About · Janus Reel · Boston, MA
Two faces, one door.Raw goes in. Finished comes out.
Janus Reel is a small edit desk on Perkins Street. We cut interviews and webinars for founders and B2B teams who have good footage and no time to sit through it again.
The name is the job: one face looks back at what you shot, the other looks ahead at what people will watch.
The length most of our first conversations are really about.
How it started
Nobody asked for a longer video.
Founders record an hour and post nothing. The footage is fine. The problem is the afternoon it takes to find the ninety seconds worth sharing.
Janus Reel started as that afternoon, handed to someone who does it for a living. Read the transcript first, find the sentence the whole piece hangs on, then build around it. Color, sound and captions are done in the same pass, so nothing comes back needing a second vendor.
The studio stays small on purpose. Work is quoted flat, scoped in writing and invoiced on delivery. We don’t film, so there’s nothing to sell you except the cut.
House rules
What the desk does, and what it leaves alone.
Five habits that explain most of how a Janus Reel edit feels.
- I.
Transcript before timeline
We read the words before touching a clip. A story that works on paper survives the cut.
- II.
Keep the breath
Ums, restarts and dead air go. The pause that shows someone thinking stays, because that’s the part people believe.
- III.
Captions timed by ear
Auto-captions are a first draft. Every line is checked against the audio, including names, product terms and numbers.
- IV.
One number, in writing
The scope names the package, the length and the due date before any work starts. Extras are quoted first, never billed after.
- V.
Footage stays yours
Files are kept for 60 days after delivery for re-cuts, then deleted unless you ask us to hold them.
On the bench
What a day at the desk looks like.
Mornings are for assembly, when the story is easiest to hear. Afternoons are for the fine work: matching cameras, clearing hum, setting the loudness and timing the captions. Notes are answered the same business day.
- Loudness target−16 LUFS
- Exports16:9 · 1:1 · 9:16
- Notes roundsTwo, a third is $85
- Turnaround3, 5 or 10 business days
- BillingInvoice · ACH, check or card
Janus Reel · Boston, MA
Ready to start?
Flat packages, $450 to $1,400. Send the raw footage and a written quote comes back within one business day.
Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm · (203) 912-1196