This is a professionally produced, short-form (~ 25–30 minutes) cinematic documentary that tells the story of the development of Waterfall City in South Africa and explores how thoughtfully planned cities can create economic opportunity and improve quality of life. The film is intended for public exhibition, corporate audiences, conferences, online distribution, and broadcast/streaming consideration. The tone should feel cinematic and emotionally engaging rather than corporate or promotional. We’re looking for a creative, technically skilled, communicative, visionary, diversely talented editor to join the team. Scope of Services The Producer will provide: -- Approved treatment and story outline -- Interview footage -- B-roll and drone footage -- Archival photographs and video -- Graphics assets (logos, maps, renderings, etc.) -- Licensed music (or temporary music if still being finalized) -- Narration recordings (or placeholder narration) -- An associate producer or edit assistant to help source footage The Editor shall provide all editorial services necessary to deliver a finished picture lock. Edit Services include: 1. Media Organization -- Ingest and organize all project media; label and organize footage -- Create project structure 2. Interview Selects -- Review all interview footage, identify strongest emotional and narrative moments, and insert best moments as ID’ed by Producer / EA -- Flag additional pickup interview needs if identified 3. Story Assembly & Editorial Refinement -- Construct an initial documentary assembly based upon the Producer's treatment, and build the story using all available elements -- Restructure scenes where appropriate to improve pacing and storytelling, and balance exposition with emotional storytelling -- Implement Producer notes throughout the editorial process and prepare: - Assembly Cut - Rough Cut - Fine Cut (to time) - Picture Lock With up to three (3) rounds of final Producer revisions prior to Picture Lock 4. Graphics Integration -- Create, insert and time: Title cards / credit sequences, lower thirds, archival captions, renderings, maps, stats (all of which will be provided) -- some light motion graphics as reasonably needed 5. Audio & Color Preparation -- Perform basic sound and dialogue balancing – e.g., remove obvious pops and unwanted pauses, balance music and nat sound, provide initial sound design and mix -- Edit music (songs + score) and sound into the film, creating smooth transitions and adjusting pacing as needed -- Perform color correction and grading as needed 6. Delivery & Packaging Provide: - All cuts of movie - Picture-locked timeline - Master ProRes file ready for submission to distributors - H.264 review copy - Project files - XML/AAF for color and sound - Linked media list - Music cue sheet - All materials necessary for publication / distribution of the movie Application Requirements Please include: -- Resume, intro letter -- Relevant documentary experience with links to samples -- Any additional experience – production, story editing, graphic design, motion graphics, animation, color correction, etc. -- Editing software used – including how you like to receive and implement notes (e.g., Frame or similar software) -- Fixed project fee -- Estimated timeline & availability -- Questions you have for us Evaluation Criteria Proposals will be evaluated based on: -- Documentary storytelling ability – including narrative pacing, interview editing, visual style, and creativity -- Technical proficiency -- Communication & personality -- Ability to meet deadlines We’ll take the next few days to review your submissions, answer any questions, ask some follow up questions, and then set interviews with the final few candidates, with hopes of having someone on board in the next two weeks. This is a great project for a really great client doing important work and this film will be seen – throughout Africa and in the US, so it’s a unique opportunity for a talented, communicative, hard-working, self-starting editor who wants to work with cool people, make a splash, and do some good at the same time! Thank you for your time and consideration.

We are looking for a highly skilled, professional video editor and animator to help bring a travel YouTube vlog to life. This video needs to feel polished, fast-paced, funny, and highly engaging. We are looking for someone who can add strong comedic timing, map motion graphics, animations, captions, light sound design, and visual effects that make the story more entertaining and dynamic. The ideal candidate has experience editing both long-form YouTube videos and vertical short-form content. We need someone who can take the full YouTube vlog and adapt it into high-performing vertical clips for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels. Must have: Expert-level video editing experience Strong comedic timing and storytelling skills Experience with travel vlogs or adventure-style content Ability to create map animations and motion graphics Ability to add captions, sound effects, music, and light sound design Experience formatting content for both YouTube and vertical short-form platforms We are looking for someone who can make the final video feel fun, professional, and highly watchable from start to finish.

