The Editing Margin Curve: Why Accepted Deliverables Beat Render Speed

Video editing tools are sold on speed, but agency margin moves on the ratio of accepted deliverables to editor hours. AI-assisted cutting, captioning, and silence removal shift where labor goes: less scrubbing, more review, and review is the cost that scales with client count. The agencies that win measure correction time on the same brief before they sign a retainer, not the vendor's headline multiplier.