Freelance post
A post specialist you can book by the day
For producers, agencies and post houses who need the edit cut, the plate cleaned or the graphics built — and need it this week.
What you are booking
One person who cuts, composites and animates, which means a job that would normally be handed between an editor, a comp artist and a designer stays on one timeline with one set of eyes on it. Most of the work here started as a single discipline and ended up needing all three: a corporate film that needed a logo animated, a commercial that needed a boom removed from a locked-off shot, a music video that was half animation by the time it delivered.
The practical version: you send the brief, the footage and the deadline. You get a first cut, changes turned around inside a day, and masters in every format your delivery spec asks for.
The kit it runs through
Premiere Pro for the cut, After Effects for everything that moves, Mocha for planar tracking, and the rest of the Adobe suite for the pieces in between. Projects come back in the application they arrived in, organised the way your team organises them.
- Premiere Pro
- After Effects
- Mocha
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Media Encoder
- Audition
The rate
R6,500 per day, in South African Rand, excluding VAT. It is the same number whether the job is in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Dubai or London — there is no separate international rate, and no premium for working remotely.
Day rate work is invoiced on delivery, or monthly on a retainer. Full terms and what the day covers are on the pricing page.
How it works with your team
In your pipeline, not mine. That means your project template, your bin structure, your naming convention and your review platform. Cuts go up with timecoded comments so notes land in one place, and media is managed so the project opens on your machine without a hunt for missing files.
If the job needs to be handed to your own finishing team mid-flight, it will be organised so they can pick it up cold.
- Offline edit to picture lock, from rushes or from a paper edit
- Online conform, clean-up and delivery masters
- Compositing, rotoscoping, tracking and screen replacement
- Motion graphics, titles and animated brand systems
- Versioning: aspect ratios, cutdowns, subtitles, language variants
Who this is for
Producers who have lost an editor a week before delivery. Agencies with more work than seats. Post houses that need a comp artist for an overflow job. Brand teams with an in-house content pipeline and no one to run the finishing.
If you are looking for someone to make the whole thing — concept, crew, shoot, post — that is a different page: turnkey production is quoted per project rather than by the day.
The three lanes
Most jobs are one of these, and plenty are all three.
- Video editing Offline and online edit in Premiere Pro, cut to the brief.
- Animation & compositing After Effects compositing, Mocha tracking, clean-up and green screen.
- Motion graphics Titles, lower thirds and animated brand systems.
- Toyota Hilux Farmers — NAMPO 2026
- Toyota Hilux Harvest — NAMPO 2026
- CUR8 Digital Art Gallery
- The Brenthurst
- Moshal Summit
- Society House, Downtown Dubai
Working from somewhere else
Most of this work is delivered remotely. If your team is in Dubai, India, Europe or the UK, remote post production sets out how the workflow and the time zone actually run. If you need the whole film made rather than finished, that is turnkey production.
Have something to cut?
Send the brief, the deadline and the deliverables. I'll come back with a scope and a quote, or tell you straight if it isn't a job for me.