Indianapolis films
Indianapolis projects range from narrative shorts made by local crews to documentaries about people and places across Indiana, plus film work coming out of the area's universities. Many are first or second films, made on small budgets with a few shoot days, so the footage is precious and coverage can be thin. The edit's job is to make every usable angle count.
When coverage is thin, we'll suggest fixes before asking for reshoots: a cutaway from elsewhere in the footage, a restructured scene, or a line moved off-screen. If a pickup shot would fix a real problem, we'll say exactly what it needs to show.
How a Indianapolis project runs
- You share the script and footage and tell us the runtime and the schedule.
- We watch the material and send a written quote with dates for each cut.
- You review the assembly and the rough cut and give notes in a call or on the review link.
- We lock picture, then prepare the files for sound, color and festival submission.
Everything happens online: footage arrives through a share link, cuts go out as private review links, and calls are booked in Eastern time. We don't have an office or a screening room in Indianapolis, and the work doesn't need one.
What you can order
Short film editing
Narrative shorts from assembly to picture lock.
Documentary editing
Finding the story in hours of interviews and verité.
Festival cut and deliverables
Masters, subtitles and the files festivals ask for.
Trailers and teasers
Short pieces that sell the film without giving it away.
Questions
What if we're missing coverage?
We'll tell you at the assembly stage and suggest ways to cut around it, before anyone books a reshoot.
What time zone do you work in for Indianapolis?
We book calls in Eastern time. Everything else happens by email and review links.
Ask for a quote
Cost depends on the amount of footage, the target runtime, the number of cuts and notes rounds, and which deliverables you need. Every project gets its own written quote.