Editing
Rhythm and delivery
Documentaries, commercials, podcasts and creator channels. We shape your footage into a cut with rhythm, then handle sound and clean-up so it holds up anywhere it plays.
How editing works
Video & Photo Studio
Make it look intentional, not just edited.
At GHEORGHE FRATEA, we edit video and finish photography the way we would want it done for ourselves: careful cuts, honest color, and a delivery date that means something.
Direct contact
One person answers your emails, not a queue.
Reply by email
Fixed scope, fixed date, no surprise extras.
Plain-language notes
We would rather say "two weeks" and land in ten.
Fixed scope
Your footage stays yours. Always.
01 — Services
What we do, clearly and without jargon
Everything else we do grows out of these. Each project starts with a written brief and a quote you can actually plan around.
Color
Color that belongs
A look that belongs to your film, not a preset menu. We match scenes, build a palette, and finish in the formats your platform actually accepts.
How color works
Retouching
Photo finishing
Portraits, products and editorial work, cleaned and balanced without that plastic look. Skin stays skin, texture stays texture, and the client stays happy.
How retouching works
02 — Recent work
A few recent finishes
03 — The studio
One editor. One standard. Yours.
GHEORGHE FRATEA is a one-person post house, run by GHEORGHE FRATEA out of Chișinău, Moldova, working with clients in fourteen countries. Small by choice — because a single careful editor, reachable by email, is usually better than a production line.
We keep the roster small so every project gets the same attention. Everything is written down, scoped, and finished.
- Written brief and scope before any work starts
- Secure file delivery and confidentiality by default
- Feedback in clear notes, not vague adjectives
52Repeat clients
180+Projects
9 yrsIn post
15Countries
04 — How it works
From brief to delivery, in four steps
Brief
Send links or files plus the goal and the date. We answer with the questions that change the quote.
Brief
Send footage or links, tell us the goal and deadline. We confirm scope and ask the two or three questions that matter.
Review
Your notes in plain sentences, each answered with an action.
Handover
Masters, every format you asked for, and project folders you can navigate.
05 — Journal
Thoughts on the craft
The grammar of the match cut
When matching on shape or motion works, and when it becomes a trick the audience notices.
Read the piece
Why your blacks are not your blacks
The crushed blacks you love may be hiding noise, and what to check before committing to them.
Read the piece
Retouching in passes, not in one go
Why a portrait is cleaner when each issue is handled as its own pass.
Read the piece
06 — Client words
Notes clients left behind
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They understood that less is more on our brand film and delivered exactly that.
Pavel SokolovFounder, Orhei
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Three years of raw family footage, one shared drive, one editor who made it into a film we actually watch.
Kristaps OzolsFamily historian, Riga
Quotes reflect individual client experiences. Results vary by project and are not a guarantee of any outcome.
Ready to see your project finished?
Send your brief and the date you need it. You get a fixed quote in writing within one working day.