Cut Theory
2025Short-form / Social

Short-form that survives the scroll

A monthly pack of vertical cutdowns — engineered hooks, clean captions, motion punch — feeding three platforms.

Orbit Fitness — Short-form that survives the scroll — frame
00:00:34
CLIENTOrbit Fitness
ROLEEdit · Captions · Sound design
TOOLSPremiere Pro · After Effects
RUNTIME00:00:34
THE BRIEF

What they needed

Orbit had a library of long workout footage and a thin social presence. They wanted a high-volume short-form pipeline that didn’t look like everyone else’s auto-captioned clips.

THE EDIT

How I approached it

  1. 01

    Mined the long footage for "hookable" moments and built a per-clip hook in the first second.

  2. 02

    Designed a custom caption + kinetic-keyword style instead of stock auto-captions.

  3. 03

    Cut 12 verticals a month with platform-specific safe areas and export presets.

  4. 04

    A/B tested two hooks per clip and reported the winners back monthly.

BEFORE / AFTER

The breakdown

Hook
BeforeSlow intro / talking head
After1-second motion hook + keyword caption
Watch-through
Before21%
After46% avg
Output
Before2–3 clips / month
After12 clips / month, 3 platforms
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