At a glance
| DoneEdit | Kapwing | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Done-for-you editing service | Online AI editor |
| Who edits | DoneEdit (AI-assisted, human-checked) | You |
| Where | Your files, our editors | In your browser, with your team |
| Best for | Short talking-head videos | Collaborative and prompt-based editing |
| Price | $27 founding, then $67 per video | See Kapwing for current plans |
What Kapwing is
Kapwing is a browser-based editor built for creating, editing and repurposing content for different channels. Its homepage highlights generating full video projects from a single prompt. Because it runs online, teams can work on the same projects without passing files around.
Where Kapwing is the better choice
- Team collaboration on the same projects.
- Fast social formats and resizing for different platforms.
- Starting from a prompt when you don't have footage.
- You want hands-on control.
Where DoneEdit is the better choice
- You have raw footage of yourself and just want it finished.
- No learning curve.
- A person checks the result before you get it.
What DoneEdit is (and isn't)
DoneEdit is a done-for-you editing service run by Vadim Soin. You send one raw talking-head video and get back a finished edit with captions, punch-in zooms, b-roll and music within 48 hours. AI does the repetitive work and a person checks the result. Two revisions are included, and if the second revision still misses, you get a refund. Files are deleted after 30 days.
It's deliberately narrow: one English speaker, up to 10 minutes of raw footage and up to 5 finished minutes. It doesn't edit multi-speaker podcasts or long-form videos. The founding price is $27 per video for the first 20 customers, then $67, with thumbnails for +$10. DoneEdit is new, so we don't publish customer results yet.
Worked example
A small business with a social manager might use Kapwing to make weekly posts in-house. The founder's monthly 4-minute update video, though, might go to DoneEdit, so the social manager isn't stuck cutting a long talking-head recording.
Testing Kapwing as a team
Kapwing's strength is collaboration: several people working on the same project in the browser, plus repurposing content for different channels and generating projects from a prompt. Test it the way a team would actually use it. Have one person cut a video and another review it in the same project, then resize the result for a second platform.
If the hand-offs feel smooth, Kapwing is probably the right home for your team's social content. If nobody on the team has time to cut talking-head recordings at all, a tool won't fix that.
Who should own the talking-head videos?
In many small companies the founder or a subject expert records the videos, and whoever runs social ends up editing them. That's where things stall. A practical split:
- Kapwing for the social manager's day-to-day posts, resizes and prompt-generated projects.
- DoneEdit for the founder's or expert's talking-head recordings (one speaker, up to 10 raw minutes), returned finished in 48 hours for $27 (first 20 customers) or $67.
The social manager then repurposes DoneEdit's finished video in Kapwing instead of cutting the raw footage.
A week in a small team, two ways
Without a split: the founder records three talking-head videos on Monday. The social manager, who also handles posts, newsletters and ads, opens Kapwing to cut them. By Thursday one is done and the others slip to next week.
With a split: the founder uploads the three raw recordings to DoneEdit on Monday. Within 48 hours they come back finished, with captions, zooms, b-roll and music. The social manager spends their Kapwing time resizing and repurposing the finished videos for each channel, which is the part Kapwing's collaboration and repurposing tools are good at.
Which version matches your week depends on how much editing time your team really has.
Decision checklist
- A team that edits together? Kapwing.
- Need videos without footage? Kapwing's prompt-based projects.
- Have raw talking-head footage and no time? DoneEdit.
Bottom line
Kapwing is for teams who want to edit and repurpose together in a browser. DoneEdit is for taking the raw talking-head edit off the team's plate. If editing is shared work you're happy to do, choose Kapwing. If it's a bottleneck, outsource the talking-head part and keep Kapwing for the rest.