LegalBytes
Long-form legal explainers, cut for YouTube and short-form. Structure, pacing and graphics that keep dense topics watchable.
Long-form education2024 →
Video producer · Editor · Creative technologist
Every edit carries the miles®
Fifteen years of shooting, cutting, grading and sound, often all on the same job. Now I build my own AI tools around that craft, so the work looks like nobody else's.
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LegalBytesAllianzD'AddarioHolosSarawak State GovernmentUKASBNI KuchingHasbullah Syarah
Not AI-made. AI made mine.
Most AI visuals look the same because everyone uses the same apps. I don't. I set the trend, I don't follow it.
Fifteen years of craft, multiplied by tools I built myself.
My AI runs on my own machines, trained on my own taste. It takes the repetitive work, so every hour I spend goes into story, pace and feel.
- 01Private, local modelsAI that runs in my studio, not in a public app. Client footage stays in the building.
- 02Custom edit pipelinesAutomated rough cuts for talking-head content, tuned to my own cutting rhythm.
- 03Built for SarawakOffline speech recognition for Sarawak Malay and Iban, for live stage cues and subtitles.
Template AISame look as everyoneZaid's own stack
Selected work
Channels, brands, governments and one-man productions. Scroll the stack.
Allianz · D'Addario · Indigo Precious Metals
Insurance, music and gold bullion: brand films edited for the creative agency Holos.
Brand filmsAgency work
PCDS2030 & Visi Premier 2030
State strategy films for the Sarawak Government and UKAS, cut for public audiences.
Public sectorSarawak
One-man productions
Wushu Campaign, the Long Long New Year dance video and BNI Kuching INW 2024. I was the whole crew, including an indoor drone flown in place of a crane.
Self-funded & event filmsKuching
Brand & event design
Identities, campaigns and LED stage visuals for national celebrations, built around the same stories the films tell.
DesignLive events
Hasbullah Syarah
Engineering explainers for a Sarawak creator. I built the house style he now carries forward on his own.
Technical education2025 – 2026
Where it's made
Four screens, two machines, one editor. The site, the edit and the AI pipeline all run from this room in Sri Aman.
The numbers
LegalBytes channel performance while I've been lead editor, since May 2024.
0views since May 20243.6M watch hours · +74K subscribers
0videos over 300K viewsSince May 2024
up to0still watching at 0:30On the top-performing intros
0views in 2026 so farUp 52% on all of 2025
Source: YouTube Studio, as of 13 Oct 2026. Channel results, not results credited to my work alone.
Now in progress · Sri Aman
Suara kita, bahasa kita.
A community project teaching technology to understand Iban and Bahasa Sarawak, recorded with the people of Sri Aman and kept in Sarawak.
See the project →What I ship
From the first cut to the full brand, for five long-term clients at a time.
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Post-production
Editing in DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro, colour, sound mixing and finishing.
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AI-assisted workflows
Custom, private pipelines that speed up the edit without flattening the style.
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Production & drone
Cinematic camera work, aerial and indoor drone, event coverage.
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Brand & stage visuals
Identity, campaigns, LED stage content, scripts and storyboards.
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