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Training · CDTIN, with the City Boy Movement

Video Editing with AI

Edit video properly, with AI doing the slow parts. Seven modules from raw phone footage to a finished, graded, captioned cut you are paid for — and the speed that lets you take the next job.

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Watch the first lesson

An edit decides what the viewer sees, and when

Every subject in this course opens with a short explainer like this one. It stops once to ask you a question. The rest of the lesson is practice.

What you finish holding

One finished cut of your own — assembled, sound-fixed, graded, captioned, titled and exported to the right size for where it is going — plus a second cut of the same footage for a different platform, which is how the job is actually paid.

The seven modules

Taken at your own pace, on your phone. Nothing closes, so a busy week costs you nothing.

  1. What an edit is for, and the footage you actually have
  2. The assembly: finding the story in the footage
  3. Cutting so nobody notices the cut
  4. Sound, which is what gives you away
  5. Grade, and matching shots that do not match
  6. Captions, titles and a template you keep
  7. Export, deliver, invoice

Free from start to finish

The whole course runs on free phone editing tools that work on an ordinary Android phone, with the AI features that are free inside them — captioning, noise removal, background cleanup. Nothing in the seven modules requires a computer or a paid app.

When paying becomes worth it

Pay when a watermark or an export limit is standing between you and a client’s money, which is usually the second or third paid job, not the first. Module seven prices a complete job, so you can see what a paid month would come out of.

What it leads to

Editing is the most immediately sellable skill of the four, because the buyers already exist in every town and they already have footage they cannot cut.

  • Editing for content creators. Per video or on a monthly retainer. Commonly ₦10,000 to ₦60,000 a long video and ₦3,000 to ₦15,000 a short, with a retainer worth more than either.
  • Events: weddings, naming ceremonies, funerals. Subcontracted editing is steady, unglamorous and pays weekly. The course covers the turnaround a photographer actually needs and what a highlight reel is worth.
  • Churches, mosques, schools and associations. A standing weekly job with a template you build once in module six. The most reliable first client a new editor gets, and the easiest to keep.
  • Businesses, campaigns and agencies. Adverts, testimonials and social cuts. Higher rates, harder deadlines, and the brief discipline module seven teaches you to insist on before you accept the job.

Offered free, to anyone in Nigeria, by the Capacity Development Training Initiative in collaboration with the City Boy Movement.

How to join

Registration is open

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