Film crew hire/Bristol/Editor
Hire a video editor in Bristol. From the drive off the shoot to the cut that gets signed off.
Freelance editors for brand films, documentaries, corporate films and event cutdowns from Bristol and Bath shoots. Book one to cut with your team, in your office or remotely, or hand the whole edit to our own post-production team, who cut, grade and mix in-house, as they did H&M’s Bristol store film, out within a week. From £350 a day, paid to the editor in full.
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The role
What an editor does on your film
An editor watches every minute of the rushes, finds the film in them and builds the cut, then takes it through rounds of notes to picture lock. After that, the online, the grade, the mix and the deliverables finish it: one editor on a small job, a specialist for each on a bigger one.
Most of our edits run remotely, so the edit isn’t tied to Bristol: it happens wherever the editor and a fast connection are. What happens in Bristol is the shoot and the hand-off, which is where a good edit starts.
On set, a DIT or camera assistant copies and checks every card; for a quick turnaround, proxies go up from the location so the cut starts the same day. The city has the facilities for the rest: Films at 59’s head office on Cotham Hill runs offline suites, Baselight grading, a DI suite and sound post, and its base at The Bottle Yard handles ingest and media management (checked October 2026). If you want the editor in the room, we book one to work from your office in Bristol or Bath. As a crew agency with 2,800+ freelance crew on our books, 150+ of them in and around Bristol and Bath, we scale a post team up as the job needs it: an assistant editor for the ingest, a colourist, a social editor for the cutdowns.
- The structure found. Hours of interviews and B-roll watched, logged and built into a beginning, a middle and an end.
- Notes turned round. Two rounds of amends as standard, each back fast, with comments on the timecode.
- Every screen covered. Masters, cutdowns, subtitles and the right ratio for every platform.
- Your software, or ours. Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Avid or Final Cut, in your office or remote.
What’s included
What the day rate covers
In the day rate
- A full edit day, in your office or remotely
- Syncing and logging the rushes
- Building the cut to your brief and notes
- Review exports whenever you need them
- The project and media handed over at the end
- Premiere Pro, Resolve, Avid or Final Cut
On top, each on its own line
- Our 10% booking fee and 2% insurance, on the whole quote
- An edit suite or kit, if you need one, at a day rate
- Grade, sound mix, music and stock, each quoted separately
- Drives couriered from the shoot, at cost
- Travel from outside Bristol, and mileage, parking and the Clean Air Zone charge where the day needs them, at cost
Rather we ran the edit? Our post-production team cuts from £550 a day, with the suite and two rounds of amends, and grades from £600 a day. How our crew rates work: crew rates in Bristol.
Two ways to book
Crew hire or full production: who’s the producer of record?
One question sets the price: who’s the producer of record? Book an editor to cut for your own team, or have us make the whole Bristol film, from the shoot to the masters.
Crew hire
You run the shoot.
10% + 2% booking fee and insurance, on everything we book for you: crew, kit and travel.
We do
- Find, book and brief the crew, and pay them
- Book kit, travel and hotels too, if you want them
- Send the full price before anything is booked
- One person to call all day
- Employers’ liability for the crew we book, and insurance on kit we hire in
You do
- Run the shoot, or your producer does
- The plan, the schedule and the call sheet
- The location, its permission and its public liability
- Responsibility for the production: you’re the producer of record
What the 2% insures: employers’ liability for every crew member we book, and the kit we hire in for you. Nothing else on the shoot. A large kit rental may need extra insurance, as its own line on the quote.
Full production
We’re the producer of record.
15% + 5% production fee, plus insurance and contingency, on the whole production budget. Quoted as a production.
We do
- Our producer plans it with you and runs the day
- Locations, permits, kit, studio, travel and hotels, booked and paid in our name
- Insurance for the whole shoot, public liability included, plus the risk assessment and the call sheet
- One contract and one invoice, so overseas teams need no UK company
You do
- The creative calls
- Signing off the plan and the budget
What the 5% pays for: our production insurance across the whole shoot, £10m public liability included, and the contingency.
Not sure which you need? If your own producer or director will run the day, it’s crew hire. If you want us to take the production on, it’s a full production quote.
On the day
A day in the edit, rushes to first cut
Day one on a two-minute film from a conference day at Bristol Beacon: a keynote, three interviews and the room. Times are an example.
- 09:00 Rushes in The drive back from the Beacon with the crew, or the proxies already up overnight over the venue’s connection. Copied, checked against the card count, and backed up.
- 10:00 Watch it all Synced to the sound, organised by camera and interview, and the best lines of the keynote marked by timecode in a selects sequence.
- 12:30 Lunch An hour away from the screen.
- 13:30 The radio edit The interviews cut for sense first, as if for radio: a beginning, a middle and an end, in the speakers’ own words.
- 15:30 Pictures The stage, the room and the audience laid over the voices, and the pace set with music.
