
Retention Editing: Winning the First 30 Seconds
The opening of a video decides the rest of it. Here is the exact hook structure we cut for creator channels, frame by frame.
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The opening of a video decides the rest of it. Here is the exact hook structure we cut for creator channels, frame by frame.

Title, thumbnail and first frame work as one unit. This is the packaging loop we run before a single clip gets cut.

Most AI editing tools are demos. These five made it into our production pipeline and stayed there.

Motion graphics should carry meaning. A practical guide to timing, easing and restraint in on-screen text.

A-cam, phone b-roll and stock in one timeline. Here is the node order we use to make it feel like one shoot.

Nine months, 74 videos and one editing system. The full breakdown of what moved the numbers.