Video editing · Post-production
Video editing in Halifax for footage you already have
Already have the footage? We handle colour grading, sound, motion graphics and pacing, then deliver the format you need for web, social or screens. Short social edits start at $79 plus HST. Send a sample first, and we will tell you honestly if it can be saved.
What the edit covers
Color Grading
Consistent, on-brand color correction and grading across every clip in the final cut.
Sound Design
Music, voiceover, and sound effects mixed to match the tone of the piece.
Motion Graphics
Titles, lower thirds, and animated graphics layered in where they add clarity or polish.
Delivery Formats
Exported in the aspect ratio and format your platform needs, whether that’s a website hero video, a social cut, or a broadcast-ready file.
When Editing-Only Is the Right Call
There is a hard drive in most businesses with several hours of usable video on it. Phone clips from job sites, a conference talk someone recorded, footage from a shoot two years ago that produced one video and forty minutes of unused material. That is an asset, and almost nobody treats it like one.
Editing-only is genuinely the right answer if you have footage and no finished video, if you have one video and need six shorter cuts for social, if your team already films well enough on a phone, or if something happened that simply cannot be reshot. It is also the cheapest way to get a dated video back into service: new graphics, tighter pacing, updated end card, at a fraction of starting over.
What We Can and Cannot Fix
Worth being straight about the limits, because a good editor tells you this before taking your money rather than after.
Audio cannot be rescued
Improved, sometimes. Fixed, no. If an interview was recorded in a room with a fan running and no external microphone, the fan is in the recording permanently. This is the most common reason we tell someone their footage is not usable.
Missing coverage cannot be edited in
If you filmed one continuous take from one angle, there is nothing to cut to, which makes every cut a jarring jump. Editing needs options to work with.
Severe exposure problems are terminal
Blown-out windows behind a subject, or footage so dark it is mostly noise, has no recoverable detail. Colour correction works with information that exists in the file.
Shoot format is fixed
Vertical footage cannot become horizontal, or the reverse, without cropping heads out of frame.
Send a sample first
Two minutes of watching tells us which side of the line your footage falls on. It costs you nothing and it saves you paying for an edit that cannot work.
How Editing Is Priced
By hours of work, not by minutes of finished video, which surprises people. A tight 60-second cut assembled from messy footage can take longer than a five-minute video built from clean, well-organized material.
As a rough guide, projects in this market run $300 to $2,000. What pushes it up: the volume of raw footage, because someone has to watch all of it before any editing starts; how well the files are organized; audio repair; burned-in captions and motion graphics; and revision rounds. Add 14% HST.
Our entry point is well below that. The Quick Edit Package is $79 plus HST: five to ten photos or short clips, professional colour and light correction, one 15–30 second Reel, background music and logo animation, optimised for Instagram and Facebook, two-day delivery with one minor revision. It exists for exactly the situation this page describes, which is footage you already have and cannot use. Bigger edits with hours of raw material, audio repair or motion graphics are quoted by the hour.
Captions are worth paying for. Many people watch social video with the sound off, and captions help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. There is more on how the hours add up, and how to stop revisions doubling the bill, in hiring a video editor in Halifax.
Common Questions
What should I send you?
All the raw footage, including the takes you think are bad, because the usable ten seconds is often in one of them. Plus any logo files, brand colours and fonts, a reference video you like with a note on what you like about it, the target length, and where it is going.
How do we hand over large files?
A shared drive link is easiest. If the footage is on SD cards or a physical drive and you are in HRM, we can collect it.
What is the turnaround?
Usually five to seven business days for a first cut on a standard project, depending on how much raw footage there is to work through. Rush work is possible if you say so when you brief it.
How do we keep revision costs down?
Nominate one decision-maker, give feedback with timecodes rather than impressions, and approve the structure before anyone polishes it. Committee feedback is the most expensive kind.
Can you cut one video into several social clips?
Yes, and it is one of the best-value things we do. Pulling the strongest moments out of existing material often outperforms filming something new.
If You Need the Footage Shot Too
Editing is where the video actually gets made, but it needs something to work with. If there is no usable footage yet, start with a video shoot in Halifax and we will handle both ends. If it is aerial coverage you are missing, that is our drone videography service. For budgeting a shoot rather than an edit, see what video production costs in Halifax.
You can watch four of our finished projects before you decide.
Footage sitting on a hard drive?
Send us two minutes of it and tell us where the video will run. It costs nothing to check.