Drop your footage. Get back a finished edit.
Upload raw footage for a YouTube video or Shorts and see the exact price. Pay half to start, and the rest only after you've watched your edit.
YouTube videos from $49Shorts from $29See pricing
Drag and drop your video files
Raw clips, a screen recording or a podcast, up to 60 minutes. Your price appears right away.
Real edits, made by the editor that will edit yours.
Client videos our editor cut: talking-head YouTube videos, documentaries, promos. Where we have the footage as it arrived, flip to Raw and compare.
A finance creator's talking head, cut tight with charts and callouts
His own four-minute take, cut tight: captions on every line, a callout panel for the advice everyone gives, arrows that rise and fall with what he says, and a stock chart that drops as he talks. This is the opening 37 seconds.
A real client edit, made by our editor. Switch to Raw to see the footage as it arrived.
From raw clips to a finished edit, without a single call.
Drop your footage
Upload the raw files from your computer. Your price appears as soon as we've read how long they are.
Pay half
A 50% deposit starts the edit. You get a private order page with a live progress bar and a time estimate.
Watch the preview
The finished edit arrives with a watermark. Ask for changes up to two times and we re-cut it.
Pay the rest, download
Happy with it? Pay the other half and the clean, full-quality file unlocks instantly.
One clear price, before you pay anything.
Priced by how much raw footage you send, never by the hour. Music, logos and reference files are free to add.
YouTube video
$49up to 10 min of footage
- Mistakes, pauses and dead air cut out
- Captions and on-screen titles
- Motion graphics timed to what you say
- Music and sound design under your voice
- Color and loudness balanced for YouTube
Shorts, Reels & TikToks
$29per short
- A hook in the first two seconds
- Bold word-by-word captions
- Punch-ins, motion and sound effects
- Reframed to vertical 9:16
- Up to 90 seconds each
Add when you approve your edit
What do you need?
- YouTube edit (up to 10 min of footage)
- $49
- Extra footage (2 min × $3)
- $6
- Total
- $55
- To start (50%)
- $27.50
You see the whole edit before you pay for it.
Half up front starts the work. The other half is due only after you've watched your finished video, start to finish. It stays watermarked until then, and there are two rounds of changes if something's off.
- Not happy? Point at the moment and say what to change.
- Can't be delivered? Your deposit comes back.
- Approved? The clean, full-quality file unlocks instantly.
A faceless documentary, built from a voiceover
Scroll through what the editor did, moment by moment.
An arrivals board for the first line
“Flight 1833 Dallas arrived” flips onto a departures-style board as the story opens.
The product, mocked up
A booking page with “Fares from $9” builds on screen, so the viewer sees the deal the story is about.
A number on a map
16,999 workers, shown over a dotted map of the U.S.
Stock footage, labeled
A fuel pump and a refinery at night, each tagged with the cause the narration names: “High fuel prices”, “Refinery cutbacks”.
The business model as a chart
A line climbs to “Made them rich” while the narration explains the math.
The fine print, magnified
A $9 seat card with a magnifier sliding over the asterisk.
The loss lands
A red “−$72 million” over a falling chart.
A real client edit, made by our editor.
Three ways to get a video edited.
| Compared on | Editing it yourself | Hiring an editor | DoneCut |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price for 10 minutes of footage | Your evenings | $50–$327, freelancers to editing services* | $49, shown the moment your files are added |
| Turnaround | As long as it takes you | Usually 1–7 days | Typically under 90 minutes once it starts, in our test orders so far |
| See it before paying in full | — | Rarely | Yes, a full watermarked preview |
| Back-and-forth to start | None, but you learn the tool | Messages, calls, a brief | Drop files, write a note |
| Changes | As many as you have time for | Depends on the agreement | Two rounds included |
| Who does the editing | You, in an editing app | A person you find and brief | Our AI editor |
*Published prices for a 10-minute edit, from Fiverr freelancers to per-video editing services, checked October 2026. Prices and sources
Made for the videos you already film.
If it was recorded on a phone, a camera or a screen recorder, the editor can work with it.
- YouTube talking-head videosMistakes and pauses cut, captions in the opening, graphics timed to what you say.
- Podcasts into clipsUpload the episode, get the strongest moments back as vertical shorts.
- Shorts, Reels and TikToksA hook in the first two seconds, word-by-word captions, reframed to 9:16.
- Testimonials and reviewsA customer's story cut to its best lines, with their name on screen.
- Product and brand promosYour own footage and logo, cut into an ad that looks like your brand.
- Travel and vlog reelsRaw clips cut to the beat of a track, with one consistent color grade.
Questions
Something else? Email support@donecut.com
How much does it cost to edit a YouTube video?
$49 for up to 10 minutes of raw footage, then $3 for each extra minute. For example, 20 minutes of footage costs $79. You see the exact price as soon as your files are added, before you pay anything.
How much does it cost to edit Shorts, Reels or TikToks?
$29 for one, $25 each for 2–5, $22 each for 6–11 and $19 each for 12 or more. Each short is up to 90 seconds and includes up to 5 minutes of raw footage; extra footage is $3 a minute.
How long does an edit take?
You see a live estimate before you pay, based on the real queue. Once an edit starts, our test orders and sample edits so far have taken between 16 minutes and about 1.5 hours of editing, depending on how much footage there is. Your order page updates as it goes.
Who actually edits my video?
An AI editor working with professional editing tools. It cuts your footage, times the captions, builds the graphics and mixes the sound, then checks its own work against your notes before you see anything. An edit that doesn't pass those checks goes to a person first.
What if I don't like the edit?
You've only paid half at that point. Two rounds of changes are included: point at the moment, say what to change, and a new preview comes back. If we can't deliver an edit at all, your deposit is refunded.
What should I upload?
Your raw footage, plus anything that helps: music, your logo, reference images or a PDF storyboard. Only the video footage is priced; everything else is free to add. Write what you want in the notes box, in your own words.
What files and sizes can I upload?
MP4, MOV, MKV, WAV, MP3, JPG, PNG, PDF and most other common formats. Up to 25 files and 25 GB per order, 10 GB per file, and up to 60 minutes of footage.
Can it match my style every time?
Yes. Sign in and save your logo, brand colors, caption style and standing instructions once. Every edit after that also studies the edits you already approved, so new videos look like your channel.
Do I keep the rights to my video?
Yes. Your footage stays yours, and the finished video is yours once it's paid for in full. We use your files only to make your edit, never to train AI, and delete the raw footage 30 days after delivery.
Why is there a watermark on the preview?
So you can watch the complete edit before paying the second half. The clean, full-quality file unlocks the moment you approve and pay.
Your footage is already on your computer.
Upload your footageYouTube videos from $49Shorts from $29See pricing