Hiring contract editors with comedic taste. -$60/hr + performance bonuses, remote, flexible hours. I'm training an ai model to actually be funny. The work is reading conversations, rating the model's attempts at humor, and rewriting the weak ones. It's closer to editing than performing.

HOMEiA.com is seeking experienced editors based in the United States to review and ensure the accuracy of our location-specific article(s). These pieces require a final review from an expert with deep, current knowledge of a specific local market. Key Responsibilities: Perform a comprehensive review of lifestyle and relocation content for a specific US location. Ensure grammatical accuracy, cultural relevance, and factual correctness for the local market. Maintain engaging, reader-focused content that resonates with the target demographic. Uphold editorial standards and meet deadlines. Ideal Candidate Qualifications: Required: Professional editing/proofreading experience with a portfolio. Deep, current knowledge of a specific US city or state. Proven ability to edit for local accuracy and cultural nuance. More detail of the ideal editors we are looking for: https://homeia.com/marketing/homeia-local-editors-build-your-reputation-while-shaping-where-people-live/ Preferred: Experience with lifestyle, real estate, or relocation content. Familiarity with digital content platforms. To Apply, Please Include: Geographic Focus: Clearly state your state/city of expertise in your proposal's first line. Portfolio Sample: Provide at least one recent editing sample with tracked changes. Professional Summary: A brief summary highlighting your relevant experience. Process: Applications are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. The States we need local editors for: Maryland Kansas New Jersey Oklahoma West Virginia Vermont Idaho Hawaii Philadelphia Oklahoma Wisconsin Arizona Oregon Pennsylvania

Video & Photo Editors Needed for Growing Marketing Agency (Long-Term Opportunity) We are a growing creative marketing agency looking to build a reliable roster of talented video and photo editors for ongoing contract work. Our agency works across multiple industries including: • Small businesses • Corporate brands • Nonprofits • Sports and athlete content • Personal brands • Commercial and promotional marketing campaigns We are looking for editors who are: • Responsive and communicative • Able to meet deadlines consistently • Available for ongoing work • Comfortable editing different styles of content • Open to feedback and revisions when needed • Professional and dependable Most projects include: • Instagram Reels / TikTok edits • Promotional videos • Event recap videos • Commercial-style edits • Sports content • Podcast/social clips • Brand storytelling content • Photography retouching and color correction Requirements: • Fast response times • Strong organization and file management • Ability to deliver projects on time • Experience with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom, and/or Photoshop • Strong understanding of pacing, music, captions, transitions, and modern social media editing styles • Ability to color grade footage professionally and apply LUTs when necessary • Ability to color correct and enhance photography content • Understanding of cinematic visuals and polished brand presentation • Ability to work in a fast-paced agency environment You do NOT need to specialize in one specific niche, but you should be versatile and capable of adapting to different client styles and industries. Bonus if you have experience with: • Motion graphics • Sound design • Sports edits • Cinematic storytelling • Corporate/commercial editing • Social media optimization • Advanced color grading workflows When applying, please include: 1. Portfolio or sample work 2. Your typical turnaround times 3. What editing software you use 4. Your availability each week 5. Your preferred rate structure We are looking for long-term relationships with editors who want consistent opportunities as our agency continues to grow.

