Business & lifestyle editing style
Edit like Iman Gadzhi.
Skip the timeline.
Dark, cinematic and deliberate — luxury b-roll breathing between talking-head lines, condensed serif captions, and a grade that sits in the shadows. Shorty studies a reference in this style and rebuilds it from your own footage.
Built for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
CUT WITH INTENT.
01 / THE STYLE
The Iman Gadzhi editing style, decomposed
The Iman Gadzhi editing style is one of the most copied looks in the business-creator niche, and it is deliberately hard to fake with stock templates: the effect comes from restraint. Cuts are slower than the average short, captions appear only when a line deserves weight, and the colour grade does most of the storytelling. Recreating it by hand means grading every clip dark without crushing skin tones, hunting for b-roll moments worth slowing down, and typesetting captions that feel expensive.
- PacingMeasured talking-head segments broken by slow cinematic b-roll interludes — the edit breathes instead of sprinting.
- CaptionsSparse, bold, condensed type that lands on key phrases only, never subtitling every word.
- ColourA dark, desaturated grade with deep shadows and controlled highlights — the signature moody look.
- SoundAmbient, understated tracks under speech, swelling only for the b-roll moments.
02 / HOW TO EDIT LIKE IMAN GADZHI
From your camera roll to an Iman Gadzhi-style cut.
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Pick a reference in this style
Upload a short video whose pacing, captions and look you want to match — any edit in the Iman Gadzhi style you admire. Shorty analyses how it is cut, captioned, graded and scored.
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Add your footage
Drop in your own videos and images, plus an optional music track. Shorty scans them for usable moments, faces and speech. Your files stay private to your account.
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Get the finished video
Shorty plans, edits and renders the video in the reference's own format — vertical 9:16, 4:5, square, 16:9 or cinematic 21:9 — ready to download and post.
03 / QUESTIONS
Editing like Iman Gadzhi with AI — common questions
What footage works best for a Gadzhi-style edit?
A talking-head take plus any slower lifestyle b-roll — a city at night, a desk, a car, a gym. Shorty finds the moments worth slowing down and grades everything into the same dark palette.
Do I need to grade my footage first?
No. Upload flat or phone footage; the colour treatment is applied during the edit to match the reference's moody look.
Can I use my own reference video?
Yes — pick any short in this style you admire, upload it as the reference, and Shorty rebuilds its pacing, captions and grade from your clips.
SHORTY / READY WHEN YOU ARE
Your footage. The Iman Gadzhi cut.
No timeline required.
Open Shorty
04 / MORE STYLES
Other editing styles to try
Shorty is an independent AI video editing tool. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Iman Gadzhi. The name is used only to describe an editing style the way editors and tutorials commonly refer to it. Videos are always built from footage you own.