The above example is an outsource wedding video editing highlights film produced by the team at Studio Moguls

 → The first reason studios outsource wedding video editing to Studio Moguls is because they want to grow and scale their business.

It’s really quite simple. If you want to run a truly successful business that will be around in 10, 20 or 30 years time, you are not going to be able to do it alone. It’s going to take team of people to execute on your vision – and it’s going to involve letting go of the reins a little. As an owner of a wedding studio that has done more than 1,500 weddings since I started it in 2010, the wedding video editing was by far the most time consuming task – so that is the first thing I let go of.

I am not going to lie. Training a team to replicate your style can be challenging for a multitude of reasons. One of the most common reasons wedding studio owners struggle to take the first step to growing a business beyond themselves is the idea of letting go – and the fear associated with someone not being able to edit to the standards you have been delivering.

But I had the attitude that moving to an outsource wedding video editing model was the safest thing to let go of – because if it was not done correctly, it could always be fixed after the fact. The same cannot be said for hiring shooters – we only get one go at that!

Yes – I understand and hear you. No one is going to be able to execute on the wedding video editing like you do and produce exactly the same results – at least to start with! 

If you have the mindset that because no one will be able to do it like you – and you use that as justification for not handing your work over to another editor, the unfortunate reality is that in 5 years time you are still going to be stuck in front of your computer on your 30th coffee of the week being the head honcho of your wedding video editing team – cutting the preparations, ceremony, photoshoot and reception of yet another wedding (your 350th wedding of the decade) and feeling like its Groundhog Day – and a slave to your business!

When I thought of it this way – the first thing I did was a google search for outsource wedding video editing to see what options were available. That was not going to be me!

From that moment, I wanted to build a high quality team around me that could help deliver on the most time consuming and repetitive tasks in the business – of which wedding video editing is most certainly one.

With my new-found time, I was then able to focus on what was most important at that time such as the face to face sales meetings with clients, developing training resources for my growing team of shooters, spending more time on my digital marketing strategy and even better – looking at new markets outside of the wedding industry so that I had a more diverse offering of services. 

None of this would have been possible if I didn’t do that first google search for “outsource wedding video editing”. 

Of course my journey started with using local editors in my home city and then other outsource wedding video editing companies, and it culminated with building my own outsource wedding video editing company back in 2016. Overall though, going down the outsource wedding video editing path was the best thing I ever did for not only my wedding studio but for my career in general because with all the extra time I had, I was able to build a number of other businesses that complimented my wedding studio.

Above: An outsource wedding video editing example produced by the team at Studio Moguls

→ The second reason wedding video studios join our outsource wedding video editing program is because having a flexible lifestyle is important to them

From my perspective – lifestyle is everything.

I have made many business mistakes over the years but the one thing I didn’t get wrong was that my lifestyle was important to me and I was always going to structure my business around this value – and I made this decision from the start.

Sure, there is some sacrifice in handing over your RAW footage to someone else and commencing the outsource wedding video editing journey. For one, it costs you money. Many people in our industry would rather keep an extra couple of hundred dollars in their pocket and run themselves into the ground bit by bit over the course of years. It’s death by a thousand cuts. 

But I knew from the start, the above scenario was not ever going to happen to me. I wanted to be creatively free and always inspired – and if I was solely responsible for all of the wedding video editing for our studio, that was not going to be possible. The lightbulb well and truly went off for me: I had to outsource my wedding video editing or not have a business at all! 

I also wanted choice as to what my next creative project was going to be and for that to happen, I needed time and space to develop new projects and bring them to life.

For every hour I was sitting in front of my machine editing wedding videos myself, as opposed to going down the outsource wedding video editing path, I was loosing that time to sit, think and create.

What I have learnt after many years in the outsource wedding video editing game is that wedding video editing has a formula that is quite easy for someone to replicate. That is why I have never been worried about following the outsourcing wedding video editing path – because it’s absolutely a task that someone else can do to a level that is close to 100% of what I want it to be.

The video above is an outsource wedding video editing example produced by the team at Studio Moguls

→ The third reason wedding studios engage us for their outsource wedding video editing needs is because we are affordable – even at scale

When we formed Studio Moguls back in 2016, we wanted to create an outsource wedding video editing solution that studios from all corners of the globe could rely on to not only deliver high quality edits to help clear backlogs when they arose, but we wanted to price ourselves in a way that made financial sense for our studios to use our outsource wedding video editing service on every wedding they filmed. 

Whist we do edit lots of “one-off” projects for studios from around the world to help clear their backlogs, our best work happens with our regular clients who deliver us 20, 30, 40 or even 80 outsource wedding video editing projects per year. We knew that for the average studio to send this much work over to us, we would have to be at a price point that was so attractive that it would be too hard to say “NO” to. 

We know you are in the wedding business to generate profit – so we wanted to make sure we were the best value outsource wedding video editing company in the market – and we think we are. 

We are confident our outsource wedding video editing pricing is perfectly suited to keep your profit margins high – even when you send us close to 100% of the weddings you shoot.