Video Editing in Qatar, From QAR 580 a Video
Short-form, QAR 580 per video. Up to 60 seconds, captions, two revision rounds.
Long-form, QAR 2,300 per video. Up to five minutes, captions, music, two revision rounds.
Motion graphics or animated explainer, QAR 5,900. Up to 45 seconds, including script, storyboard and voiceover coordination.
The split, said once and clearly
Rankly edits. Rankly does not shoot.
You film it, or a local videographer in Doha films it, and the footage comes here to be cut, graded, captioned and delivered. That is the honest division of a service that most agencies sell as one thing, and it happens to be the half that travels across a border without losing anything.
If you need someone in Qatar holding a camera, you need a local shooter. That introduction is worth making before a project starts rather than during, and it costs nothing to ask.
What this actually covers
Reels and shorts
for Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, cut to platform aspect ratios, not one export resized four waysTestimonials and interviews
, cut for pace, with the pauses and repetitions removedProduct videos
from footage or from stills with motion appliedEvent recaps
, which in Qatar means conferences, exhibitions and openingsCaptions and subtitles in English and Arabic
, burned in or as a sidecar fileMotion graphics
, logo animations and animated explainers
Captioning matters more than it looks. A large share of social video is watched without sound, and in a market as multilingual as Qatar, captions are frequently how the message lands at all.
Filming it yourself, well enough
Most short-form video in Qatar is shot on a phone and that is fine. What makes footage editable:
Shoot horizontal and vertical separately
if you need both, rather than shooting wide and hoping it crops. A person framed for landscape loses their head in a nine-by-sixteen crop.Lock the phone down
A cheap tripod removes more problems in editing than anything else you can buy.Record sound close to the speaker
This is the single thing that cannot be fixed later. Phone microphones at three metres in a room with hard surfaces produce audio no editor can rescue, and a clip-on microphone costs less than one edit.Shoot more than you need
, including a few seconds before and after each take.Avoid mixed lighting
Daylight through a window plus warm interior bulbs gives two different colour temperatures in one frame, and correcting it costs time.
Send a short test clip before a real shoot and you will get a straight answer on whether the setup is workable.
What the brief needs to say
Video briefs fail in the same way every time: the footage arrives with no indication of what the video is supposed to do, and the editor guesses.
Four things settle it. Where it will be posted, because a reel, a website header and a LinkedIn post want different pacing and different aspect ratios. What the viewer should do afterwards, since a video ending in a call to action is cut differently from one building familiarity. How long it can be, as a hard ceiling in place of a preference. What must appear, meaning the product, the person, the logo placement or the offer.
Answering those four takes five minutes and removes most of the reason projects reach a third revision round.
How it is delivered
Editors come from the production network. Arbaz briefs them, watches every cut before you do, and carries the answer if something is wrong.
Each editor passes a paid test brief first. Turnaround gets agreed per project once the brief and footage are complete, then written into the confirmation, because a batch of short-form cuts from one shoot moves at a very different pace from a first long-form edit with no reference.
What is excluded
Filming
Not offered, in Qatar or elsewhere.Licensed music and stock footage
, quoted separately and billed at cost. Using unlicensed music on a business account is a takedown waiting to happen.Voiceover artists
, coordinated in the motion graphics price and billed at cost.Arabic translation
Arabic captions are set and timed from a script you supply. Translating the script is a different profession and is referred out.Scripting
, except in the motion graphics price where it is included.Platform publishing
Files are delivered to you. Scheduling sits with social or with your team.
What this costs
| Service | QAR |
|---|---|
| Short-form edit, up to 60 seconds | 580 per video |
| Long-form edit, up to 5 minutes | 2,300 per video |
| Motion graphics or animated explainer, up to 45 seconds | 5,900 |
| Monthly content kit, including 4 short-form edits | 3,800 per month |
| Additional revision round | 350 |
The monthly kit is the cheaper route if the need recurs, because it bundles 16 graphics and 8 bilingual captions alongside the four edits. See the pricing page for everything else.
Questions we get asked
Can you edit footage from a professional shoot?
Yes, and it is easier. Send the raw files instead of an export, plus any audio recorded separately, and the edit starts from better material.
What if my footage is unusable?
You get told before the work starts rather than after. That is a free answer, and it is more useful than an edit that cannot be saved. The usual culprit is audio.
Do you do subtitles in Arabic?
Yes, set and timed properly with correct right-to-left rendering, from an Arabic script you provide. Translating an English script into Arabic is not offered here.
How many revisions do I get?
Two rounds, then QAR 350 each, agreed before they start. Most short-form edits settle in one, provided the brief said what the video is for.
Can you cut one shoot into several videos?
Yes, and this is usually the best value available. A single well-shot session frequently yields six to ten short-form cuts, priced per video, which is far cheaper than commissioning each separately.
Send a clip
Send a sample clip and say what the video is for and where it will be posted. You will get a straight answer on whether the footage works, what it will cost, and how long it will take.
Send a sample clip before a real shoot and you will get a straight answer on whether the setup works.