Freelance Video Editor, Motion Designer
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Freelance video editor and motion designer creating social, advertising, corporate, and animated content. Supporting SMEs with platform-optimized storytelling and performance creatives.
Responsibilities:
- Edit videos from raw footage, scripts or creative briefs
- Structure content to create clear and engaging storytelling
- Select footage, cut, edit and perform color correction
- Work on pacing, transitions and overall visual presentation
- Integrate music, sound effects, voice-overs and other audio elements
- Perform corrections and finishing work to deliver professional-quality content
- Create content for Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn and Facebook
- Repurpose long-form videos into multiple short-form assets
- Add subtitles, animations, visual hooks and calls to action
- Adapt videos to the formats, durations and creative codes of each platform
- Produce video creatives for Meta Ads, Google Ads and other digital advertising platforms
- Create multiple creative variations from the same source content
- Collaborate with Paid Media specialists to produce assets aligned with acquisition objectives
- Test different hooks, pacing, messages and formats
- Adapt creatives based on campaign performance and insights
- Create graphic animations and motion design content
- Animate logos, text, icons, illustrations and brand elements
- Produce explainer videos and animations to present products or services
- Integrate branding elements and follow each client's visual identity guidelines
- Create reusable video templates when relevant
- Edit interviews, customer testimonials and corporate videos
- Produce company, product and service presentation videos
- Create video content for websites, presentations, events and marketing campaigns
- Adapt key content into multiple versions for different distribution channels
- Use AI tools when relevant to accelerate production workflows and enhance the creative process
- Explore emerging AI-powered video generation and editing tools
- Stay up to date with trends in video production, social media and motion design
- Proactively suggest new formats, concepts and creative approaches for clients
Requirements:
- Solid and demonstrable experience in video editing and/or motion design, ideally within an agency environment or working with multiple clients
- Excellent command of editing, storytelling, pacing and post-production
- Strong command of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects
- Knowledge of DaVinci Resolve is a plus
- Strong understanding of text, shape, logo and graphic element animation
- Excellent understanding of the formats and creative codes of TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn and Facebook
- Good understanding of video creation principles for digital advertising and performance marketing campaigns
- Ability to work with voice-overs, music and sound effects to deliver professional-quality content
- Ability to follow and adapt brand identities across video productions
- Good understanding of emerging AI tools for video creation and editing
- Excellent ability to manage multiple clients and projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines
- Creative, autonomous, rigorous, detail-oriented and comfortable collaborating with other specialists
- A strong showreel or portfolio showcasing different types of video and motion design projects is required
Benefits:
- 100% Remote
- Fixed-price projects or day-rate assignments depending on the project
- Freelance / Independent Contractor status
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