FAQs

Most of what goes wrong with an outside editor isn't talent. It's a price that moves, a revision loop with no defined end, and silence when something breaks. All three are experience problems, and our extensive experience has solved them.

With Cutpoint Studio, the price is fixed per finished minute and quoted before anything starts. Two passes of revisions are included for every deliverable. And if we can't proceed, you hear it with a list of exactly what's missing.

Cancel before work begins and you're refunded in full; cancel after and you're capped at what you've already paid.

Sometimes. If you're publishing near-daily, need deep product context in every cut, or want same-day turns on demand, a staff editor earns their seat.

Below that line you're carrying a salary through slow months, plus software, storage, hardware, and someone's time managing it.

A retainer gives you the reserved capacity without the headcount: commit finished minutes for a term, get one rate for every deliverable whatever its length, and pay less per minute as the commitment grows.

No recruiting, no ramp, no bench.

Every project is quoted before it starts. Runtime, scope, and how fast you need it all move the number, so a single price on a page would be a guess.

Projects start at $345. Tell us what you're making and when you need it and you'll get a fixed price — not an estimate that drifts once we're underway.

Yes. Commit a number of finished minutes per term — monthly or longer — and we reserve the capacity, at one rate for every deliverable whatever its length. We'll size it to what you actually publish.

On your first project with us, you can walk away. If the first draft is so far off the brief that revising it would be pointless, say so within your review window and we'll refund 75% of the project fee. You don't have to justify the call. It's yours to make.

Rejecting it means giving up both revision rounds and any right to the cut. We'd rather refund you than walk a bad edit through two rounds of notes and hope it turns.

Two hours per finished minute is included, which covers most shoots. Beyond that it's an additional fee per hour, and it extends delivery by a day per five hours.

If you send selects or a paper edit, the overage charge is waived entirely — you've already done the work it pays for.

Twenty years in Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and Photoshop. Ten in Final Cut Pro and Motion, and ten in DaVinci Resolve.

We pick per-project rather than per habit. Resolve is where the grade carries the piece, After Effects where the motion does, Premiere or Final Cut where the story is in the assembly. Most projects touch more than one.

Not as a rule, and the reason is the answer above. A finished piece is usually assembled in one application, graded in a second, and comped in a third. There's no single project file that contains it. You'd get three that don't open each other's work, plus references to fonts, plugins and stock we hold under non-transferable licences.

If project files are a deliverable you need, tell us before we start. Knowing that up front changes how we build: we can plan the job around a handover, keep as much as possible in one application, and licence fonts, stock and assets so they can travel with the project. It does mean the work is built in our software of choice, and you'll need to be set up to open it. Handover of this kind is scoped and quoted with the job, not added afterwards.

By default, what we deliver is the finished master and any versions or clean elements you order. Re-edits, cutdowns and new versions are quoted separately.

Your own footage stays yours. It's only our working files that don't travel.

Two options, chosen when you accept the quote. Pay in full before we start, or split it — half up front, half at day 30 — for 5% on top.

Payment comes before work does. It's how the slot gets reserved, and it's why the price you're quoted is the price you pay. Retainers bill at the start of each month.

Cancel before we start and you're refunded in full. Cancel after we've started and you're charged for hours worked plus a 25% fee, capped at what you've already paid — never more.