Costs in PKR
Video editing rates in Pakistan
Freelance video editing in Pakistan runs PKR 1,500 to 6,000 for a short and PKR 4,000 to 15,000 for a ten-minute video. Inside our Starter package eight finished shorts cost PKR 15,000, about PKR 1,875 each with thumbnail, captions, SEO and posting included. Footage length drives price, not runtime.
The numbers
| Job | Observed range (PKR) | Usual turnaround | What pushes it to the top of the range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vertical short under 60 seconds | 1,500 – 6,000 | 24–48 hours | Burned-in Urdu subtitles, motion graphics |
| Talking head, 5–10 minutes | 4,000 – 15,000 | 2–4 days | B-roll sourcing, colour grade |
| Multi-camera podcast episode | 8,000 – 30,000 | 3–6 days | Audio repair, ten Shorts cut from it |
| Product or ad film, 30–60 seconds | 12,000 – 45,000 | 4–7 days | Sound design, three-round revisions |
| Wedding highlight film | 25,000 – 90,000 | 2–4 weeks | Same-day edit, multiple song licences |
Editors who take remote work from Gulf or US agencies price at the top of every row and often above it.
Figures as of August 2026. Source: Rates quoted to Islamabad Digital Marketing by freelance editors in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, 2026..
| Package | Edits included | Effective cost per edit (PKR) |
|---|---|---|
| Starter (PKR 15,000) | 8 shorts | 1,875 |
| Growth (PKR 35,000) | 4 long-form + 12 shorts | 2,190 |
| Pro (PKR 70,000+) | Near-unlimited, fair use | Under 2,000 at normal volume |
The retainer figure includes thumbnail, captions, title, description and the actual upload; a freelance edit fee does not.
Figures as of August 2026. Source: Islamabad Digital Marketing price list, August 2026..
What these numbers actually mean
Price tracks the footage an editor has to sit through, not the length of what comes out. Two minutes shot in one clean take is a quick job. Forty minutes of handheld phone footage from a shop floor, cut to ninety seconds with Urdu captions, is not — somebody has to watch all forty minutes first. Before you ask for a rate, tell the editor how many minutes of raw material there are and whether the audio was recorded in a room with a ceiling fan on.
Ask what happens during load-shedding before you ask about price. An editor rendering a long timeline on a laptop with no UPS loses the whole render when the power goes, and that turns into a missed Friday post rather than a line on the invoice. Editors working out of Bahria Town or DHA with an inverter and a proper desktop charge more and miss fewer deadlines. That gap is worth paying for if your posting schedule matters to you.
Run the per-edit maths against the weeks you actually published. A freelancer at PKR 3,000 a short looks cheaper than our PKR 1,875, until you count the two weeks in exam season when nothing went out, the titles you wrote yourself at midnight, and the thumbnails you gave up on. A retainer is not buying you cheaper edits. It is buying you the edits happening whether or not the editor has a wedding to attend that week.
About these numbers
Video editing rates in Pakistan
Freelance video editing in Pakistan runs PKR 1,500 to 6,000 for a short and PKR 4,000 to 15,000 for a ten-minute video. Inside our Starter package eight finished shorts cost PKR 15,000, about PKR 1,875 each with thumbnail, captions, SEO and posting included. Footage length drives price, not runtime.
Where do these figures come from?
Rates quoted to Islamabad Digital Marketing by freelance editors in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, 2026. Islamabad Digital Marketing price list, August 2026. Everything is dated so you can see how current it is, and we update the tables rather than quietly leaving old numbers up.
Is advertising budget included in any of these prices?
No. Wherever a management or service fee is quoted here, ad spend is separate and paid directly to the platform. We never mark up an ad budget and neither should anyone else.
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