You have the footage. You just can't process it. Every ED, comms lead and development director we talk to has the same drive collecting dust: the gala, the site visit, the field footage from last program cycle, the founder interview nobody has had time to cut. Paste a link below and a real editor gets started on your first video. No contract. No credit card. No new shoot.
Every organization we work with has one: the drive from the last gala, the footage a program officer shot on a site visit, the testimonials your development team recorded for year-end and never used. The footage isn't the problem. You did the hard, expensive part already. The problem is everything that was supposed to happen after the shoot and never did.
The gala. The site visit. The field footage your program team brought back. The 40-minute interview with your founder. Shot, backed up, labeled RAW_0001 through RAW_0058, and never opened again.
Nobody on your team has a free afternoon, let alone the three days it takes to log a drive, find the good moments and decide what to do with them.
Your comms person is also your grant writer, your event planner and, on Tuesdays, your IT department. Editing video is the thing that always slides to next quarter.
So the year-end appeal goes out with a stock photo and three paragraphs of text. The impact report becomes a PDF. The drive goes back in the drawer. And next year you pay to shoot it all over again.
Here's the uncomfortable math. If you paid a videographer $3,000 for that shoot and used 90 seconds of it, you paid about $2,000 for every minute you actually posted. That's not a production problem. That's a processing problem. And it's the one thing we fix.
You don't need another shoot. You need someone to open the drive, find the moments worth watching and cut them into content your donors will actually stop for. That's the entire service. Here's how it works.
Share a Google Drive, Dropbox or Frame.io link, or ship us the hard drive itself. Messy folders, weird file names, six cameras from one gala: all fine. Sorting it is our job now.
A real editor goes through what you have, pulls the strongest moment and sends you back a finished, post-ready clip. No invoice. No card on file. You see exactly what your footage is worth before you decide anything.
For $995 a month you get unlimited edit requests from your footage: social clips, donor videos, event recaps, impact stories, testimonials. As many as your team can post.
A single 40-minute interview can become a sustainer thank-you, three Reels, a newsletter clip, an impact-report segment and a recruiting video. Here's what we typically pull out of an organization's forgotten footage:
Since Are You Happy hit a million followers and raised $60,000 for a special-needs school bus, we've been cutting stories for nonprofits, foundations and NGOs. A few numbers from that work:
Results from productions and social campaigns we ran for these organizations. Same editors, same playbook, now pointed at the footage you already have.
You have three options. Two of them are what nonprofits usually do. One of them is why this page exists.
New crew, new travel, new shoot day, new invoice. Meanwhile the old drive keeps sitting in the drawer with the footage you already paid for.
One person, one skill set, one set of hours. Great when they're busy. Expensive when the drive is empty and they're waiting for the next shoot.
Unlimited edit requests from the footage you already own. A full editing team that does this for nonprofits every day. No new shoot, no new crew, no new budget line.
Start with a free editThat's less than a part-time editor, for a team that has cut stories for the nonprofits on this page.
Send us a link to your footage. We'll edit your first video, free, so you can see exactly what that drive is worth before you spend a dollar. If you don't love it, you owe us nothing. If you do, you'll want the other forty videos hiding on the same drive. Either way, you'll finally know what you've been sitting on.
Yes. One finished, post-ready clip cut from your footage. No invoice, no card on file, no fine print. It's how we show you what your drive can do instead of telling you.
Anything a camera or a phone produces. MP4, MOV, MXF, RAW, iPhone clips, old DSLR folders. If it plays, we can cut it.
Share a Google Drive, Dropbox or Frame.io link, or ship us the drive. We'll walk you through the easiest option on your call.
Any edit from your footage: social clips, donor videos, event recaps, impact-report segments, testimonials, captions, and resized versions for every platform. Send requests as you need them and we work through them continuously.
Send it anyway. Most footage people call unusable has thirty usable seconds in it, and thirty good seconds is a Reel.
You do. It's your footage and your story. Post it, send it to donors, drop it in the annual report.
No. It's $995 a month for as long as it's working for you, and the first clip costs nothing.
Every month it sits there, the footage gets older, the campaign it was shot for gets further away, and your donors keep scrolling past someone else's story. Send it to us this week. We'll send back your first clip, free.
P.S. Your gala footage is already a season old. Those 2024 interviews are turning into archive material. The best time to use your footage was the week you shot it. The second-best time is this week.
Where should we send it when it's done?
Rough answers are fine. We'll dig in together on the call.
