Long-form in. Short-form out.
Every video you publish has three or four moments that would hold a stranger's attention on their own. Finding them means watching the whole thing. Cutting them properly takes an editor who does nothing else. We do both.
Sample edits, cut from Creative Commons videos.
The moment: her breakdown of the three types of people who build authority on LinkedIn. Reframed to vertical around her, with key words picked out in the channel’s own teal.
From "How to Grow Your LinkedIn SO Fast in 2026 It Feels ILLEGAL" by Diandra Escobar · CC BY
Watch the original ↗The moment: the difference between a chatbot and an AI agent. Cut tight between her explanation and the video’s own diagrams, reframed so each diagram reads clearly on a phone.
From "Build Your First AI Agent in 10 Minutes — No Coding" by The Tech Girl · CC BY
Watch the original ↗The moment: the $50 root canal that set off a business, lifted out of a 1 hour 46 minute interview. Cut between the three camera angles so it stays on whoever is talking.
From "Billionaire’s Horrifying Real Estate Prediction for 2027" by Ryan Pineda · CC BY
Watch the original ↗The moment: a live drill on cutting filler words. Opens on an on-screen question as the hook, with callouts as the exchange plays out.
From "Sales Training // Complete Face to Face Sales Training" by Andy Elliott · CC BY
Watch the original ↗The moment: her take on companies bolting “AI” onto features nobody asked for. The side-by-side stage shot restacked into slide above, speaker below.
From "Head of Growth at Lovable | Why Growth Playbooks Are Crumbling—and What’s Next" by Product School · CC BY
Watch the original ↗The moment: the profit formula behind an all-inclusive resort — it sells you seven nights, then counts on what you never take. Cut out of a 20-minute animated explainer as a single idea that stands on its own.
From "How All-Inclusive Resorts Make Money" by Tony Talks Business · CC BY
Watch the original ↗What we do
You send a podcast, a webinar, a recorded talk or a long YouTube upload. We watch all of it, pick the moments that make sense without the rest of the episode around them, and turn each one into a clip built for Shorts, Reels, TikTok and LinkedIn.
Every clip is chosen, cut, captioned and checked before it reaches you. You get finished files, ready to post, in vertical and square.
Named, numbered and ordered by which we would post first. The files are yours outright.
Next up
Scheduling, posting, captions and a monthly report across your channels, so the clips go out on a steady rhythm without anyone on your side touching them.
Automations for the repetitive work in a small business: lead follow-ups, enquiry routing, turning transcripts into briefs, and reports that build themselves.
Fast, clean, mobile-first websites, designed and built for you and simple enough to update yourself.
Our standard
Before anything is sent to you, it goes through the same checklist. If a clip fails any part of it, it goes back to the editor.
The opening second gives a reason to keep watching. No clip starts on a pause, an intro or a half-formed sentence.
Someone who has never heard of your show should understand it. If a clip needs the rest of the episode to follow, it is the wrong moment.
The payoff lands early, and the clip ends when the point is made. No trailing silence, no outro card.
Most people scroll muted. Captions are accurate, easy to read and never cover the speaker's face.
Audio levelled to platform loudness, background noise reduced, and no jump in volume between speakers.
Correct size for each platform, nothing cut off at the edges, and a file that uploads first time.
How it works
Clipping your own episodes means rewatching hours of footage, briefing editors, chasing drafts and fixing captions. It is why so many channels post shorts for a few weeks and then stop. We take the whole job off your plate.
Six clips from one or two of your episodes. Enough to judge the quality, the turnaround and how we work together before you commit to anything monthly.
Not a transcript skim, not an automated pick. We watch start to finish and choose the moments that make sense on their own. You get the timestamps and a one-line reason for each, and strike out anything you would rather leave alone.
A first version within 24–36 hours for your notes, the final clip within 48. Captioned, sized for Shorts, Reels, TikTok and LinkedIn, titled and ready to post. Nothing to chase.
Drop each new episode in a shared folder and the same thing happens again, so your shorts keep going out long after most channels stop. One point of contact throughout, and volume moves up or down with a message.
Pricing
Choose how many clips you need each month. The more you take, the less each clip costs. No contracts, cancel any time.
A real sample of working with us. Six finished clips from one or two of your episodes, delivered in two batches across two weeks, with the same process and standard as every plan.
One episode a week
$75 a clip · extra clips at $75
Start with a pilot →Two episodes a week, posting daily
$67 a clip · extra clips at $70
Book a call →Daily across every channel
$64 a clip · extra clips at $65
Talk volume →For agencies and studios
Short-form editing for agencies and production studios, delivered under your brand. You stay the client's only contact and we never appear anywhere in the chain.
Who you are dealing with
I spent four years at a global consultancy, coordinating large projects for international clients. Most of that job was making sure the right people were working on the right thing, to a clear brief, and that nothing reached the client until it was right.
The Manifold Collective runs the same way. I choose the moments, write the brief, and check every clip before it is sent. The editing is done by a small team of specialist editors, each one brought on after a paid test on real footage.
The studio is new; the process behind it is not. You deal with me directly, from the first message onwards. I work from Bangalore and cover US and UK hours.
Start here
Send a link to a recent episode and tell us who it is for. Within a day you will get the moments we would cut, the pilot schedule and an invoice. Six clips, two weeks, $450, credited to your first month if you continue.
General enquiries: hello@manifoldcollective.co
Reach me directly: shivankar@manifoldcollective.co
WhatsApp +91 63606 66011 · Bangalore, working US and UK hours
Prefer to talk first? Book fifteen minutes.