- 17:00 First cut Exported with burnt-in timecode and sent on a review link, so the client can send notes against the timecode that evening.
- 17:30 Wrap Project saved and backed up twice. Tomorrow: the notes, then the cutdowns for social.
Want to watch the cut together? Watershed’s Cinema 1 seats 197 and takes cast and crew screenings every day (checked October 2026).
Which kind
Which editor do you need?
An edit runs in stages, and a bigger film has a specialist for each.
Offline editor The creative cut From £350 a day
Builds the structure and the cut, and takes it through notes to picture lock.
Best for brand films, documentaries, customer stories and recruitment films.
Online editor Finishing and deliverables Quoted on the brief
Conforms the locked cut at full quality, adds titles and makes the deliverables.
Best for broadcast and anything with strict delivery specs, such as a TV ad cleared through Clearcast for ITV in the West.
Assistant editor Ingest, sync and logging Quoted on the brief
Organises the rushes, syncs the sound, logs and transcribes, so the editor can start cutting.
Best on long-form and multi-camera projects, and on a conference with several rooms filming at once.
Colourist The grade From £600 a day
Grades the film so every shot matches and the look holds.
Best for anything shot on a cinema camera. In the city, Films at 59 runs Baselight grading and a DI suite at its Cotham Hill head office (checked October 2026).
Motion designer Titles, graphics and animation Quoted on the brief
Animated titles, lower thirds, data and explainer graphics.
Best for corporate, financial and explainer films. Xanadoo’s concept film, shot at The Forge in Bristol, carries its numbers in stat-led motion graphics made by our team.
Social editor Cutdowns and versions Quoted on the brief
Turns a master into 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 cutdowns, with subtitles, for every platform.
Best after a brand film or an event, when the content needs to go out this week.
What it’s for
What people book an editor for in Bristol
Agency overflow
An extra editor in your office in Clifton, Bedminster or Stokes Croft, or remote, for a busy fortnight.
Event films
A store opening, a launch or a conference at Bristol Beacon cut the same week, for the press and the people who were there.
Fundraising and explainer films
Scripted voice-over, interviews and simple animation for a charity, a co-operative or a start-up raising money.
Productions at The Bottle Yard
An assistant editor or an editor for a visiting production, with ingest and media management from Films at 59 on the same site.
Social cutdowns
Vertical, square and subtitled versions of a master for a university, a festival or a brand that needs them out this week.
Recent work
Edits by our own team
Cut by our own post-production team: one in Bristol, one in Paris.
Our work · Bristol
H&M’s Bristol store reopening
An event film for the reopening of H&M’s Bristol store, which came to us through The Park, a London PR agency. We filmed the day beside the press photographer and had the edit out within a week. The reopening was a members-only party with a DJ, so the cut had to be fast and fun and still show members what was in it for them.
Crew, kit and edit · Team USA House, Paris · July to September 2024
An editor on site, through two Games
Thirty-four days in France across the Olympic and Paralympic Games, cutting every day. GMR Marketing, part of Omnicom, booked us to run the crew and kit for Xfinity’s athlete studio inside Team USA House, and our editor sat on site, so each film went out while the Games were still on. Footage went to GMR through LucidLink, with Frame.io for review, and the unit delivered ten more films than the original scope, plus TikTok cut-downs and a wrap-up film.
Before you book
Things to know
The day
- 11 hours, including an hour for lunch.
- Overtime agreed with you before it happens.
- In a suite, in your office or remote, as you prefer.
From the Bristol shoot
- Cards copied and checked on set by a DIT or camera assistant, with a second copy before any card is wiped.
- Proxies uploaded from the location when the edit has to start the same day.
- Drives handed over at wrap, or couriered from the location, at cost.
Shooting and screening in Bristol
- Bristol Film Office asks for at least £5m public liability and a full risk assessment with every application.
- A venue with its own fast line saves a courier: Bristol Beacon streams live from the building without a satellite truck (checked October 2026).
- Watershed’s Cinema 1 takes rushes, technical and cast and crew screenings every day (checked October 2026).
Paying and changes
- Nothing to pay until you confirm the editor.
- 50% by card when you book, 50% on receipt of the final rushes.
- Every line on the quote: day rate, booking fee, kit, travel.
- Moving the date? Tell us as soon as you know.
- Cancellation terms are on every quote.
What our insurance covers
- Employers’ liability for the editor we book: £10m.
- Kit we hire in for you is insured. A large kit rental may need extra insurance, as its own line on the quote.
- Nothing else on a crew hire. Public liability, the location and your own kit stay with you, and your venue will want your certificate. When we’re the producer of record, our policy covers the shoot.