Company Description sojo provides amenities for vacation rentals — but we're not just a product company. We're the vacation rental industry's first amenity automation platform, and a B2B SaaS company operating at the intersection of product, tech, and logistics. We connect directly to property managers' reservation calendars to automate guest amenity delivery — think welcome bundles, toiletry kits, custom-branded coffee packaging, and snack bags waiting for guests when they walk through the door. We handle everything from sourcing products to custom packaging design to making sure the right products are packed and shipped on time for every single reservation. It's a pretty cool thing to tell stories about. Role Description We're building out our video production capability and need a skilled editor who can handle a growing pipeline of content — from polished case study videos to punchy social reels. This role is a great fit for someone with a strong eye for pacing and storytelling who's equally comfortable cutting a 10-minute client interview into a 30-second reel and producing a polished explainer from scratch. Here's what you'll be working on: - Client Case Studies. Video components to live alongside written case studies on our website — polished, story-driven, and sales-ready. - Social Reels. Cut existing long-form client interviews down into tight, high-impact reels for Instagram and LinkedIn. - How It Works Video. We'll script it — you help us execute and bring it to life. - Paid Ad Creatives. Short-form video assets optimized for paid social. - Ongoing Social Content. A regular cadence of reels and short-form video for organic social. What We're Looking For - Strong editing fundamentals — pacing, cuts, sequencing, and storytelling. - Social-native — you know how to edit for Reels: hooks, captions, retention. - Comfortable with motion graphics, lower thirds, and animated text. - Sound design chops — music selection, mixing, VO cleanup. - Able to work from provided footage *and* occasionally source or lightly direct when we don't have raw assets. - Bonus: Experience with testimonial or B2B case study video content. - Responsive, reliable, and able to turn around projects quickly. - Familiarity with Air, Notion, Slack, and Figma a plus. To Apply Share your reel or portfolio — bonus points if you include an example of a social cut from a longer interview. Include a note on your turnaround time and your rate.

I run a faceless YouTube channel focused on geography, countries, and culture content (think Geography Now, RealLifeLore, Half as Interesting). I'm looking for a skilled video editor to join long-term and turn scripts/voiceovers into polished, engaging long-form videos. This is ongoing work — if we're a good fit, I want to build a lasting working relationship with a consistent weekly delivery schedule. What You'll Be Doing Edit long-form videos (10–18 minutes) from a provided script and AI or human voiceover track Source and incorporate relevant stock footage, maps, and images to match the narration Add simple motion graphics: animated maps, borders, flags, zoom-ins/pans (Ken Burns style), lower thirds, and callout text Add clean, accurate captions/subtitles Edit for pacing — keep viewer retention high with cuts, zooms, and visual variety synced to the voiceover Basic sound design: background music selection/mixing, sound effects, audio leveling Deliver a YouTube-ready MP4 export plus source project file

Job Title Copyeditor / Proofreader — 13,800-word nonfiction book (final polish, preserve voice) Job Description I’ve written a ~13,800-word nonfiction book for lash artists — a guide to body mechanics, ergonomics, and career longevity. The manuscript is complete and has already been through extensive developmental and line editing. I now need a professional copyedit and proofread for the final polish before design. This is copyediting and proofreading ONLY. I’m not looking for developmental editing, restructuring, or rewriting.

