Video Editor for YouTube Videos about Music Production.

Who you'd be editing for: TouchTone DSG ("The Peoples Producer") — a 20-year mixing/mastering engineer building a brand around teaching real studio craft and documenting the build of an AI mixing tool. The channel is premium and credible — clean, high-end — not busy meme-edited slop. The audience is producers and engineers who respect specifics and can smell fake. Your edits represent a brand built on sound, so the bar is high — especially on audio. The role: my one ongoing long-form YouTube editor, every week — not one-off gigs. I shoot; you turn raw footage into finished, retention-optimized videos. Workload & turnaround: 1–2 long-form videos/week, ongoing (monthly). 72-hour turnaround per video from footage delivery — non-negotiable; it's what lets me publish 2x/week. Reliability matters more to me than anything else. 2 revision rounds per video. What you'll edit: educational/tutorial videos (me on camera + Ableton screen-recordings cut in sync), story/reveal videos, comment-response videos, occasionally course lessons. The style I'm after: Hook-first, retention-driven pacing — cut dead air, ums, rambles — but clean and intentional, not frantic jump-cut spam. Premium, not hyperactive. Screen-share in sync — when I explain something in Ableton, zoom/highlight the exact control or number I'm talking about. On-screen text for the key numbers (e.g. "−18 dBFS") — clean, on-brand, never cheesy. Tasteful gear/studio b-roll; consistent brand look (intro/outro, lower-thirds, fonts, colors — I'll provide assets); clean premium color. Audio is non-negotiable (the part most editors get wrong): this is a mixing/mastering channel — bad audio is brand suicide. Dialogue clean, de-noised, leveled, ~−14 LUFS, no clipping; music subtle and ducked under my voice; and when DAW mix demos / A-Bs play, they stay at honest, undistorted levels. An editor who ships muddy or clipped audio is an instant no. Technical & delivery: source is 4K (Sony A7S III, sometimes multi-cam) + Ableton screen recordings → deliver YouTube-ready MP4/H.264, 4K (1080p min) + captions. Tool is your choice (Premiere/Resolve/FCP) if the output's clean and revisions are quick. Workflow: organized raw footage + screen recordings via Google Drive, with a short beat-sheet per video. Proactive communication — flag risks early; ghosting or silent slippage is the dealbreaker. Great fit: reliable above all (consistent 72hr, communicates early) · real tutorial-editing experience · music/audio sensibility · takes direction without ego. Not in scope: shorts/clips (handled by OpusClip) and thumbnails (separate — bonus if you're strong at them). Long-form only unless we negotiate it in.