From £350 a day
There’s no APA/Bectu card rate for editors: post-production isn’t on the APA crew card.
| Editor, a day | £350 |
| Booking fee, 10% | £35 |
| Insurance, 2% | £7 |
| One edit day, before kit | £392 |
The 2% is employers’ liability for the editor we book, and cover on kit we hire in. What it covers
You won’t pay anything until you confirm the editor.
- 50% by card at booking, 50% on the final rushes
- Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours
- Every line on the quote before anything is booked
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Reviews
What clients say about our crews
Straight from our Google Business Profile.
Book an editor in Bristol.
Tell us how much footage there is, how many films you need, the software, and whether the editor sits with you or works remotely. Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours. Or call us on 07412 543822.
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The whole crew
Every role in Bristol, booked the same way
One brief, one quote, every role on its own line. Our day rates in Bristol, paid to the crew member in full:
Production 06
- Director From £500
- Producer From £450
- Production manager £504–627
- 2nd AD £355–448
- Production assistant £400
- Runner £245
Camera 07
- DOP From £850
- Camera operator £529–656
- Focus puller £461–575
- Clapper loader £355–448
- Steadicam operator From £950
- Gimbal operator £529–656
- Drone operator From £750
Data and playback 02
- DIT £527
- Video playback £334–518
Sound 01
- Sound recordist £550
Hair, make-up and costume 02
- Hair and make-up £398
- Costume £519–694
Art department 02
- Art director £675–878
- Set builders £341–512
Post-production 01
- Editor This page From £350
How our rates work: crew rates in Bristol. Or start from a set-up: interview crews and units in Bristol.
Production support
Everything around the crew
An edit starts with the rushes, so here’s how the shoot side runs in Bristol, from the permits to the DIT.
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Locations and permits
Bristol Film Office, Bath Film Office, the harbour, the bridge and the drone rules.
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Studios and set builds
The Bottle Yard’s stages, green screen and blackout studios, and set builds.
Questions
Hiring a video editor in Bristol: questions
How much does a video editor cost in Bristol?
Our freelance editors start at £350 a day, paid to the editor in full, plus our 10% booking fee and 2% insurance: £392 + VAT. Our rates are national, so a Bristol edit costs the same as anywhere else we crew. If you’d rather we ran the edit, our post-production team cuts from £550 a day, with the suite and two rounds of amends included, and grades from £600 a day.
What does the insurance on a crew booking cover?
Two things. Employers’ liability for every crew member we book, up to £10m, and insurance on the kit we hire in for you. That’s what the 2% pays for. A large kit rental may need extra insurance, as its own line on the quote. The 2% doesn’t insure the rest of the shoot: public liability, the location, your own kit and anything you book yourself stay with you, because you’re the producer of record. If you’d rather we were, it’s quoted as a full production, and our insurance covers the whole shoot, public liability included.
Is the editor in Bristol?
If you want one in the room, yes: we book an editor to work from your office in Bristol or Bath. We’re a crew agency with 2,800+ freelance crew on our books across the UK, 150+ of them in and around Bristol and Bath, so we can scale a crew from one person for a morning to a full unit for a week. Most of our own edits run remotely, so where the editor sits rarely changes the film. Our Bristol office is at Raw Space, 111 Gloucester Road, in Bishopston, and our headquarters is in London, at 124 City Road. Any travel is on the quote before anything is booked.
How do rushes get from a Bristol shoot to the edit?
By upload or by drive. On set, a DIT or camera assistant copies and checks the cards; for an urgent job, proxies go up from the location while you shoot, and the edit starts the same day. The drives follow by courier or come back with the crew, and from Temple Meads a drive can be in London in 1 hour 19 minutes on the fastest trains (checked October 2026). See DIT hire in Bristol.
Can you cut an event film the same week?
Yes. H&M’s Bristol store reopening, which came to us through The Park, was filmed beside the press photographer and the final film was out within a week. For a conference, an editor can sit in a side room or the production office and cut from the cards as they come off the cameras, so highlights go out that evening or the next morning; the room, the power and the upload are agreed with the venue first.
Where can we grade, mix or screen a film in Bristol?
Our own post-production team grades and mixes in-house, from £600 a day for the grade: Xanadoo’s concept film, shot at The Forge, was cut, graded and mixed by our team, motion graphics included. If you’d rather finish in the city, Films at 59’s head office on Cotham Hill has offline suites, Baselight grading, a DI suite, ADR and sound post, its Brockley Studios does foley and audio post, and Watershed’s Cinema 1, with 197 seats, takes rushes, technical and cast and crew screenings every day (checked October 2026).
Can you cut more than one film from a Bristol shoot?
Yes, and it’s the easiest way to get more out of a day’s shoot. Rise Technical Recruitment got a 90-second recruitment film and a set of employee success stories from the same shoot, without extra time or budget. Tell us every version you need before the shoot, and the plan, the questions and the edit are built around all of them from the start.
What software do your editors use?
Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro. Tell us what your project is in, and we’ll match the editor.