How are your Instagram videos edited—do you edit them yourself or outsource, and if outsourced, how did you find your editor?
I have an editor for Instagram whom I found after making an offhand comment about an anime I was watching in a YouTube video. He reached out, offering to help grow my page, mentioning his love for anime and that he runs a big anime community. I appreciated his candid, value‑focused outreach and took him up on it. We've had a great relationship, and he's been helping me a lot with Instagram.
Yeah, I outsource the editing of my videos. For my Instagram channel, I work with Shu, who manages it completely. He gives me scripts that we assemble using newsletters and some scraping systems, I record them on a teleprompter, and he handles publishing, editing, and captions. His work has driven massive virality—recent videos got 490K and 336K views. On my main YouTube channel, I’ve worked with editor Johan for over 30 videos. He trims obvious imperfections and tangents, adds a high‑quality intro with assets or effects, and handles publishing. The TLDR: get someone to help with publishing, because it used to take a lot of my time. Aside from that, the daily updates channel is basically it for my workflow. Pretty cool, huh?
He works with a single editor. He spends about ten minutes a week recording a batch of shorts, then the editor assembles them. They gather AI news from multiple sources, filter out low-value content, and the editor writes scripts from the valuable material. He reviews and tweaks the scripts, puts them in a Google Doc, imports them into a teleprompter, and records lines like 'You don't need ChatGPT anymore. Wait for blank.' He gives the footage to his editor, who uses a simple top/bottom template to create the videos. They're bringing on additional team members to help the editor avoid bottlenecks. The editor then produces videos showing the tools in action, they spend a little money to sign up to the platforms, and publish on Instagram, aiming for one short per day.
I don't do my Instagram/TikTok videos myself. I record a big batch of scripts in one sitting and hand them off to an editor who takes care of everything, including things like the screen-share segments.
You can get all the assets for our videos in our community. Just go to the links section and you'll find a bunch of editing assets for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and other tools.