Muhammad Usman Qamar is Founder & CEO of editvideo.io, a subscription video editing service that has worked with 1,800+ clients across the US, Canada, and Australia. He built the company from launch in 2019 to a 45-person team and $650K+ in current annual recurring revenue.
I didn't start Editvideo.io because I loved video editing. I started it because I couldn't find anyone reliable to do it, and I got tired of that being a bottleneck.
AI can cut a video fast. What it can't do is know when fixing one thing just broke another, and that's the part turning full AI editing into an endless prompting loop instead of a shortcut.
We ran a 315-person study testing whether people could tell AI edited video from human edited video. The group we expected to be hardest to fool turned out to be the easiest.
The creators who last aren't the most talented or the most consistent. They're the ones who figured out, usually the hard way, that a one-person operation has a ceiling.
