edpal Academy
A self-paced course for editors who are stuck or plateaued: DaVinci Resolve, color, sound, and motion graphics, taught properly. Then the part almost nobody teaches: landing retainer clients and scaling past solo freelancing by building a small team.
For self-taught editors who can already cut a clean video but are stuck trading hours for scraps, not for people who've never opened an editing app.
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Who this is actually for
This is for you if
- You can already cut a clean video, but you're stuck trading hours for dollars
- You want fewer, better clients, not more low-paying ones
- You want a repeatable system, not just more tutorials
- You want your portfolio and pricing to finally match your skill level
Not for you if
- You've never opened an editing app before. This isn't a beginner course
- You want 1-on-1 coaching calls. This is self-paced, video and resources only
- You're looking for a get-rich-quick pitch, not a craft-and-client-work grind
Three steps from stuck to scaled
Learn the actual Resolve + motion graphics workflow
Not another 20-minute overview. The edit, color, and sound workflow I run on real paid client work, plus how to layer motion graphics on top of it using Remotion instead of After Effects.
- Resolve fundamentals & an edit workflow that doesn't fight you
- Color grading and sound design that reads as premium
- Motion graphics that separate you from a $30/hour editor
Package your edit style into a niche and a rate you can defend
Skill without positioning still gets you underpriced. This is about turning 'I can edit anything' into a specific style clients search for, and a rate that doesn't move every time a cheaper editor shows up.
- Pick a niche clients are actually searching for
- Price for retainers, not one-off gigs
- Build a portfolio that sells the niche, not just your reel
Land clients and scale past yourself
The part almost nobody teaches. How to actually land retainer clients, then how to stop being the bottleneck by hiring, briefing, and managing a small team of subcontractor editors.
- Land retainer clients and raise your rate without losing them
- Hire and brief your first subcontractor editor
- Build an inbound content engine so clients come to you
Eight modules. Craft first, then the business that scales it.
Resolve Fundamentals & an Edit Workflow That Doesn't Fight You
Timeline structure, keyboard-first cutting, proxy workflows, and the organizational habits that separate editors who ship fast from editors who reopen the same project five times.
Color & Sound That Make Content Feel Premium
Grading in Resolve's color page without it looking 'graded,' plus the sound design layer: mix levels, SFX, room tone. That's the difference between an edit that feels expensive and one that feels like a rough cut.
Motion Graphics on Top of Your Edit
Layering motion graphics into a Resolve timeline, and an intro to building them in Remotion: code-based, versionable motion design most editors never touch. This is the differentiator that gets you out of the $30/hour bracket.
Packaging a Style Clients Actually Search For
How to turn 'I can edit anything' into a specific, sellable niche. Walked through using YouTube lifestyle/vlog editing as the working example. It's the positioning move that matters, not just the niche itself.
Landing Retainers & Raising Your Rate Without Losing the Client
Where to actually find clients, how to pitch a retainer instead of one-off gigs, and the scripts for asking for more money that don't get you replaced by the next cheaper editor.
Scaling Past Yourself
Hiring your first subcontractor editor, writing a brief that doesn't require you to babysit it, and building a review process so client quality holds when you're not the one cutting every frame.
Building an Inbound Engine So Clients Come to You
A repeatable personal-brand content system: what to post, how often, and how it turns into inbound leads, so you stop cold-pitching and start fielding DMs.
Templates & Presets
Exportable Resolve color presets, sound design starter kits, and Remotion motion graphic templates from the modules above. Drop them straight into your own projects.
What the curriculum is built from
No cohort has gone through this yet, so instead of made-up student wins, here's the actual client work the curriculum is pulled from.
Barry Stevenson
pov: my INSANE week in Japan (ft. Maurits)
Barry Stevenson
pov: i spent 37,840$ in Greece at 18 (cause why not)
Mason Schaedel
Why I walked away from a $2M brand - day in the life
Taibi
Escape to Paris With Wifey
Carson Johns
I Tested Every Viral Self Improvement Hack
Barry Stevenson
17 year old agency owner in St Moritz
50 founding seats. Once they're gone, so is the price.
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I'm Ed. I picked up editing as a teenager.
No film school, no mentor. Just hours in the timeline, reverse-engineering edits I liked until I could reproduce them. My first client didn't come from a course or a job board, it came from cold messaging someone on Instagram whose content I already knew how to make better.
Everything in this course comes out of that same path scaled up: real client work, real retainers, and eventually a small team of subcontractor editors so the business didn't stay capped at what one person can cut in a week. I'm not teaching editing psychology or theory I read somewhere. I'm teaching the workflow, the pricing, and the hiring decisions that actually got me here, using edpal's own client work as the case study.
Everything in the founding tier
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Step 1 — The Craft (Resolve, color, sound, motion graphics)
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Every price below is a one-time payment: lifetime access to the course and every future update, no recurring charge.
Founding Member
one-time, first 50 seats only
Full course access at the lowest price it will ever be, plus your name in the credits as a founding student and direct input on what gets added next.
- All 7 modules + the template/preset bonus vault
- Lifetime access, all future updates included
- Founding-member badge in the private community
- Priced lower than it will ever be again
Standard
one-time payment
Full course access, no artificial limits. For whenever you're ready and the founding tier has sold out.
- All 7 modules + the template/preset bonus vault
- Lifetime access, all future updates included
- Access to the private community
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Stop trading hours for scraps. Start building something that scales.
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Results vary. This course teaches skills, pricing, and hiring strategy drawn from real client work — what you earn depends on your own effort, market, and starting point. Nothing here is a guaranteed income.
Questions, answered
Neither. It's fully self-paced: video lessons, downloadable templates, and a private community. No calls to schedule, no cohort start dates to wait for. You get access and start whenever you want.
Results vary and are not guaranteed. edpal Academy is an educational course, not a promise of income, and past client results don't predict your own.