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Your video editor can make magic, but bad cover text gets zero clicks. Optimize yours:
🔥 Keep text under 4 high-impact words
🔥 Use high-contrast bold fonts for readability
🔥 Match cover promises directly to frame 1
First impressions dictate click-through rate. Grab attention on the feed first, then deliver the value inside.
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You’ve got to be kidding me with some of the scope of work to price on production job postings I’ve seen. I think fiverr and upwork have been so detrimental to clients living in reality about pricing high quality creative work that you see absolute highway robbery budgets for a shit ton of work.
Client: 20-40 short form edits a month (references are all super detailed edit work + motion gfx) and they want the average price of a video to be sub $100.
This isn’t the 1950s anymore ladies and gents where you’re filling a grocery cart for $15.
This is where Contra stands above every other job board platform because despite seeing some postings on here that are living in lalaland, it’s not fiverr where you actually have the majority of jobs being outsourced for literal dollars and driving down what the work is worth industry wide.
Either way though, you get what you pay for and there’s nobody doing work for these prices outputting consistent great quality which is why you see these same clients with ridiculous turnover and always looking for new editors
Some people are wild out there
Another recent edit with Splice that I had a lot of fun with. I loved creating this lofi vibe by combining 4k footage with vintage Sony Handycam b-roll. 🖤
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I challenged myself to create an AI-generated automotive commercial that feels like something a real car brand would release, not just another AI video.
The goal was to combine cinematic storytelling, a realistic AI presenter, smooth motion graphics and premium editing to create a commercial that puts the product first.
Highlights:
🚀 Realistic AI presenter with natural lip sync
🚀Cinematic camera movements and smooth transitions
🚀Clean premium motion graphics
🚀Commercial quality colour grading
🚀Storytelling with a strong marketing focus
This is the kind of work I enjoy creating. Polished AI-powered commercials that help products stand out and capture attention. My goal is to create ads that people remember because of the story and the product, not because they were made with AI.
I'll love to hear what you think.
#AIVideo #AICommercial #Automotive #ExplainerVideo #CommercialProduction #MotionGraphics #VideoEditing #CreativeDirection #Storytelling #ProductMarketing #BrandAdvertising #GenerativeAI #ContentCreation #Cinematic video
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