Video editing

12 articles, each with the source for every number in it.

Outsourcing a faceless YouTube channel, Fixora Journal banner

Oct 25, 20266 min read

Running a Faceless YouTube Channel? Outsource the Script First

A faceless channel lives or dies on the script and the voice, yet most owners outsource the edit first because it is the part that looks like work. Here is the order we would do it in.

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How to hire a YouTube video editor, Fixora Journal banner

Oct 25, 20266 min read

How to Hire a YouTube Editor Without Losing Three Months

A showreel tells you an editor can make a good video. It cannot tell you whether they can make yours, on time, every week. One paid test on your own footage can.

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Long form YouTube editing and audience retention, Fixora Journal banner

Oct 25, 20268 min read

How a 45 Minute True Crime Video Keeps Its Audience

Most editing advice is about the first three seconds. On a 45 minute documentary that leaves 44 minutes and 57 seconds unaccounted for, and that is where channels actually lose their viewers.

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Oct 25, 20264 min read

What a True Crime Channel Takes at 15 Videos a Month

Fifteen long-form videos a month sounds like a volume problem. It is mostly a system problem, and the reference channels show why the pace has to ramp up.

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Oct 25, 20266 min read

The 40 Second Brand Film at the Top of Your Website

A brand film on a homepage plays muted, to someone deciding whether to scroll. That changes almost every decision about how it should be written, cut and delivered.

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What the Sora shutdown teaches about AI video pipelines, Fixora Journal banner

Aug 08, 20264 min read

OpenAI Shut Sora Down. Whose Pipeline Broke?

The Sora app closed on 26 April 2026 and the API follows on 24 September. Anyone who built a content operation on top of it now has a production problem, not a creative one.

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How to brief motion graphics, Fixora Journal banner

Aug 08, 20264 min read

How to Brief Motion Graphics Without Wasting Three Rounds

Animation is the most expensive thing to change late, because the timing, the design, and the sound are welded together. Almost every overrun traces back to a decision that was not made before the work started.

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UGC style versus polished video, Fixora Journal banner

Aug 08, 20264 min read

Rough Video Outperforms Polished Video, Until It Does Not

Creator style footage wins in the feed because it does not look like an advert. That advantage is contextual, and applying it everywhere is how brands end up looking cheap on the pages where trust is decided.

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Video editing rates in 2026, Fixora Journal banner

Aug 08, 20264 min read

Video Editing Rates in 2026: Freelancer, Studio, or In House

Editing is quoted three different ways, per hour or per finished minute or per deliverable, and only one of them protects the buyer from a bill that grows during revisions.

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Short form video by the numbers, Fixora Journal banner

Jun 20, 20263 min read

Short Form Video Statistics 2026: The Numbers Behind the Hype

49% of marketers call short form video their highest ROI format, and 66% of consumers call it the most engaging content. The 2026 data, and what to do about it.

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YouTube, TikTok, or Reels first, Fixora Journal banner

Apr 16, 20263 min read

YouTube vs TikTok vs Reels: Where Should Your Video Go First?

Reels reach 30% of audiences and favor small accounts, TikTok owns discovery, YouTube compounds for years. How to pick your first platform, with the data.

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A modern video editing workflow inside Adobe Premiere Pro using the Ask AI panel for cuts and subtitles

Jan 23, 20264 min read

The Modern Video Editing Workflow That Actually Ships

A field guide to the 2026 video editing stack: from import to publish, the steps and tools that turn raw footage into reels, longform, and ads without burning out.

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Video Editing

Vertical reels, longform edits, motion graphics, colour, and sound, produced on a rhythm. Built by a studio that also builds editing tools.

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