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João Antero
Video editor · Video essays, long-form and Shorts for YouTube

Beautiful to watch Built to retain

A finish that holds up full screen — and a retention curve that doesn't fall off a cliff in the first minute. I don't trade one for the other.

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Opus I2025
Aloysius

Você não é BURRO, você só está lendo do jeito ERRADO

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Script, editing and colour
Opus II2026

Vertical cuts

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Craft

Beauty that also performs

Video essay and long-form

I find the line of the argument in the middle of all the footage and build an arc that holds for twenty minutes — without losing anyone along the way. Logging comes before any fine cut: getting the order right is what holds retention later.

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Shorts and vertical cuts

They hold from the first second without resorting to frantic cutting: framed for 9:16, with proofread captions and levelled audio. Nothing repurposed from the horizontal cut — every piece is conceived vertical from the start.

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Ongoing channel editing

Continuous editing for channels that publish every week: the same colour, sound and type standard across every video, so the channel looks like a channel and not a pile of loose pieces. Deadlines agreed per batch, with no renegotiating delivery piece by piece.

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About

João Antero, editor

I learned to edit watching the film and the retention graph on the same screen. One tells me whether the cut is beautiful; the other tells me where it lost the viewer — and almost always the two point at the same place.

That is why I do not treat "beautiful video" and "video that works" as separate roads. The shot that moves you is the shot nobody skips.

ToolsDaVinci ResolvePremiere ProAfter Effects

Contact

Tell me what needs cutting

I reply the same working day. Tell me where the video will be published and what it has to provoke — the rest I solve in the edit.