Editing
Structure and pace
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
Quiet edits. Loud results.
We are CRISTINA CIOLAC: a video editing and photo finishing studio that treats your deadline as a promise. Scope in writing, feedback in notes, delivery on schedule.
One editor
You talk directly to the person doing the work.
On-time habit
One email thread from first brief to final files.
Reply by email
Notes in plain sentences, never vague adjectives.
Written scope
Fixed scope, fixed date, no surprise extras.
01 — Services
Three ways we can help your project this month
These three cover nearly every request we receive. Each starts the same way: a written brief and a fixed quote.
Color
Grade & finish
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
Detail work
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.
CRISTINA CIOLAC is a one-person post house, run by CRISTINA CIOLAC 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.
Volume is not the goal. A clear schedule, a written brief, and a delivery date we keep — that is the method.
- Written brief and scope before any work starts
- Secure file delivery and confidentiality by default
- Feedback in clear notes, not vague adjectives
15Countries
42Repeat clients
9 yrsIn post
240+Projects
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.
Quote
A fixed price and a delivery date in writing. Half upfront books your slot; the rest on delivery.
Rough cut
The first cut lands quickly and we refine it in clear, numbered rounds.
Delivery
Final files, requested formats, captions and clean folders — on the day we agreed.
05 — Journal
Thoughts on the craft
Cinematic is a decision, not a preset
Drone shots and grain overlays do not make something cinematic — the decisions around the cut do.
Read the piece
The grade test is a print, not a screen
Why a look that works on a monitor can fail on paper, and how to grade for both.
Read the piece
Skin that still looks like skin at 100% zoom
Texture, structure and edges: the difference between cleanup and plastic.
Read the piece
06 — Client words
A word from recent clients
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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
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The fixed quote meant no awkward invoice conversation at the end. I paid exactly what he said, once.
Milan HorvatFounder, Zagreb
Quotes reflect individual client experiences. Results vary by project and are not a guarantee of any outcome.
Have a finished shoot and an open deadline?
Send the brief and the date. You get a written fixed quote back within 24 hours.