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Tips, guides, and stories for creators who want to spend less time editing and more time filming.
Only One Content Format Has an Automated System, And It Starts Too Late
Podcast clipping is the only content format with a real automated system, and it only starts once someone has already produced the episode. Every other format is still hand-sorted.
How to Edit a Day of Street Interviews Without Watching All the Footage
Forty to eighty clips, no master file, and every one of them contains the same words. Here is how to cut a day of street interviews without scrubbing all of it.
What It Actually Costs to Produce 100 Videos a Month
An honest breakdown of what 100 videos a month costs: editors, selects passes, direction time, tooling, and the sorting line that never appears on a call sheet.
Why Your Podcast Clips Look Generic (It's Not the Captions)
Every clipping tool produces the same clip because they all start from the same input and reach for the same stock. The fix is not a better caption preset.
The Batch Shoot Day Playbook: 100 Files In, 15 Videos Out
How to run a batch shoot day that actually turns into published videos: how many concepts to book, what to slate, what inserts to name in the brief, and what happens after everyone goes home.
Stop Testing One Hook at a Time
Paid teams have tested creative in parallel for a decade. Organic still ships one hook and waits. The editing labor that made variants expensive is mostly gone.
How to Run a Clipping Program Without Diluting Your Brand
Paying clippers per thousand views scales output and scales inconsistency with it. What to write down, what to enforce in the tool, and what to leave to the clipper.
Clik vs Overlap: Same Category, Different Starting Point
Overlap builds a node-based pipeline for one long recording at a time. Clik starts from the unsorted batch. Same category, different assumption about what you hand it.
Clik vs Descript: Editing One Video vs. Producing Many
Descript edits one video by editing its transcript. Clik takes an unsorted batch and produces many. The difference is what you hand it, not which is better.
Clik vs Opus Clip: One File In, or Your Whole Shoot?
Opus Clip starts from one finished file. Clik starts from the shoot. If you have a produced episode, the difference is small. If you have a folder of raw clips, it is the whole thing.
Clik vs Eddie AI: A Rough Cut for Your Editor, or Finished Videos for Your Team?
Eddie AI hands your editor a rough cut to finish. Clik hands your team finished videos. Two different answers to who does the last mile.