u/Larry_33

I keep seeing people in here mention that editing eats their week, and honestly same. I tracked it last month and a 4-minute video took me almost 6 hours from raw footage to upload.

What kills me isn't even the creative cutting, it's the stuff around it. Captions, resizing for shorts, re-exporting because I missed something. The actual "making the video good" part feels like maybe a third of the time.

Curious where everyone else lands:

• What's your rough ratio (hours of editing per minute of final video)?
• And what's the specific part that drags the most for you?

Trying to figure out if I'm just slow or if this is universal.

Hi everyone,

Just to be clear from the start: I’m not trying to sell anything here. I’m still in a very early stage and mainly looking for honest feedback from small creators.

I started building this because, from my own experience and from a lot of conversations with other smaller creators, it feels like the creative part of content creation is usually the fun part, but the non-creative side can get frustrating pretty quickly when you’re doing everything yourself.

Things like editing, captioning, resizing, and just generally dealing with the more repetitive or annoying parts of the workflow can end up taking a lot of time and energy, especially when you’re still small and not in a position to outsource any of it.

At the moment, the tool is centered around a simple video editor with features like captions, resizing, and some early ideas around making feedback and collaboration easier too.

I’m not posting this to promote or sell it. I just want honest opinions from people who are actually in that stage and know what these frustrations feel like.

If anyone here would be up for trying it out and telling me honestly what’s useful, what’s confusing, what feels missing, etc., send me a DM.

That would genuinely help a lot.