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Short-form editor: gaming clips and product ads. 48-hour delivery, US Eastern hours.

Content Strategy
Shorts / Reels / TikToks
Video Editing

Description

I edit short-form video in two lanes that don't usually come together:
gaming capture and product ads. Most editors do one or the other. Doing
both means I bring ad thinking — hook rate, retention, why someone stops
scrolling — into gaming content, and gaming pacing into ads.

What I actually obsess over is the first three seconds. A short doesn't
fail at the end, it fails at the start, so that's where most of my edit
time goes: the cut, the caption, the sound, the reason to stay.

I'm self-taught in Capcut and I've been working freelance since
2025.

Two things you can count on. I deliver in 48 hours, and I don't disappear
after the first payment. I'm based in Venezuela, which is US Eastern time,
so I'm online during your working day — not twelve hours behind it.

If you want to see how I'd handle your content specifically, I'll cut you
a 60-second test before you commit to anything.

Portfolio:

  • Book Launch — Creator Channel Edit

    about 2 months ago • 200 views

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    Ignacio Martínez

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    "Just Remember" — book launch video for a creator channel (9:16)

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    A 53-second vertical for a creator launching his book.

    Long verticals fail for one reason: the frame stops moving and
    the viewer leaves. So the whole edit is built against that. The
    shot is reframed constantly — wide, medium, close, and back —
    off a single source, so the composition never sits still long
    enough to feel static. Cuts land on the ends of sentences and
    eat every pause, so there's no dead air to scroll away from.

    The book is used as punctuation rather than product footage:
    hands turning pages, the cover, the author spread, cut in at the
    moments the delivery slows, which is exactly where attention
    would otherwise drop.

    Captions carry the retention load — word-by-word reveals that
    give the eye a reason to stay on frame even during pure talking
    head, and that keep the video working on mute.

    Delivered in 9:16, 53 seconds.
  • Breast Pump — Direct Response Ad

    about 2 months ago • 1 views

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    Ignacio Martínez

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    Breast pump — direct-response ad for a dropshipping store (9:16)

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    A direct-response ad for an electric breast pump sold through a
    Colombian dropshipping store.

    The decision that shaped everything: no product for the first
    eight seconds. This isn't an impulse buy, it's a relief buy —
    nobody wants a breast pump, they want the problem to stop. So the
    piece spends its whole first half on the problem and only then
    offers the answer.

    The problem is shown, not stated. A clock reading 4:41 in warm
    tungsten light does more than any line about exhaustion could,
    and the specific number makes it feel lived rather than staged.
    The copy is written for one audience and no one else — "el pecho
    lleno no espera" only lands if you've been there, which is exactly
    who it's for.

    The product section translates specs into outcome: four modes and
    nine levels becomes "se ajusta hasta que deja de doler." And it
    closes on the objection that actually blocks Colombian ecommerce —
    payment on delivery.

    The grade carries the arc too: warm, dim and soft through the
    problem, clean and bright once the product arrives.

    Delivered in 9:16, 15 seconds.
  • Hardline Co. — Streetwear Brand Spot

    about 2 months ago • 0 views

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    Ignacio Martínez

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    Hardline Co. — brand spot for a streetwear drop (9:16)

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    A brand spot for Hardline Co., a streetwear label launching
    new stock.

    The brief could have been a product video, but streetwear
    doesn't sell on features — it sells on who you become wearing
    it. So I built the piece around an identity line instead of a
    product claim: "Hardline es para los que empezaron desde abajo,"
    laid over a shot from behind. No face, so the viewer puts
    themselves in it.

    From there the piece moves outward rather than closer: the
    person → the full collection → the party the clothes actually
    belong to → the drop. The garments are never the subject, the
    scene is.

    Technically, the four sources looked nothing alike — daylight
    street, dark flat-lay, tungsten interior, rooftop sky. A
    consistent grain and grade holds them together, and a pixel
    transition bridges the hardest cut, from daylight into the
    warm interior, where a straight cut would have clashed.

    Delivered in 9:16, 15 seconds.
  • Bycleo Store — Product Ad

    about 2 months ago • 142 views

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    Ignacio Martínez

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    Product ad for a cap store — 9:16

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    A product ad for Bycleo Store, a cap brand that needed
    something dynamic for social.

    Two decisions drove the edit. I opened on a macro shot of the
    embroidery instead of the full cap — you can't tell what you're
    looking at yet, so you stay to find out, and the hook has already
    done its job by the time the product reveals itself.

    Then I kept the whole piece in greyscale — black cap, white panel,
    grey backdrop — so the only saturated colour on screen is the text.
    The offer and the CTA end up being the only things your eye can
    land on.

    Structure: hook on texture → full turntable, including the back
    closure a buyer actually wants to see → macro detail → worn on a
    silhouette → scarcity CTA.

    Delivered in 9:16, 8 seconds.
  • Cap Store — Promo Offer Ad

    about 2 months ago • 117 views

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    Ignacio Martínez

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    Cap store — promo offer ad (9:16)

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    A direct-response promo ad for a cap store running a limited
    2-for-$40 / 3-for-$60 offer.

    The structural decision here was to make the offer permanent
    rather than a payoff. Most promo videos save the price for the
    end, which only works if someone watches to the end. Instead I
    locked the offer to the top of the frame from the moment it
    appears and kept the delivery line at the bottom, so the product
    carousel rotates underneath a message that never leaves. Someone
    who lands mid-scroll still gets the full offer.

    The rest follows a direct-response order: hook on the new drop →
    value line, revealed word by word to hold attention → the offer →
    the objection nobody addresses (delivery coverage, local and
    national) → a specific closing date, 15/06 to 22/06, because a
    real deadline converts better than "limited time".

    Delivered in 9:16, 21 seconds.