Guides.Five real jobs.
Not a feature tour. Five kinds of footage people actually bring, the settings that suit each, and the mistakes worth avoiding. Open the one that looks like yours.
A game with no commentary
A 2 to 3 hour broadcast or sideline recording. Maybe a commentator, maybe just crowd and whistle. This is the case transcript-based tools cannot do at all.
Read the guide- Shape
- Vertical (9:16)
- Reframe
- Follow - tracks the ball carrier, not a face
- Clips
- 8 to 12 for a full game
- Captions
- Bold, or off if there is no commentary worth reading
A two hour episode
One or more people talking. Plenty of transcript to work with, so the risk is not finding moments - it is picking ones that stand alone out of context.
Read the guide- Shape
- Vertical (9:16)
- Reframe
- Face for a single speaker, Fit for two
- Clips
- 5 to 8
- Captions
- Bold, or Clean for a slower conversation
3 hours down to six clips
A long unedited session where most of the runtime is not worth anything and you cannot remember where the good parts were. A session longer than the cap gets split into parts and sent as separate jobs.
Read the guide- Shape
- Vertical (9:16)
- Reframe
- Follow, or Manual if your camera is in a fixed corner
- Clips
- 6 to 10
- Captions
- Bold
Pay for the game, not the pre-show
A three-hour broadcast where the part you care about starts twenty minutes in and ends before the panel discussion. Most of the runtime should never be processed at all.
Read the guide- Only this part
- 0:22:00 - 2:55:00
- Footage type
- Action
- Find these moments
- "every scoring play and every turnover"
- Clip length
- Under 30s
Cutting from timestamps you wrote down
You made notes while watching, or your platform already logged the moments. Detection is skipped entirely, so the start-up charge drops to the delivery and the renders, and the source bills at the anchored rate.
Read the guide- Shape
- Whatever you are posting to
- Reframe
- Follow for action, Face for talking
- Clips
- One per timestamp
- Captions
- On, if you want them - transcription is billed when it runs