I turn dense historical stories into short-form videos engineered for one thing: watch-time. Hooks that stop the scroll, pacing that holds to the last second, and cinematic visuals that make people feel it.
Scroll-stopping openings and a script structure built to carry a viewer to the final second.
Pacing, hard cuts and tension curves tuned for watch-time — the metric that actually pays.
Clean, bold on-screen text and subtitles styled to match the tone of the story.
Voiceover cleanup, music and sound design that sets the mood and drives emotion.
Sourcing and generating period-accurate imagery and B-roll for historical & documentary pieces.
High-contrast, curiosity-driven thumbnails and title cards that earn the click.
Most editors can make a clip look nice. I build videos people finish — with over 20 videos past 50K views and single stories taken beyond a million. I've proven it on my own channels.
— Arafat, based in Dubai · working with creators worldwide
Open to freelance projects and ongoing editing for history, documentary & faceless creators.