Test Project
We'll test your eye, your judgment, and how you make an edit work with what you're given.
- 2 videos: polish ours, then make your own
- About 2 hours, no timer
- Submit within 7 days of the test email
- 1.5 GB download, about 3 GB free space to unzip
- Premiere Pro required
- Send both videos, both XMLs and short notes
Read this first
This is a practice exercise, not client work. The footage and brief are provided by Vidpros purely to assess your editing, and your submission will never be used commercially or delivered to a client. In return, the materials remain proprietary to Vidpros: please do not publish, distribute, or use them or your submission in portfolios, social media, or any other public or commercial context.
The Polish Pass
This is a practice brief, not real client work. Splitframe is a fictional brand, and the brief is designed to mimic how our clients typically send in their requests. Nothing you produce here will be used commercially. It is only used to assess your work. You're getting the client's brief and a first-pass timeline from our in-house tool. Take it to client-ready.
Download the files
Do the edit
Test2.mp4 · Test2.xml
Notes
- 1
Start with the brief. The fictional client's request is in the Brief document in the master folder. Treat it the way you would treat a real order.
- 2
You're getting a first pass, not raw footage. Our in-house tool already cut the video and built the graphics, captions and sound. Your job is to take it to client-ready.
- 3
The one constraint. The graphics are flattened .mov files. You can't open or re-render them, so treat them as footage. Everything about how they sit on the timeline is yours: keep, remove, move, resize, retime, trim, mask, crop, layer. The same goes for the audio. Treat this as a first draft. Nothing in it is final.
- 4
Open it in Premiere Pro. Unzip the package, then File › Import the XML. The README inside explains the tracks and how to relink.
- 5
Export video 1: Test.mp4 (1080 x 1920, 28 to 32 seconds) and Test.xml (File › Export › Final Cut Pro XML).
- 1
Come up with your own edit using the client's preferences and instructions.
- 2
Keep the same cut. Start from your finished video 1 timeline. There's no need to pick new moments.
- 3
Remove everything our tool added: the graphics, captions, sound effects and music.
- 4
Build your own graphics, captions and style. Use any tools you like: Premiere Pro, After Effects, templates.
- 5
Choose your own music. For this version the client is open to a different track. Use music you're allowed to use, and keep it under the voice.
- 6
Export video 2: Test2.mp4 (1080 x 1920, 28 to 32 seconds) and Test2.xml (File › Export › Final Cut Pro XML).
About 150 to 400 words covering both videos: what you changed in video 1 and why, with timecodes, anything you would change if you could re-render a graphic, and the choices you made in video 2.
Your notes count. Explain the calls you made. Keeping something and saying why is as valid as changing it.
Submit
Put Test.mp4, Test.xml, Test2.mp4, Test2.xml and your notes in one shared folder (Google Drive, Dropbox or similar) and submit its link. Make sure the folder is accessible before submitting. We'll get back to you with your result within 3 business days.
Submit your work