A hiker on a ridge as cloud rolls over the mountain

Forty kilometres of nothing, filmed properly — Long Grass, long-form, 24 min

Editor for YouTube and short-form

I know when
to cut in.

Films that hold
to the last minute.

Long-form, series, explainers and vlogs for channels that care how it feels.

All work

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01Forty kilometres of nothing, filmed properlyLong Grass · 24 min

A dark mountain range at dusk with one peak lit by the last sun

Eight years of cutting.
This section has none.

One take across one frame. Scroll, and the camera moves.

About

Wren Mattsson cuts YouTube channels and short-form from a back room in Brooklyn.

Before that: four years at a channel network, two hundred videos a year. Freelance since 2020, for channels between ten thousand and two million subscribers.

More about Wren

The reel, 2026

Ninety seconds, forty-one films.

Watch the reel

See all work

One take, no cuts

Made for the thumb,
cut for the loop.

Vertical edits with captions burned in, from your long-form or from fresh footage.

Rates for shorts

A skateboarder against a low sun between apartment blocks

Golden hour kickflip, take forty

Kerb Notes, short

Wave twelve was the one

Low Tide Club, short

Water poured from a kettle into a pour-over dripper

A pour-over in eight seconds

Bench Coffee, short

A hiker with a canvas backpack among tall pines

Turn left at the birches

Field Book, short

Rush hour, from the handlebar

Night Laps, short

A golden retriever running along a lake shore

He found the tide first

Second Draft, short

Priced by the job,
not by the hour.

Typical lengths on the scale. Every quote is fixed before the first file opens.

Rates and terms

6 s1 min10 min1 h3 h

Turnaround

Price

Shorts

Vertical cuts from your long-form or from fresh footage, captions burned in.

Hook, captions, sound pass, one round of notes

2 days for five

$120 each

Long-form

Your footage, cut for the people who stay to the end.

Structure, sound pass, colour, two titles, two thumbnails

5 days to a first cut

from $650

Series

A recurring show with a fixed shape, weekly or daily.

Episode template, intro and recap, a short from every episode

36 hours an episode

from $2,400 a month

Long talks

Interviews and podcasts: a full-length cut and three clips.

Multicam sync, cleanup, chapters, three clips

4 days

from $480

What the channels said
after the first cut.

Four channels, in their own words. Each line arrives a beat before its picture.

Ruben AchterbergLong Grass

1 of 4

“Nine hours of walking went in. Twenty-four minutes came back, and it was the walk I remembered.”

Ruben AchterbergLong Grass

1 of 4

“Nine hours of walking went in. Twenty-four minutes came back, and it was the walk I remembered.”

Ruben AchterbergLong Grass

1 of 4

“Nine hours of walking went in. Twenty-four minutes came back, and it was the walk I remembered.”

Nadia KesslerPlain Terms

2 of 4

“My audience thinks I own two cameras. I own one, and I have a very patient editor.”

Nadia KesslerPlain Terms

2 of 4

“My audience thinks I own two cameras. I own one, and I have a very patient editor.”

Nadia KesslerPlain Terms

2 of 4

“My audience thinks I own two cameras. I own one, and I have a very patient editor.”

A woman looking across the water at a city

Ines VarelaSecond Draft

3 of 4

“The first cut came back shorter and somehow said more. I stopped writing notes after week two.”

Ines VarelaSecond Draft

3 of 4

“The first cut came back shorter and somehow said more. I stopped writing notes after week two.”

Ines VarelaSecond Draft

3 of 4

“The first cut came back shorter and somehow said more. I stopped writing notes after week two.”

A photographer shooting across a misty gorge

Marcus HaleField Book

4 of 4

“The cuts land on the breath, not on the beat. You can hear the valley again.”

Marcus HaleField Book

4 of 4

“The cuts land on the breath, not on the beat. You can hear the valley again.”

Marcus HaleField Book

4 of 4

“The cuts land on the breath, not on the beat. You can hear the valley again.”

Two thumbnails
for every long-form.

Every long-form edit ships with two titles and two thumbnails to test. Three tests, and what each version earned.

Plain Terms, Your rent, explained without a whiteboard. Rates are click-through.

Long Grass, Forty kilometres of nothing. Rates are click-through.

Slow Wheel, Thirty days, one bowl. Rates are click-through.

Questions,
in chapters.

The things channels ask before the first file changes hands.

Ask something else

0:00

What do you need from me to start?

A link to the footage, your publish date and one of your videos that you think works. If there is a script or an outline, send that too. If not, we write the structure together on a call.

0:00

What do you need from me to start?

A link to the footage, your publish date and one of your videos that you think works. If there is a script or an outline, send that too. If not, we write the structure together on a call.

0:00

What do you need from me to start?

A link to the footage, your publish date and one of your videos that you think works. If there is a script or an outline, send that too. If not, we write the structure together on a call.

Notes from
the edit.

Short essays on cutting for people who watch to the end.

All notes

A cyclist resting on a bridge over a river

Sep 28, 2026

The first thirty seconds are not a trailer

Why I stopped opening videos with the best shot, and what goes there instead.

Punch-ins are a second camera you forgot to bring

5 min read

Hands opening a clay vessel on the wheel

Cutting a series without making it samey

7 min read

What I ask for before I open the footage

4 min read

A foggy street at night with lamps and bollards

That’s the cut.
Yours could be next.

Booking edits from November. Send a link to the footage and your publish date.

hello@wrenmattsson.example

Frame from the reel: a hiker climbing into cloud on a ridge

Watch the reel

Ninety seconds, forty-one films

Your video here

Book an edit

A reply within a working day

I know whento cut in.

I know whento cut in.

Films that holdto the last minute.

Eight years of cutting.This section has none.

Wren Mattsson cuts YouTube channels and short-form from a back room in Brooklyn.

Ninety seconds, forty-one films.

Made for the thumb,cut for the loop.

Priced by the job,not by the hour.

Shorts

$120 each

Long-form

from $650

Series

from $2,400 a month

Long talks

from $480

What the channels saidafter the first cut.

Two thumbnailsfor every long-form.

Questions,in chapters.

Notes fromthe edit.

The first thirty seconds are not a trailer

That’s the cut.Yours could be next.

I know when
to cut in.

I know when
to cut in.

Films that hold
to the last minute.

Eight years of cutting.
This section has none.

Made for the thumb,
cut for the loop.

Priced by the job,
not by the hour.

What the channels said
after the first cut.

Two thumbnails
for every long-form.

Questions,
in chapters.

Notes from
the edit.

That’s the cut.
Yours could be next.