Short-form editing · Priced by quote · Human-checked cuts
Long-Form to Vertical Shorts Editing
You recorded the podcast, interview, stream, talk, or shop walkthrough—send us the link (up to 60 minutes) and we cut ready-to-post 9:16 1080×1920 Shorts that open on a hook, hold speakers steady in frame, play at streaming loudness, and ship with human-spell-checked .srt captions.
Exact technical deliverables on every Short
9:16 1080×1920 MP4
Each Short runs 30 to 55 seconds in H.264 + AAC MP4 format at full 1080×1920 vertical resolution—ready for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok.
Hook-scored & pause-trimmed
Candidate clips are scored by speech density, vocal energy, opening question/hook strength, and low dead air—then human-checked so every Short starts and ends on a clean speech pause, never mid-word.
Zero drifting pans or zooms
Each shot holds a locked, face-centered vertical crop for the entire shot. No artificial Ken Burns zooms, no wandering auto-tracker pans, and empty slates, logo cards, or faceless screenshares are skipped.
-14 LUFS / -1 dBTP audio
Integrated loudness is normalized to -14 LUFS with true peaks kept below -1 dBTP, so your voice plays evenly alongside major feed content without clipping or volume drops.
Spell-checked .srt sidecar
Every Short includes its own human-spell-checked .srt subtitle file. We keep your video frames clean and do not burn text into the picture unless you explicitly ask for burned-in captions.
3 title & caption hooks
Each delivered Short comes with 3 post-ready title or caption ideas written from the actual spoken moment, plus 1 revision round within 7 days of delivery.
Locked camera geometry · Single speaker vs. two speakers
Single-Speaker Shot
Steady face-centered 9:16 crop
When one person is on screen, the 1080×1920 vertical crop locks onto their face per shot and stays completely still—keeping natural eye-line presence without jittery reframing.
Two-Speaker Wide Shot
Stacked top/bottom 1080×960 split
When two hosts or guests sit side by side and cannot fit a single vertical crop, both stay in the Short: one speaker centered in the top 1080×960 half and the second held steady in the bottom 1080×960 half.
Standard Batch · Priced by Quote
3 Shorts from 1 Long Video
- Input: 1 downloadable video link up to 60 minutes
- Output: 3 vertical
1080×1920MP4 Shorts (30–55 s each), 3 human-checked.srtfiles, and 9 title/caption hooks - Target turnaround: 48 hours after confirmed brief · 1 revision round
Extended Batch · Priced by Quote
6 Shorts from 1 Long Video
- Input: 1 downloadable video link up to 60 minutes (ideal for full-hour podcasts or panels)
- Output: 6 vertical
1080×1920MP4 Shorts (30–55 s each), 6 human-checked.srtfiles, and 18 title/caption hooks - Target turnaround: 72 hours after confirmed brief · 1 revision round
How we cut & verify your Shorts
- Send your source video link (up to 60 minutes) along with batch size, speaker setup, any favorite or off-limits timestamps, and whether you prefer clean
.srtsidecars or burned-in captions. - Receive a fixed quote & turnaround window before any editing begins.
- Hook scoring, locked framing & audio leveling: we isolate the highest-signal 30–55 second moments, lock single or stacked
1080×960framing per shot, and normalize audio to-14 LUFS/-1 dBTP. - Two-person human review & delivery: captions are spell-checked by hand and a second reviewer watches every Short start-to-finish before delivery.
How We Make Them
AI-assisted tooling + human second reviewer
The NorthStar Prime team edits with AI-assisted tools for automatic speech transcription, hook scoring, and per-shot face detection—then a human editor checks clip boundaries and spelling, and a second human reviewer watches every finished Short before handoff.
Rights & Ownership
Your footage remains 100% yours
You must own the footage and any music in your source video or hold permission to repurpose them; we never add commercial copyrighted songs. You keep full ownership of your original video and every delivered Short. We never display client Shorts as public samples without your explicit opt-in.
Priced by quote
Request a Vertical Shorts editing quote
Email us a downloadable share link to your video (up to 60 minutes), how many Shorts you need, whether your footage is single-speaker or two-speaker, and whether you want clean .srt sidecar captions (default) or burned-in captions. We reply with scope, price, and delivery window before starting.
Optional extras you can attach to your brief: your existing transcript/caption file, favorite timestamps, or a transparent channel watermark PNG.