CUTLIST
N°01Streams and long sessions

Six 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.

Start with
Shape
Vertical (9:16)
Reframe
Follow, or Manual if your camera is in a fixed corner
Clips
6 to 10
Captions
Bold
  1. 01

    Upload the whole session

    Long sources are exactly what this is for. Cost scales with length, so check the estimate on the pricing page first if it is very long.

  2. 02

    If your camera sits in one corner, use Manual

    Follow tracks motion, which on a screen-share is the screen rather than you. Manual lets you place the crop over your camera and leave it there.

  3. 03

    Skim the scores, not the clips

    Anything at 85 or above is worth watching. Below 70 is usually the tool being generous - delete freely, it costs nothing to discard.

  4. 04

    Re-cut the good ones tighter

    Stream moments are usually longer than they need to be. Trimming ten seconds off the front is often the difference between a clip that holds and one that does not.

What you end up with

A handful of clips from a session you would otherwise never have gone back through.

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