Editing
Rhythm and delivery
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
Editing that disappears into the story.
At NICOLAI BOLEA, we edit video and finish photography the way we would want it done for ourselves: careful cuts, honest color, and a delivery date that means something.
Reply by email
You know the price before a single frame is cut.
Written brief
Notes in plain sentences, never vague adjectives.
Fixed quotes
Your footage stays yours. Always.
On-time habit
Every project starts from a written brief, agreed before work.
01 — Services
Three ways we can help your project this month
No hidden fees and no mystery dates. Each service starts with a written brief and a fixed quote you can plan around.
Color
Match, balance, 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
Photo finishing
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
A one-person post house, run properly.
NICOLAI BOLEA is a one-person post house, run by NICOLAI BOLEA out of Bălți, 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.
We don't chase volume. We take on a handful of projects each month, write everything down, and finish what we start. That's the whole method.
- Written brief and scope before any work starts
- Secure file delivery and confidentiality by default
- Feedback in clear notes, not vague adjectives
15Countries
50Repeat clients
3 yrsIn post
170+Projects
04 — How it works
The process, laid out plainly
Quote
Fixed price and committed date in writing; half upfront books the slot.
Brief
Send links or files plus the goal and the date. We answer with the questions that change the quote.
Cut
You get a first cut for feedback, then structured revision rounds until the brief is met.
Deposit
Half the fixed price books your slot. The rest is due when you receive the finished files.
05 — Journal
Thoughts on the craft
Rhythm is the editor’s handwriting
The patterns in your cutting that clients can feel even when they cannot name them.
Read the piece
Match scenes to each other, not to a preset
The habit that makes a grade look like a filter, and the fix that makes it look like a film.
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
Notes clients left behind
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He graded a night shoot that everyone warned was unusable. It looks lit, not saved.
Teodora EnacheFirst AD, Bucharest
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The retouching kept the wrinkles that make a portrait believable and removed the ones that made it unflattering.
Katrin EhlersEditorial photographer, Berlin
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 your brief and the date you need it. You get a fixed quote in writing within one working day.