Jayden · Long-form editor · Liechtenstein
Cut
Long-form YouTube videos, edited by hand in DaVinci Resolve. You film, I cut.
Hook
Minute one decides who stays for minute twelve. I learned openings on Shorts: my channel’s median is 29,647 views.
Resolve
Edit, grade, sound and titles in one timeline. No preset packs.
What I do
Send the raw footage of your next video and get a finished long-form edit back, ready to upload. It is for creators who post every week and would rather spend those two days on the next idea than on the timeline.
Retakes, dead air and the tangent that goes nowhere come out. What stays is put in an order where every section earns the next one.
Built first. The promise from your title and thumbnail gets paid off early, because that is where most viewers decide to stay or leave.
B-roll, zooms, on-screen text and sound cues go where attention drops, so minute nine holds as well as minute one.
Voice cleaned and levelled to YouTube loudness, music tucked under speech, and one grade across every source, so camera, screen recording and gameplay look like one video.
How we start
Off camera
I don't like being watched. I like deciding what gets watched: the four frames that make a joke land, the cut that makes a twelve-minute explanation feel like six, an impact synced to a beat nobody else heard. That part doesn't feel like work, which is the whole reason I would rather cut your videos than film my own.
Every decision: which take stays, where the tension sits, what gets cut, how it sounds. That is the edit, and it stays mine.
The repetitive work runs on tools I built myself: silence removal, rough assembly, captions, data graphics. Building tools like that is the other thing I’m good at.
That split is the point. Your first cut arrives sooner, and every hour the tools save goes into the parts viewers actually notice.
What actually happens between the raw file and the upload
The proof
A long video is won or lost in its opening, and nothing trains an opening like a Short, where the first second is the whole job. Client long-form has no public view counts to show yet, so here is the part that does: 28 of the 29 Shorts on my own channel, together past one million views. The one left out got forty. A best-of reel proves nothing; the shape of the whole distribution does.
Source: the public @subspeedy Shorts page, with the exact view count of each video read from its own page on 19 September 2026. Chart and totals cover 28 of the channel’s 29 Shorts; the one left out has 40 views. Subscriber count and video count are read from the same channel page.
How it is made
Every edit is done in DaVinci Resolve. Not because the tool is the skill, but because a video that has to hold someone for fifteen minutes needs edit, grade, audio and titles to agree with each other, and Resolve keeps all four in the same project.
The first minute gets built first and the rest is cut towards the payoff. Retakes and filler come out, sections get reordered when the point lands better earlier, and anything that does not move the video forward goes, even the good tangent. A long edit gives you more places to lose someone, so each one gets checked.
Face camera, screen recording and gameplay rarely match. The node tree balances each source first, then one grade goes across the whole video, and the same grade carries into the next upload so the channel looks like one thing.
Half of retention is audio. Room noise and echo come down, the voice is levelled to YouTube loudness so you never arrive quieter than the video before, music ducks under speech, and sound effects mark a cut instead of covering it.
Callouts, chapter cards, charts and maps are built for the video, in Fusion or rendered from code, instead of dropped in as presets, so they point at what you are talking about rather than sit on top of it. Few words, high contrast, gone before they are read twice.
The work
Click any one to play it here. These are the same 28 videos plotted in the chart above, in the same order, with the view count each one has today. The long-form sample that tells you most is the one cut from your own footage: the first minute of one of your videos, free.
The channel publishes edits of IShowSpeed stream footage. Clips belong to their original creators; the edit, grade, sound and titles are mine.
Open the channel ↗Not a Short
Every Short above is cut to survive one second. This one takes its time and works the other way: slow dissolves, real film grain, a typewriter card for every line, a sound mix doing half the talking. That patience is what a long video needs between its hooks. It's the launch film for the company behind this page, about AI and cut without any.
Contact
No agency, no booking form. Send me a link to one of your videos and I will re-edit its first minute for free. If you like it, the raw files of your next one are all I need.