally and lives on a strict $50/day budget. Every video should feel like the viewer is out there with him. The style benchmark is Itchy Boots, youtube.com/@ItchyBoots. Clean, story-driven pacing built around solo travel, geographic progression, map tracking and the raw beauty of the trail. Not hyper-edited visual noise. Publish cadence is one episode every 3 days to start. Turnaround is 48 hours from the moment your footage is ready. READ THIS FIRST. HARDWARE IS A HARD GATE. This job moves heavy 8K Insta360 footage and 4K files. Most machines cannot handle it. We have lost good editors whose computers shut down under the load. So we screen hardware before anything else. If your machine cannot do this comfortably, please do not apply. You will lose time and so will we. You need at minimum: A modern multi-core CPU. Intel i7 or i9 10th gen or newer, Ryzen 7 or 9, or Apple Silicon M1 Pro, M2, M3 or newer. 32GB RAM minimum. 16GB will choke on 8K. A dedicated GPU with 6GB VRAM or more. NVIDIA RTX is ideal for Premiere and the Insta360 plugin. A fast SSD with at least 250GB free working space. 8K files are huge. Internet fast enough to pull large 8K files and deliver finished video. Run a speed test and send it. We will ask for your specs and a speed test screenshot up front. No proof, no folder. THE ROLE We outline each episode in a shared Google Sheet. An episode may cover one day or several days. You build one finished episode per outline. We engage you video by video to start. If the work is strong and we click, we build a long-term relationship from there. We want one go-to editor for the entire 15,000 km project across Canada and beyond. REVIEW THE CHANNEL FIRST Watch the channel for context and style: youtube.com/@ithinkwemissedaturn Match the rider-to-rider feel and then raise the bar. Come with ideas. Better pacing, cleaner sound design, sharper color, smarter cutaways, stronger hooks, chapter markers, retention editing. Tell us what you would do differently and why. REFERENCE VIDEOS Study these before your first edit. They show the target. Match the pacing, energy and storytelling. Do not copy shot for shot. Style we want: youtu.be/t8R4xB9k6xI Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cmY8qEdvIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eoh2_8u8sk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z2ze8j51m8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5YrGuIGgVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnvzMBCWt0I Benchmark: Itchy Boots, youtube.com/@ItchyBoots SOURCE FOOTAGE Craig shoots each day on three cameras. Insta360 X4. 360 capture for reframing and impossible angles. 8K. Insta360 GO Ultra. Mounted POV and cube shots. Phone. Handheld and talking-to-camera footage. HOW YOU GET THE FOOTAGE Most assets live in a Google Drive day folder. Photos, phone clips, the route map video and Craig's voiceover when there is one. The 360 footage is different. You pull it yourself from the Insta360 account using the Insta360 Studio app. We give you login access. You download only the clips for your assigned day, reframe them in Studio, then bring them into Premiere. You must be comfortable downloading and working with large 8K .insv files in Insta360 Studio. This is core to the job, not optional. One hard rule on account access. Do not delete anything from the account. Download what you need and leave everything in place. Other editors pull from the same account. THE 360 WORKFLOW Two ways. Pick the one your machine handles cleanly. Reframe and export in Insta360 Studio first, then bring into Adobe Premiere Pro. Or use the Adobe Premiere Pro Insta360 plugin to import and reframe the .insv files directly in Premiere. Everything finishes in Premiere. VOICEOVER. READ THIS CAREFULLY. Some days have Craig's voiceover in the folder. Lay it in as the spine of the story. Some days do not. On those days you build the visual cut from the footage first and let the footage tell the story. Get the sequence and pacing right and leave clean room for narration. Once we see your cut, Craig records the voiceover to match what you built. So a great editor here can find the story without a voice track handed to them. WHAT YOU BUILD One finished 15 to 20 minute episode per outline. The route map worked into the video. Usually it is in the folder. Occasionally you pull it from relive.com. The pre-made intro and outro applied to every video. People and scenery photos worked in as cutaways and b-roll where they fit. EDIT APPROACH Cut for story first, polish second. The ride is the star. Find the arc. Geographic progress, the struggle, the breakdown, the triumph, the camp routine. Keep it honest. No fake drama. Sound like a rider, not a brand. Build tension on technical trail. Go cinematic and calm at camp. The voice stays clear and on top of engine, wind and music. REQUIRED SKILLS Expert in Adobe Premiere Pro. This is the only editor we use. Insta360 workflow. Download, reframe and stabilize 8K 360 footage cleanly in Studio or the Premiere plugin. Handle heavy 8K and 4K files smoothly. See the hardware gate above. Audio layering and sound design. Keep the voice crystal clear over engine, wind and music. Story editing. Find the arc in hours of raw footage without over-editing. Strong English comprehension. You follow written outlines and check on-screen detail against what actually happened. Reliable communication and on-time delivery in the 48 hour window. NICE TO HAVE Map and motion graphics. Build route paths from GPX in Google Earth Studio, After Effects or a mapping plugin. After Effects for titles, lower thirds and clean motion graphics. Color grading in Lumetri. Thumbnail design. Travel, moto, outdoor or adventure editing experience. DELIVERY AND APPROVAL Deliver two ways. Drop the finished video into your Drive folder, or upload it to your own YouTube as private or unlisted and send the link. Do not make it public and do not use it to promote your own channel. Drop your Premiere project file into the folder when the cut is approved. Do not upload anything to our YouTube. We handle that for now. Use the title, description and tags from the Google Sheet. If Craig covered something not in the outline, update the metadata to match what happened. Export spec. MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio. 1920x1080 minimum. 1440p or 4K if your source supports it. Export the highest quality your source allows. YouTube re-compresses on its end, so give it the best file you can. PAY We are a Canadian company. All pay is in CAD. Paid trial. We start with a short paid trial so we both confirm the fit. You edit your first few videos at a trial rate. Standard rate. Your per-video rate steps up once the trial passes and we are working well together. Performance bonus. As channel revenue grows we add a bonus tied to views on the videos you personally edit. Added to your base, never instead of it. We do not track hours. You manage your own schedule as long as the milestones and quality hold. HOW TO APPLY We only hire people who pay attention to detail. Automated or copy-pasted applications get ignored. Include all of the below. Start your message with this exact line: "I found the turn! - ITWMAT Video Editor". Your portfolio. Links to YouTube or adventure content you personally edited. Include examples with maps or heavy voiceover. Your machine specs. CPU, RAM, GPU and free SSD space. Be specific. See the hardware gate. A speed test screenshot. Download and upload both. Production ideas. After watching the channel, name two or three specific things you would do to raise the quality. Your target rate in CAD per 15 to 20 minute finished video. NEXT STEP Watch the two reference videos and the channel, then reply with your specs, your speed test and your production ideas. We move fast with editors who clear the hardware gate.