Professional Video Editing Services

Here is how this works in practice. Our team sets up video editing for shoots filmed in Iceland, matching editors and suites to a project's format, genre and timeline. Editing is core edit work and one of the clearest strengths of the country's domestic post sector: an editor in a calibrated Reykjavik suite, with a proxy workflow and good media running, can carry a project from media ingest through assembly and fine cut to picture lock.

Here is the short of it. We work with editors across feature, television, commercial and digital work, and we handle the logistics around them, secure footage transfer, proxy creation, ordered project setup and metadata, so the editor concentrates on the creative craft of building the story. The the capital community is fluent in the major NLE sites including Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro, and handles pro formats from ProRes and DNxHD through to RAW camera files at 4K and beyond.

For shoots with teams abroad, we set up remote joint work using secure cloud review with timestamped feedback and version control, so the edit is directed closely without anyone needing to travel.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland is well suited to keeping the editing phase of a production inside the country. The island's locations have drawn major shoots from 'Interstellar' and 'Rogue One' to 'Game of Thrones'. The same shoots increasingly look to retain edit work in Reykjavik, where the post community is small but highly skilled and supported by an acclaimed national cinema.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The 25 percent reimbursement administered by Film in the country, rising to 35 percent for larger shoots and qualifying television series, applies to eligible Icelandic costs, and editing handled by the capital facilities counts toward the claim. Because editing is mostly the longest phase of post, locating it in the country can represent a major portion of eligible spend. The country's near-100 percent renewable electricity also gives the editing process a low-carbon footprint. The country's EEA-aligned data protection, run by Persannuvernd, supports the secure media handling that shoots and their distributors expect across the cut.