Long recordings to short clips
Locating the few seconds worth cutting inside hours of material, and what the tools can and cannot do for you.
How to turn streams into shorts that make sense on their own
To turn a stream into shorts, pick moments that make sense to someone who never saw the stream, cut each one so the setup is inside the clip…
ReadHow to repurpose a livestream into TikToks and Shorts
To repurpose a livestream into TikToks and Shorts, pick out moments that make sense without the rest of the stream.
ReadHow to turn Twitch VODs into TikToks and YouTube Shorts
The job splits into two halves that have almost nothing to do with each other.
ReadHow to scale video production
Scaling video output means getting more finished pieces per unit of time and money, and there are only four levers that do it: add people…
ReadHow to get more videos out of one shoot
There are two halves to this, and most teams only work on the first.
ReadHow to detect chat spikes in Twitch VODs for clipping
Download the VOD's chat replay as a timestamped log, bucket the messages into fixed intervals of five or ten seconds…
ReadHow to auto-generate clips from YouTube livestreams
There is no route that ends with finished clips and no human in the loop.
ReadHow many videos should we post per week
Post the number you can still hit in a bad month.
ReadDo we need more videos or better videos?
Usually neither, until someone can say where the current videos fail.
ReadHow to find funny moments in old podcast episodes
Start with whatever already marks the funny parts, then find the rest by describing what happened instead of guessing the words.
ReadThe cheapest way to make more video content: cut it from what you already recorded
The cheapest way to make more video content is usually to cut new pieces out of recordings your company has already paid for: webinars…
ReadHow do I turn long videos into shorts?
Every route splits the job the same way. First you decide which seconds are worth using, then you produce a vertical clip out of them.
ReadCan AI make TikToks from Twitch streams?
Partly. AI does the mechanical half well: it can pull a VOD apart, crop to vertical, keep your face centred while you move, burn in captions…
ReadThe fastest way to find highlights in a 6-hour stream
The fastest pass is the one that starts from marks something already left behind.
ReadHow to automatically edit long videos into short clips
You can automate most of the mechanical work and none of the judgment.
ReadHow to turn a 6-hour stream into short clips
The cutting is the easy half. Trimming a 90-second clip out of a six-hour recording takes a couple of minutes in any editor you already know.
ReadHow to find viral moments in long videos
You cannot find a viral moment, because viral is a fact about the audience, decided after publication.
ReadCan AI find highlights in long videos automatically?
Partly. AI is reliable at finding events that leave a signature in the audio or video: laughter, applause, a volume spike, a scene change…
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