Saahil Khan - Video Editing Portfolio - ShotCut

Editorial Decision Walkthrough

Internal Security Training [HeyGen]

• Shotcut has no native nested sequences, which meant a 21-track morph composite sitting loose in the master timeline was a maintenance problem, not an editing canvas. Each complex composite became a separate .mlt sub-project, imported back via File > Open MLT XML as Clip — Premiere's nesting by another name — so the master stayed readable while each sub-project remained independently editable.

• That architecture made the harder cut workable. Two static medium-wide shots of the presenter had to join without a visible splice, and with no B-roll or alternate takes available, the morph transition had to function as the cut itself. The incoming text panel animates onto the right side of the frame at the exact frame the splice fires on the left — Murch's eye-trace applied literally. The bento-grid holds the avatar at the left reading position at a scale that sustains face-to-face contact, with text panels staggered right and lower-left to distribute cognitive load across time instead of compressing it into a single frame.
  

Marketing Video [HeyGen]

• The piece opens in the visual register of premium live-action corporate production: simulated shallow depth of field, motivated lighting, and Z-depth typography sharing the same spatial plane as the environment. At the 14-second mark, a continuous Z-axis pullback scales the opening footage into HeyGen's own timeline interface, and the presenter reveals she is an AI avatar generated by the software the ad is selling.
  

• Most software promos break at the handoff between the talking-head setup and the screen-recording payoff. The spatial continuity here keeps the eye on the presenter through the reveal, so the relationship between the human element and the interface lands without a voiceover seam. Motion graphics and Z-depth typography originated in After Effects; editorial assembly, timing, and integration of the pullback sequence were executed in Shotcut.
  

Selected Work — Cross-Platform Practice

Music Video — Faranak Shahroozi, "My Way"

• Shahroozi's physical performance is the visual anchor. The sweeping hand crossovers, the delicate strikes, the subtle body sway give the frame enough movement to hold the eye while non-linear lifestyle B-roll drifts above it without losing spatial orientation.

• The performance footage serves as the shadow-rich base layer, with the B-roll composited above using Lighten and Screen blend modes, so brighter, sunlit and fire-lit frames settle into the darker regions below.

Instagram Ad [ASOS €500 Voucher Giveaway]

• This is a 9:16 promotional video for an ASOS €500 voucher giveaway, built around persistent center-weighted typographic anchoring. The value proposition is locked in the center of the frame for the entire duration, functioning as a stable focal point in a sound-off mobile environment while a rapid-fire fashion montage runs behind it.

• A viewer who never unmutes still needs to receive the full call-to-action, so the value proposition anchors the top of the visual hierarchy for the entire duration as a persistent typographic block. That stable focal point made it possible to run fashion B-roll at an aggressive, high-BPM cut pace without the edit reading as fatiguing.