Video Editing

video editor for creators and education businesses

I cut your videos - and you never have to check on me.

long-form and short-form. courses, YouTube, podcasts, reels, talking head. four years as lead editor inside a 1M-subscriber creator's operation - one client at a time, long-term.

two things I do - click either to jump
LONG-FORM·SHORT-FORM

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You've done this before, haven't you

hire an editor. spend three weeks explaining the brand. two great cuts. then the drift, then the silence, then the hiring post again.

  • Explaining your brand from scratch for the fourth time this year
  • Watching every cut end to end because you can't trust it's right
  • Quality that quietly slips once the first month is over
  • Post is your bottleneck, so publishing slips with it

the problem was never that editors can't cut. it's that almost nobody stays long enough to get good at your brand. so I take one client at a time and I stay - you brief once, and by month two I'm making the calls you'd have made.

Niklas on working with me

four years inside his operation. in his words.

"I was always the person who looked over everybody's shoulder. With Patrick, I never had to."
Niklas Christl
Niklas ChristlYouTuber · 1M subscribers · Founder of Story Hero Academy

01 / long-form

Courses, YouTube and podcasts

structure, pacing, colour and sound - cut so people actually finish watching. four years of it at Story Hero Academy: 91 lessons, a $400K launch, and a founder who stopped checking my work.

  • Course modules and lesson libraries
  • Educational YouTube, scripted or talking head
  • Podcast episodes, full-length
  • Motion graphics and animation on brand
  • Colour grading and sound design included
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02 / short-form

Reels, talking head and cinematic

original pieces built to hold attention, not captions slapped on a clip. most of the work below is from my own channel - shot, cut, graded and sound-designed by me, so the numbers are mine rather than shared credit.

  • Trending formats rebuilt in your brand
  • Split-screen and talking head
  • Cinematic, b-roll led pieces
  • Custom motion and animated text
  • Ads and hook testing
  • Repurposing from long-form
screenshots from Instagram insights

and it isn't luck. skip rate is the share of viewers who leave inside the first three seconds - averaged across every reel I posted in six months, while I deliberately changed how I build openings. 28% held past three seconds in March, 46% in August.

50%40% 30%20% MarAprMay JunJulAug 28%46%

Monthly average across 126 reels, March-August 2026 · Source: Instagram insights · more on my Instagram

And I'm organised about it

folder structures, file naming, documented workflows, trackers and content calendars - built once, then everything runs through them. you never have to ask where something is or what's coming next.

inside the systems

Project Structure

consistent folders, naming and bin structure on every project. hand it to anyone and they'd find their way around it in a minute.

Documented Workflow

SOPs and editing guidelines written down, not carried in my head. it's how I briefed a team of five and kept the look consistent.

AI Where It Saves Hours

Claude Design turns your design system into on-brand graphics and animations in an afternoon. Claude Code writes my own tooling - batch processing, asset pipelines, automation.

Where I Don't Use It

story, pacing, colour and sound stay human. AI speeds up the work around the edit, never the judgment inside it.

From collaborators and clients

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who you'd be working with

Four years of running post for creators

I'm Patrick. German, based in Chiang Mai. for four years I was the person running post inside Story Hero Academy - Niklas Christl's education business - producing 91 course lessons, managing a team of five editors and animators, and building the systems the whole operation ran on through a launch that did $400K in two weeks.

alongside that I shoot and cut my own films, run event work for Flow31, and built my own channel to 14K - which is where the retention numbers further up came from. colour grading is the part I love most. the ear for sound came from a decade as a professional musician before any of this.

I'm not trying to build an agency. I want one long relationship where the work compounds.

Patrick Putzker
Patrick Putzker filming on location

One retainer slot open

long-form, short-form or both. if you're publishing weekly and tired of the hiring cycle, that's the conversation.

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How it works

  • Retainermonthly, from $2,500. long-form, short-form or both - we agree the volume upfront so you know exactly what you're getting.
  • Scopea set number of videos per month, agreed before we start. two rounds of revisions per video. extra volume gets quoted, never silently absorbed or silently dropped.
  • Includedcolour grading, sound design and motion graphics when I'm cutting. not billed as extras.
  • Turnaround48 hours on short-form once footage and copy are in. long-form scoped before we start.
  • One Contactme. no agency layer, no account manager, no chasing three people for an answer.
  • RemoteChiang Mai based, invoiced through a US LLC. no international friction, and I flex to your timezone.
  • Capacityone retainer client at a time. when the slot is filled, this page comes down.

Month to month, no lock-in

you pay monthly, in advance, and you can stop at the end of any month. no six-month contract, no minimum term, no notice period.

so the first month is a paid month like any other - you just aren't committed to a second one until you've seen the work. if it isn't right, you stop and you've paid only for what you got. I'd rather earn the next month than lock you into five.

What you're probably thinking

My last editor disappeared on me.

I know. that's why there's a video near the top of a creator with a million subscribers saying he never had to check my work. four years, same operation, 91 lessons. I'm not looking for a project - I'm looking for the seat I had before.

You'll make my content look like your content.

the reels are my own aesthetic. almost nothing I've been paid for looks like them - the Story Hero library and its brand channel were built entirely to Niklas's brand, his voice and his motion treatments. give me a design system and I work inside it.

I can get edits for $50 on Fiverr.

you can, and for straight repurposing that's a reasonable call. what you're buying here is someone who understands why a hook holds, who doesn't need managing, and who's still there in month twelve. if cheapest-per-clip is the goal, I'm the wrong hire.

I don't publish enough to justify a retainer.

say so on the call and I'll tell you straight. under roughly four videos a month a retainer isn't worth it for you. I'd rather point you elsewhere than take one you don't need.

Before you book

What do you need from me to start?

raw footage, any copy or script, and a couple of examples of edits you like. if you have a brand or design system, send it. that's the whole onboarding.

How do revisions work?

two rounds per video, inside the scope we agree upfront. that's deliberate - unlimited revisions sound generous and end up meaning nobody commits to a direction. in practice it drops to almost none by month two.

What if I need more videos one month?

we quote the extra volume for that month. I'd rather flex than have you go find a second editor.

What software do you work in?

Premiere Pro and After Effects, DaVinci for colour, Dehancer for film emulation. I'll work inside your existing project structure and file workflow rather than making you learn mine.

Can you do only short-form, or only long-form?

either. plenty of people need one and not the other. we scope whichever you actually publish.

Do you sign contracts and NDAs?

yes to both. everything runs through SoulFrame LLC, my US company.

What if you get busy with another client?

I won't. one retainer client at a time is the entire model, and it's why the turnaround is what it is.

Still scrolling?

then post is probably costing you more than you'd like to admit. book 30 minutes and tell me what you're publishing and how often. if I'm not the right fit I'll say so on the call, and I'll usually know who is.

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