From FREE WORK to PAID CLIENTS 💰 | My Complete Video Editing Roadmap (Step-by-Step Guide 2025)

If you’re struggling to get your first paid client as a video editor, this video is for you. I’ll share my complete roadmap — how I started from editing for free for friends and family, built a strong portfolio, sent cold emails, and finally got my first paying clients. Whether you’re a beginner or intermediate editor, this step-by-step guide will help you: ✅ Build a professional portfolio from scratch ✅ Find real clients (even with 0 experience) ✅ Use cold emails + platforms like Internshala & YouTube Jobs ✅ Learn how to charge more and scale your editing career 🔥 Watch till the end — I also share some powerful tools and my personal tips that actually work in 2025! 💻 Tools Mentioned: Notion (for project tracking) Google Drive (portfolio sharing) Hunter.io / Instantly.ai (for email extraction) Canva / Behance (for creative portfolio design) 🎯 More videos like this: 👉 [How to Start Freelance Editing in 2025] 👉 [How to Build a Portfolio That Gets Clients] If you found this helpful, hit Subscribe and join the Editing Engineer community 🚀 Let’s build your editing career — step by step.