What I need A full line edit and copyedit of the manuscript, checking grammar, punctuation, spelling, and consistency (timeline, names, formatting) Preservation of first-person voice throughout, with no rewording for style unless something is a genuine error A tracked-changes version I can review and accept or reject line by line, plus a brief editorial note at the end flagging any recurring issues No use of em dashes anywhere in suggested edits Familiarity with or willingness to follow a locked style sheet I will provide (banned words and phrases, formatting rules) TOXIC — Style Sheet for Editors Manuscript by Serena Amari (pen name) | Memoir, approx. 19,000 words, 31 chapters Voice and Point of View ● First person throughout. Do not shift to second or third person for the author's own experience, even in passages that feel reflective or distanced. ● Voice is plain, observational, and restrained. Avoid suggesting edits that add literary flourish or emotional intensifying language. ● Tone is graceful, not accusatory. The author is not attacking her daughter in the text; do not flag this as a gap or suggest "balancing" language. Hard Rules — No Exceptions ● No em dashes anywhere. Use commas, semicolons, periods, or restructured sentences instead. ● No meta-commentary about the manuscript itself (no lines like "this is why I am writing this book" or similar self-referential framing). ● No invented details, quotes, or facts. Flag anything that reads as unverifiable rather than adding to it. Banned Words and Phrases ● AI-pattern vocabulary: delve, tapestry, nuanced, resonate, navigate, underscores, highlights, robust, framework, speaks to, and similar. ● Filler phrases: "Let me say this plainly," "I want to sit with that," "the way X always does," "and I will not pretend otherwise," "That is worth saying plainly," or close variants of any of these. ● "Door" metaphors (e.g., closing doors, open doors) and "sickness" language used metaphorically for the estrangement. ● Formulaic sign-offs or summary sentences that wrap up a chapter with a tidy moral. Names and Privacy ● No real names for any family members appear in the text. Family members are referred to by their relationship to the author (daughter, husband, mother, etc.). Preserve this; do not suggest adding names for clarity. ● The author writes under the pen name Serena Amari. This is intentional and should not be flagged. Scope of This Edit ● This is a line and copyedit, not a developmental edit. Structure, chapter order, and content are locked. ● Grammar, punctuation, spelling, and consistency (timeline, formatting, recurring details) are in scope. ● Rewording for style is out of scope unless something is a clear grammatical or mechanical error. Questions about any of the above should go to the author before changes are made. Thank you in advance!

I'm a licensed clinician and parenting expert building an education brand for parents of struggling kids and teens. I create all the raw content myself — talking-head videos and podcast recordings. I need one reliable person to turn that raw material into polished, published content every week. This is an execution role, not a strategy role. The content calendar, topics, and brand voice are already defined. Your job is to make the machine run. Weekly deliverables: Edit 3–4 Instagram Reels (60–90 sec) from raw talking-head footage I provide: trim dead air, add burned-in captions, add a text hook on screen, export to Instagram spec Edit 1 podcast episode (20–30 min): clean audio, cut restarts and flagged sections, upload to Buzzsprout with the title and description I approve Pull 2–3 short clips from each podcast episode for use as Reels Schedule all posts in the weekly content calendar (Later, Metricool, or similar) Light account management from a guideline doc: follow relevant accounts, flag comments and DMs that need my personal reply (you will not respond as me on substantive messages) Workflow: I batch-record and drop raw files in a shared Google Drive folder once a week with brief notes. You return edited drafts within 72 hours. One revision round per piece. One short weekly check-in call for the first month, then async. You're a fit if you have: A portfolio with talking-head educational or expert content (coaches, clinicians, educators — not just montages or meme edits) Native-level written English — captions must be accurate, including clinical vocabulary Experience with captioning/subtitling tools and at least one audio editor (Descript, CapCut, Premiere, Audacity — your choice, I care about output) A clear delivery process: organized files, consistent naming, deadlines met without chasing Good judgment about tone. This content deals with struggling kids and worried parents. It is direct but never clickbait. If your instinct is trending audio and rapid jump cuts, this isn't the right fit. Where this goes: This role starts focused, but it won't stay small. The brand has several additional offerings launching over the next year — a podcast expansion, parent programs, and professional training — and each will need content and social media support. My strong preference is to expand this role rather than hire around it. The person who proves themselves in the first three months has first claim on that growth. Compensation structure: $500/month flat retainer covering the deliverables above (works out to roughly $115–$125/week, or about $15–$18/hr at the expected 6–8 hrs/week). Paid through Upwork weekly milestones. As scope expands per the above, the retainer will be renegotiated upward to match. To apply: Link 2–3 examples of talking-head content you've edited (Reels, TikToks, or YouTube Shorts) Tell me in 2–3 sentences how you'd handle a raw 5-minute clip where the strongest moment is buried at the 3-minute mark Start your proposal with the word "ANCHOR" so I know you read this far Shortlisted candidates will be offered a short paid test edit before hiring.