I cut short-form for YouTube in DaVinci Resolve. On my own channel, 19 of the 20 Shorts currently listed cleared 10,000 views, and the one in the middle sits at 30,000. That is the whole channel, not a showreel of the best three.
What actually happens between the raw file and the upload
The proof
A best-of reel proves nothing. Anyone can cut three good videos. What a channel cannot fake is the shape of its whole distribution, so this is all twenty Shorts YouTube currently lists on the channel, including the one that got forty views.
Source: the public @subspeedy videos page, read on 9 September 2026. YouTube rounds public view counts, so 30,000 means "30K as displayed". Subscriber count and video count are read from the same page. Separately, the channel’s private YouTube Studio dashboard reported 1.1M views and 2.9K watch-hours for 2025; that figure is not publicly verifiable, which is why the numbers above are used instead.
How it is made
Everything on this page was cut in DaVinci Resolve. Not because the tool is the skill, but because a vertical video that has to survive the first second needs edit, grade, audio and titles to agree with each other, and Resolve keeps all four in the same project.
A Short is judged before it is watched. The opening frame gets built first and the rest is cut backwards from it, which is why the weak uploads on the chart are weak at the start and not in the middle. Anything that does not hold tension comes out, even when it is the funnier take.
Source clips arrive heavily compressed and flat. The node tree balances that back before any look goes on top: contrast recovered, skin tone corrected, then one grade reused across the series so separate uploads read as one channel instead of twenty unrelated clips.
Half of short-form retention is audio. Levels are normalised so a Short does not arrive quieter than whatever played before it in the feed, impacts are synced hard to the cut, and the low end is mixed for a phone speaker rather than for headphones.
Titles are built in Fusion instead of dropped in as presets, so they can track the subject rather than sit on top of it. On a vertical screen every word competes with the face, so the rule is few words, high contrast, gone before they are re-read.
The work
Click any one to play it here. These are the same twenty videos plotted in the chart above, in the same order, with the view count YouTube shows on each.
The channel publishes edits of IShowSpeed stream footage. Clips belong to their original creators; the edit, grade, sound and titles are mine.
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There is no agency behind this and no booking form to fill in. If you run a channel and want an editor who treats the median upload as the job rather than the highlight, send the raw file and what you want it to do.