What we need from you before we start editing

Short answer: We need your digital files, your logo and brand colors, and a clear sense of the message. A script helps, but an outline or a phone call is enough to start. Send more raw material than you think we need. From there the corporate video editing process is ours to run.

The short list of what to send

Most of this you already have. Gather it in one place and the first week goes fast.

• Video files. Anything you own, in whatever shape it is in. Conference recordings, product demos, webinar captures, phone clips, site walkthroughs, supplier footage.
• Photos. Team shots, project photos, product images, headshots.
• Brand assets. Logo files, brand colors, fonts, and a style guide if one exists.
• Screen material. Slide decks, dashboards, software recordings, charts and data you want on screen.
• Text. A script if you have one. If not, send bullet points or the deck you present from.
• Reference. One or two videos whose tone you like, and one you do not.

Everything comes to us as digital files. Nothing gets shipped and nobody travels. If old material matters to the story, it works fine as long as someone has already turned it into files.

The brief we actually need

Files are the easy part. The brief decides whether the video lands.

Tell us four things. Who watches this. What you want them to think or do afterward. Where it gets posted. How long it should run.

That is enough to build a structure. Structure is where most corporate video goes wrong, not the edit. A five minute piece that wanders costs the same as a three minute piece that works.

If you are not sure of the answers, say so. We will ask questions until the shape is clear.

How the corporate video editing process runs from there

Once your material and brief are in, the work moves in a set order.

• Review and selection. We go through everything and pull what is usable. Clients are often surprised by how much is there.
• Structure. We agree on the argument and the order before anything is cut.
• Assembly. A rough cut timed to the script or voiceover.
• Motion graphics. Titles, lower thirds, animated logos, data on screen, callouts.
• Stock where it helps. We source licensed footage and images to cover real gaps, your own material first.
• Color and sound. Grading so a dozen sources look like one film, plus audio cleanup and levels.
• Captions and delivery. Burned in or as a separate file, with versions cut for each platform.

You can see more of the scope on our Services page, and examples of finished work in the Portfolio.

Things that are nice to have, not required

Do not hold the project up waiting for these.

• A voiceover recording from your team. Useful when the message should come from a named person. We can also arrange professional narration.
• A finished script. Helpful, but we can work from an outline.
• An on camera presenter. If nobody is available to record, an AI presenter video can carry the narration instead. That is often the cleanest answer for training and internal updates.
• Subtitle text. We can transcribe it ourselves.

Our corporate video presentations page shows how these pieces fit together in a finished presentation.

Music, and who is responsible for it

Music comes up early, so here is the plain version.

We offer royalty-free tracks from our own library as a paid add-on. Those come with the usage permit you need for business use.

We do not clear or license famous or commercial songs. If you want a specific well-known track, licensing it legally is your responsibility. Describe the mood you want instead and we will find a track that fits.

What we cannot do with your files

We do not film. There are no crews and no shoots. If the video's whole purpose is a person speaking to camera and no such recording exists, someone on your side needs to record it. We will tell you what to capture and how, then build the finished piece around it. There is more on that in what corporate video production includes when nobody films.

If your files are badly damaged, very low resolution or noisy, and the goal is to improve the media itself rather than edit it, our sister studio Pixel 360 Media handles that kind of enhancement.

And if there is genuinely nothing usable in the archive, we will say so early rather than pad the cut with stock.

Send it the simple way

Put everything in one shared folder or cloud link. Name files loosely by topic if you can. Add a short note listing what each folder holds.

Then tell us what the video is for. We will come back with what can be made from it, what is missing, and what it would cost.

Dvideo Productions is located in Westchester, NY, and we work with companies nationwide through a fully remote process.