Drop your footage. Get back a finished edit.
Upload your raw video, see the price instantly and pay half. Your YouTube video or Shorts get edited while you watch, and you pay the rest only when you love it.
Drag and drop your video files
Raw clips, a screen recording, a podcast. Up to 60 minutes of footage, and you'll see your price right away.
1950 dinner etiquette, edited like a 2026 Short
Scroll through what the editor did, moment by moment. Switch to Raw any time to see the footage exactly as it was uploaded.
The brief it was given
“Turn this 1950 etiquette film into one punchy vertical short. Hook in the first 2 seconds, bold captions, punch-ins on the best lines.”
It opens on the line people stop for
The editor moved the film's most absurd advice, "the women of this family owe it to the men", from the middle to the very first second, with the title and RULE #1 already on screen. No slow intro to scroll past.
A punch-in on the word that matters
The frame pushes in 1.5× exactly on "attractive", so the joke lands without a single extra graphic.
Old footage, a format people know
Each new piece of advice gets a RULE sticker, one to six, turning a 1950 classroom film into a modern listicle.
Captions you don't have to check
Word-by-word captions, highlighted in yellow and kept clear of the app buttons. All 115 words were checked against a second, independent transcription of the audio.
Timing the punchline
On "as though they are genuinely glad to see him" the picture freezes, flashes white and slowly pushes in while a record scratch cuts the music dead.
An ending that loops
"Financial matters" hits with a coin sound, and the short flows straight back into its opening line, so it loops cleanly on replay.
Source: “A Date With Your Family” (1950), Prelinger Archives · Public domain
Raw in, finished out. Real samples.
1950 dinner etiquette, edited like a 2026 Short
“A Date With Your Family” (1950), Prelinger Archives · Public domain
A 1947 classroom film as a modern YouTube video
Four minutes of narration cut into a tight horizontal video with a title card, chapters and on-screen callouts.
“Shy Guy” (1947), Prelinger Archives · Public domain
Five travel clips, one reel cut to the beat
Travel clips from Mixkit · Mixkit free license
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.
Three ways to get a video edited.
| Editing it yourself | Hiring a freelancer | DoneCut | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the editing | You, in an editing app | A person you find and brief | Our AI editor |
| When you know the price | Your time is the cost | After you describe the job | The moment your files are added |
| Back-and-forth to start | None, but you learn the tool | Messages, calls, a brief | Drop files, write a note |
| See it before paying in full | — | Depends on the freelancer | Yes, a full watermarked preview |
| Changes | As many as you have time for | Depends on the agreement | Two rounds included |
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, real orders 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 and the finished video are yours. 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.