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Lead with your output: which formats, how many a month, and whether a script arrives with the footage or has to be written. Mira AI drafts the job description and a scorecard from that, the role reaches our candidate community, and every showreel is ranked as it arrives. You watch the shortlist yourself and Wisemonk employs whoever you choose.

Editing is one of the more affordable creative hires, and short-form editors sit at the accessible end of that. Motion designers cost noticeably more because the skill combines design and animation, and experienced 3D artists are the most expensive in this group since the pool is small and games and advertising compete for it. Open a role and we will check your band against live India payroll figures.

Freelancers suit campaigns with a defined start and end. In-house wins the moment you are publishing to a schedule, because the real cost of a freelance arrangement is not the invoice, it is re-explaining your format, your tone and your caption style to somebody new every few months. If you publish weekly, an employed editor almost always works out cheaper and calmer.

Yes, and the timezone can work in your favour: footage handed over at the end of your day frequently comes back cut by the start of the next one. The one thing worth setting up properly is file transfer, because raw video is heavy. A shared cloud workspace with proxy workflows solves it, and it is worth arranging in the first week rather than the third month.

An editor starts with footage somebody filmed and decides what stays, in which order, at what rhythm. A motion designer starts with nothing and builds what moves: type, shapes, graphics, transitions. Some people genuinely do both, but asking one advert to find both usually produces applicants who are competent at neither.

Up to a point, and for many teams that point is far enough. A strong editor with After Effects experience will cover titles, lower thirds and simple graphic sequences perfectly well. What they will not do is build an animated explainer from a blank canvas at the same standard as a specialist. Be clear which half of the work dominates your calendar and hire for that.

You do. Every Wisemonk employment contract assigns intellectual property in the work to your company, which covers project files, renders, source assets and everything produced during employment. Two practical habits: keep footage in your own cloud storage from day one, and license fonts, music and stock to the company rather than to an individual account.

No. Wisemonk is the legal employer, holds the contract, and runs payroll with provident fund, gratuity, ESI and tax withholding included. The editor works to your schedule and your formats. If your company already has an Indian entity, the hire can go on that instead.

Watch it once for the feeling and once for the seams. Then ask which sequences they personally cut, what the footage looked like before they touched it, and what the deadline was. A reel made from three well-funded projects tells you less than a month of ordinary weekly output, so ask to see that too.

Roughly six to nine years, and the marker is shaping a piece before cutting it rather than assembling what was filmed. A senior editor rescues a shoot that went wrong, holds a consistent look across a series, and can tell you in advance which idea will not survive the edit. Notice runs 60 to 90 days at this level.