In January 2024, I made $3,930. That was my best month by far. But I hated every bit of it. I had 4 clients running at the same time. That was my max. And with every single one, I had zero certainty. I'd open the raw footage with no real plan, cut what felt right in the moment, throw some graphics on, and pray the client would accept the video. Some weeks it worked out okay. A lot of weeks it didn't. But drowning in revisions wasn't even the worst part. The worst part was this: The 10th video for the client wasn't much better & faster than the 1st. Every new video felt like starting from scratch. Then, one of my client's lead editor mentioned something that would change my career forever: "Yeah, usually before starting on the video, I plan it out first. Like label all the footage and add structure." (see pic 1) I didn't think much of it, but decided to give it a try. I'll be honest – at first, it wasn't a complete game changer. But I finally had something that worked, so I started building upon it... Every video started being a bit better than the last, not because I got smarter overnight, but because I wasn't starting from zero. I wasn't reinventing my process every Monday morning. I was sharpening an existing one. Videos that used to take a full week started taking five days, then three... All while getting better. Before this, I thought speed and quality were a trade-off. Turns out, that's only true when you don't have a system. A few months later, I got my first zero-revision video. That doubled my rate $1k → $2k per vid. And a few months later I hit my first $10k month. But the real win wasn't even the money. It's that I was building something long-term, something that actually compounded, client after client, video after video. I still use that exact workflow today for every video, 3 years later. And it's the first thing I help every editor who joins FTE set up (see pics 2 and 3) Because it's the difference between a $3,930 month that burns you out and a $10k month that doesn't.

Thank you, Artem! That video was pretty tough but this experience is for sure one of the best

Quick one for the community – I'm looking for an editor to work on my own youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@editorartem). Requirements: - Existing client work experience - Gotta be able to do this style: https://youtu.be/4AFTZK6tgug?si=JYw4JvxSKa_SFsAv Your benefits: - Work directly with me, you'll learn a lot from revisions - Consistent work 🚨 If you're interested: → Comment below with a link to your best edit closest to the style I linked above Not a portfolio link, not three links of random edits, but ONE LINK of your best edit closest to the style I linked above 📩 I'll reach out to those whose edit I like, and we'll talk about your rates & availability in the DMs

1️⃣ If you're new here, drop a comment below and introduce yourself: - Name 🙋‍♂️ - Where you're from 📍 - How long you've been editing 👨‍💻 - What's your biggest challenge right now 🎯 2️⃣ Watch this Loom to get an idea of how FTE works 3️⃣ Check out Creative Director Shift™ 🧑‍🎨 It's a free training inside the Classroom tab and most editors say it completely changes how they think about their career... Excited for your journey here at FTE 🙌 – Artem

On the first video for a client, you won't be your best (no matter how hard you try) But $5K editors learned to compound their edits: 📈 Quality goes up 📉 Turnaround time goes down ✅ With every single video How do they do it? By not starting from scratch every time I call this system a Base Folder 📁 → It's a home for every asset that works for this specific client Here's how I have it set up... On my editing drive, I have a [Client Name] folder, that has two things: 1️⃣ Video-specific folders [Client Name] > [01_Video Title] [Client Name] > [02_Video Title] ...and so on 2️⃣ A Base Folder – where the magic happens [Client Name] > Base → SFX → PNGs → Music → B-rolls (labelled) → Memes → MOGRTs → Overlays → Backgrounds → Client story archive EVERY reusable asset that fits this client goes here (pic 1) Last Thursday, we've built a bunch of Base Folders on our Weekly Masterclass inside the paid FTE community (pic 2) P.S. If you're curious to learn more about the paid program, and how we scale to $5K/month on 4 hours of editing a day – comment BASE down below, and I'll reach out 📩